Accident - prone man faces eight fraud charges over slip and trip compensation claims
Tuesday August 24, 2010 at 5:31pm
Nathan Williams, 38, of Dean Street, Soho who claimed slip and trip injury compensation from eight London local authorities-including Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Westminster, Wandsworth, Southwark and Lewisham after apparently suffering injuries following falls on pavements is facing fraud charges.
He has been charged with attempting to obtain money by deception from eight local councils and is due to appear before City of Westminster magistrates’ court on 1st September 2010.
Between 2007 and 2008, he claimed to have suffered a broken hip and ankle, knee foot, and bruised testicles.
His first compensation claim followed a fall on a broken pavement in Boleyn road, Hackney in November 2007. The second slip and trip compensation claim followed nine months later when he complained of an injury to his hand and foot.
The Coalition Government is said to target No Win No fee claims management companies’ deals as Ministers claim that many of such claims are fuelled by “No Win No Fee” lawyers, a Local Government Association spokesman said.