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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Teachers secure millions in personal injury claims in 2010  Teachers secured millions in personal injury and workplace accident compensation claims last year. Awards were secured for a range of incidents: some as innocuous as slipping on a grape, for which the claimant received £200,000, while others resulted from injuries sustained breaking up fights between pupils. NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates noted that while compensation is important, it is often "cold comfort" for those who have had their professional career ended, or who are "irreparably damaged". She added: "What this figure illustrates is the cost to the public purse of employers' poor or discriminatory employment practices and failure to pay due regard to health and safety in the workplace. "Behind each of these cases is a person whose life has been changed through serious injury or unfair dismissal from their chosen career." Recent research by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers suggested that a fear of personal injury claims is preventing some teachers from taking children out on school trips. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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