I have recently investigated an accident which turned out not to be has the employee described it, the employee stated on the investigation report that he was wearing is company issue safety glasses when the accident happened and that the glasses where the cause for not being wrap around glasses. I watched countless hours of CCTV and actually found out that the employee did not wear is safety glasses at all on the day in question and was in fact grinding metal straps with no safety glasses on. I asked the employee if there was anything else he was doing on that day that could have caused the injury other than the scenario he described and the answers was "no" the employee has now resigned his post and put a claim in against the company. Has anyone else dealt with bogus claims and can offer me advice on how to now approach this? Advice please

At the end of the day, it is your insurer's decision on how to handle this. Whilst the IP appears to have been the author of his own misfortune, it does not mean that a claim against the company will fail. A lot is going to hinge on the level of supervision on the shop floor and the training the IP received over use of PPE. Certainly appears to be a high level of contributory negligence but what were your supervisors doing about it?

Just to clarify further, it was the manager of the garage area that has brought this claim, so surely a time served, competent mechanic should understand PPE the use of and what must be worn when undertaking certain tasks.

I succesfully defended a claim against a former employee, with the help of facebook. It is suprising what some people put on their accounts, especialy when putting in a personal injury claim for a back injury.