Personal Injury Claim

On the whole starting a personal injury claim in the England & Wales will involve no cost to the person who has received the injury as all legal costs should be paid by the third party i.e. the person responsible for the injury in the first place should the compensation claim be successful.

In the event that your accident injury claim is un-successful then you will have the benefit of a no fee arrangement. Which means that you may not have to pay any legal costs but this is dependent on the type of legal insurance policy which is obtained?

Not all accident claims can have this no fees arrangement, but these tend to include only personal injuries that have occurred from medical negligence as the compensation claims process in these types of injury accidents is lengthy and sometimes speculative.

Personal injury compensation is not a lottery win, an injury claim should only be made where accident injuries have occurred that have caused you pain and suffering and/or financial loss.

• Drivers involved in Road Traffic Accidents
• Passengers involved in Road Traffic Accidents
• Motor Cyclists involved in Road Traffic Accidents
• Cyclists involved in Road Traffic Accidents
• Pedestrians involved in Road Traffic Accidents
• Accidents and Injuries at Work, failure of employers to adhere to Health & Safety laws
• Slips & Trips on flags, pavements, spillages on floors etc
• Vicarious Liability
• Product Liability
• Criminal Injuries Compensation
• Professional Negligence

Compensation will not be paid out for omissions unless those omissions relate to a breach of duty and that duty has to be established and furthermore a causal link will need to be established for an action to arise. The following are examples of what does not constitute an injury for the purposes of Personal Injury claim;

• Thus one will not be able to seek redress where a Doctor prescribed a wrong drugs but pharmacist noticed and then rectified as no injury arose from this omission, if the medication was then dispensed and taken that could give rise to a Negligence action.
• You may cut on your hand on another’s wall but that hand heals quickly and there is no obvious damage bar the superficial cuts, here there is a personal injury but the question is how does it affect the quality of your life or how it impedes your life, if it does not then it will not be an injury.

Just because you have been injured in one shape or another does not mean you have a claim and then be eligible for accident compensations no matter how good we are.

The Golden Rule is for a Personal injury claim to be successful evidence from an injury specialist will be needed, to start the process as Doctor will do but a Consultant maybe has to be used.

Any compensation figures are based on the actual suffering and its long term consequences and we will advise you from the outset what the likely value of the claim maybe. However a more definite figure will be calculated once the exact injury, the period of recovery and any future impairment become apparent after seeing an injuries specialist.