Well – me personally, I do. But what I’m talking about here is the common question accident victims ask me when they are looking for advice as to whether they are entitled to make a claim for compensation.
The best way to find out if you have a potentially winning claim is to speak with an expert at a specialist personal injury law firm. The guide below will hopefully help you out on your quest to find out if you are entitled to receive what could be thousands of pounds in compensation for any injuries you have sustained in an accident.
Who’s at Fault?
This is the first question to ask yourself. If the accident was caused by the fault of someone else, then you may have a claim. Even if you were partly to blame, so long as someone else, whether it’s a person or a company, is also responsible for the accident occurring, you should be entitled to make a claim.
If the accident was entirely your fault, then it’s likely you do not have a claim.
A couple of examples of accident where you were likely not at fault:
- Someone drives in to the back of your car, or pulls out of a side road and hits your car. In any road accident, if the other driver involved was at fault, you can make a claim for compensation.
- If your employers fail to train you properly in the use of dangerous equipment and you end up hurting yourself, or if they fail to provide you with adequate personal protective equipment, for example if the gloves they provide you with are not adequate enough and fail to protect you from hot liquids, then you can make a claim through your employers insurance.
- If you slip over in a shop or a supermarket and no signage or adequate inspection regimes were in place to prevent the floor from becoming a hazard to you, you can make a claim against the company responsible.
- If you fall down a manhole because the cover is defective or is not secured properly, you can make a claim against the local council or company responsible for the upkeep of the manhole and the cover.
Are You Injured?
If the accident has caused you injuries, whether it’s muscular (tendons, ligaments, whiplash), fractures, or cuts, you can make a claim for the pain and suffering you have to endure as a result of the accident. The length, severity, and impact of the suffering on your life is usually what dictates the value of your claim. The more seriously you are injured, the more the claim is generally worth.
Will My Claim Be Successful?
For your claim to win we must prove that the person responsible (i.e. the person or company you are pursuing the claim against) are attributable to your accident and subsequent injuries through their negligence. Only if negligence can be proved is your claim normally successful. The other side, usually through their insurers or solicitors, will probably try and defend a claim if they believe they have a good chance of successfully defending it. We as solicitors must ask ourselves whether we believe the risk of taking your claim on is worth us pursuing it for you on a No Win No Fee basis. If we believe we have more chance of winning it then losing it, we will likely be able to help you out.
Under our Genuine No Win No Fee, you never pay a penny and you never incur a deduction from your payout – it’s the safe way of making a claim!
To find out if you have a potentially successful claim for compensation, give us a call today for a free, no obligation chat about your options for a case.
