Most solicitors take 25% from your payout – we don’t!
The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 is an important piece of legislation that dictates the responsibility your employer has to you when it comes to providing and managing equipment in the workplace. It’s a very important law that places a significant duty on employers to take reasonable steps to keep employees safe.
Work equipment can range from plant equipment, machinery, chairs in an office, handheld tools, and even works provided vehicles like a lorry or a bus. If it’s needed to work properly and safely, it should be provided and maintained by your employer.
Regulation 5 is probably one of the most profound parts, which states:
5. (1) Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair.
It’s fairly clear when reading the above that the employer has a significant duty in that they shall ‘ensure’ work equipment is safe. So if you are injured because work equipment you are using is defective, unsuitable, or you haven’t been trained correctly in how to use it, you may have strong prospects for a successful claim for personal injury compensation.
100% compensation for work equipment claims
Due to the April 2013 legal reforms, most law firms now take up to 25% from their client’s claims to cover their Success Fee which is no longer recoverable. Other fees can still be recovered, but the Success Fee cannot be recovered from the opponent, and this can now be taken from your compensation. There is a cap set at 25% so a lawyer can’t take more than that from you to cover the Success Fee, and our general research so far has found that most lawyers are simply taking the full amount.
But we have a unique and exclusive offer for our clients which allows them the opportunity to keep all 100% of their payout.
We agree to waive the Success Fee charge so long as you comply with our agreement to allow us to represent you for your claim as efficiently as possible. In essence, we agree to not charge you the 25% so you get to keep all 100% of your payout.
We can do this because we take on and win a higher volume of claims when compared to most other law firms, so the lower legal fees we can recover work just fine for us. There isn’t some catch or other hidden charge or anything like that. It’s a genuine offer that gives us the competitive edge over other lawyers and lets you save potentially thousands of pounds in compensation by not facing a huge deduction.
We’re a fully regulated firm and we have years of experience and a long history of happy clients so you can rest assured that this offer is not too good to be true. To find out more, simply call us for a friendly and informal chat on 0800 634 75 75 today.
