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With the world of personal injury shaken to its core in light of the reforms that took place this April, most accident victims now find themselves being charged by lawyers if they win their case. The reason for this is that lawyers are no longer able to recover all of their legal fees from the opponent as they used to be able to. As such, the bill has fallen on to the innocent victims to pay.

But if there is one thing we cannot stand here at The Injury Lawyers, it’s the idea that clients are being charged when they have been injured through no fault of their own.

That’s why we have continued our 100% compensation promise for most types of accidents.
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We like to think that our name says it all – we are THE Injury Lawyers; a firm of specialist personal injury solicitors who only represent victims for compensation claims. We’re a real law firm, not some claims management company who pass you over to solicitors. It’s us that advise you, and us that represent you for your personal injury compensation claim.

We have particular expertise in representing victims of serious accidents and catastrophic injuries. We have represented many victims for claims that range from a few thousand pounds to millions of pounds. So claiming with us gives you the peace of mind you need to know that we are fighting your corner for the claim.
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When making a claim for compensation, you can claim for the care and assistance given to you by your friends and family. Care and assistance can be claimed for as long as it is above the standard care which is usually expected; meaning it would have to be more than the usually household chores.

Examples of care and assistance:

• Feeding and Cooking you because you cannot do it yourself.
• Personal hygiene and assisting when getting washed or dressed  because you cannot do it yourself.
• Taking the individual to and from medical appointments or for treatment etc.
• Carrying out general household tasks such as cleaning, shopping and childcare duties

A claim can also be made for the expenses experienced by those caring for you. Those caring for you may incur petrol and parking costs when taking you to and from your appointments, or may incur costs for shopping when helping with your household chores.
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To put it simply a claim would normally be made under the Athens Convention if you sustained injury through an accident which was not your fault, whilst onboard a ship at sea. In some instances a claim may be brought under a different law or regulation such as via The Package Travel Regulations 1992. It is essential that you seek legal advice as soon as possible so that your Solicitor can advise you as to your best course of action.

The Athens Convention declares a carrier liable for damage or loss suffered by a passenger – if the accident which caused the damage occurred in the course of the carriage and was due to the fault or negligence of the carrier. A carrier can limit his or her liability unless the carrier acted with intent to cause such damage or acted recklessly and with knowledge that such damage would probably result.
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Unless you have been injured in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you’re likely to have the opinion that making a claim for personal injury compensation is somewhat of a joke, and perhaps even immoral. Personal injury is looked upon fairly negatively as people assume that victims of negligence are just milking the system and taking what they can from insurers.

Whilst I’m not going to go too much in to the ethics of making a claim, I will give you a few reasons as to why you should consider making a claim…

It’s just an insurance claim!

Insurance is there to cover people for eventualities when money is owed to someone. When you make a claim for personal injury compensation, in the vast majority of circumstances you are simply claiming money from insurance that exists to cover you for such eventualities. You are covered by someone else’s car insurance if they knock in to you. You are covered by your employers’ insurance. if you are injured at work in a none fault accident. The same applies for visiting a shop, or a cafe.
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These accidents commonly fall within the scope of Occupier’s liability claims. What this means is that the occupier of a premises has a duty to you to ensure you are safe whilst on their premises and if this does not happen they may have breached their duty and therefore you may be entitled to compensation.

Injuries sustained in a gym are usually as a result of defective equipment – as it is incredibly unlikely that you are going to be able to claim for picking up a weight that is too heavy for you or running too much on a treadmill; you have to show that someone else has been negligent and but for this negligence you would not have sustained an injury.
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To put it simply a claim would be made under the Athens Convention if you sustained injury through an accident which was not your fault, whilst onboard a ship at sea. In some instances a claim may be brought under a different law or regulation such as via The Package Travel Regulations 1992. It is essential that you seek legal advice as soon as possible so that your Solicitor can advise you as to your best course of action.

The Athens Convention declares a carrier liable for damage or loss suffered by a passenger – if the accident which caused the damage occurred in the course of the carriage and was due to the fault or negligence of the carrier. A carrier can limit his or her liability unless the carrier acted with intent to cause such damage or acted recklessly and with knowledge that such damage would probably result.

The injury could be caused due to the negligence of the captain. Injury could also be caused as a result of slipping on wet decking, for example.
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When it comes to making your personal injury compensation claim, we know that you want the maximum compensation, the toughest lawyer to fight your case, and a great service. This can really only be offered by an Accident Injury Specialist – and we know where you can find one!

You might call us bias for plugging ourselves here, but let me give you a few reasons why you should make your personal injury compensation claim with our expert team here at The Injury Lawyers:

Specialist Lawyers

There is a reason why we are called The Injury Lawyers – we only represent victims of personal injury compensation claims, and we don’t deal with any other types of law. All our staff are trained to specifically help victims for compensation claims, and we have a bespoke way of working that is suited to making sure our clients get the maximum compensation in the quickest time possible. The lawyer working on your file will be a specialist injury lawyer with a wealth of experience behind them.
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As always, it really depends on the type of accident you’ve had. But I will try and help out with some general guidance as to what happens next once the Defendant has accepted liability for your personal injury compensation claim.

Accepting liability is essentially the Defendant agreeing that they owe you compensation for what has happened. They accept there’s been a breach of duty on their part.

When making a claim for compensation there are two hurdles to cross that make for a winning claim – liability and causation. So liability is that first part – proving someone is at fault – causation means proving that the fault has caused a loss to you.
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We’ve been covering this a lot lately – simply down to the fact that most other law firms are now charging clients up to 25% of their compensation and asking for payment of an insurance fee. Why? Because our genius government decided that years and years of access to fair justice should be quashed in favour of insurance companies saving money. Whether this is down to how much money a lot of politicians seem to have in the insurance industry is a question in itself; but I digress.

April 1^st 2013 saw the biggest shakeup in the personal injury claiming world ever. For the first time in a long time, the innocent victims of negligence are now expected to pay to be compensated. Whilst lawyers can still recover most of their legal fees from the other side, we can now no longer recover a Success Fee and an After The Event Insurance fee.

The Success Fee is part of our fees that reflects the risk of a case. Some are riskier than others, and we can’t win them all – so we do lose money when we cannot continue a case on a No Win, No Fee basis. This Success Fee now cannot be recovered from the other side, and this is where the 25% has come in. The reason why it’s commonly 25% is because that is the maximum a lawyer can charge a client for the success Fee.
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