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Hot to start a claim for personal injury compensation
Here’s a step by step guide on how to start a claim for personal injury compensation with The Injury lawyers!
As a firm of specialist personal injury lawyers with years of happy clients and thousands of pounds in compensation won, we take the hassle and fuss away to make the claims process as easy as possible. Unlike many other traditional law firms, our unique way of working ensures that you get the best payout in the quickest time possible.
100% Compensation – Don’t Fall For The Tricks!
You might think that I’m going to discuss with you about the pitfalls of potentially instructing a lawyer with a 100% compensation agreement that may not be all that it seems – in actual fact, this article is about making sure you come to a firm like us that offer 100% payouts and making sure you don’t fall for the tricks of a 25% compensation solicitor.
A lot of people will speak to us and we’ll explain about how our 100% compensation offer works. We’ll send you out some paperwork and in the meantime you’ll probably speak to other solicitors as well.
Accident at Work Claim – how long does it usually take to settle?
This isn’t a straightforward question to answer – so to guide you in the best way I possibly can, I’ll explain the process and some general timeframes and tell you the main factors that affect the length of an accident at work personal injury compensation claim.
One important thing to know though is that the quality of your lawyer can affect the speed in which it takes to settle a claim, so make sure you go to the best like us!
Why do solicitors take a percentage of your compensation?
In the past, for most accident claims, lawyers would not take a percentage from your payout and 100% compensation was a common thing. But you’re probably reading this as you have noticed that lawyers now want to take a cut of up to 25% from your compensation if you claim with them!
So what happened to 100% Compensation? Why are lawyers now wanting to take 25% from you payout?
Simply put – the government changed the law.
Slipped on a ramp – advice from The Injury Lawyers
For some reason, a lot of ramps can often get very slippery in wet weather, and you’d think they’d have really good grip on them given that a sloped surface could be even more of a hazard if it’s slippery.
If you are the victim of a slip on a ramp, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation? I’ll split this one in to two sections – one for accidents at work, and one for general ones when out and about.
Put your foot through some flooring? Advice from The Injury Lawyers
You’re walking along and your foot suddenly goes through the floor – stopping you in your tracks and causing an injury – what can you do about it?
Well you may have a claim for personal injury compensation if this has happened to you. We would defiantly be able to look in to a claim on a No Win, No Fee basis; no one expects their foot to just go through a floor.
Injuries caused can be widespread – whether you twist your knee or ankle because your still moving forward when your foot falls through, or whether your foot is badly bruised and grazed from the friction of falling in, this kind of thing should never happen. If it happens in a public place or a place of work, there may be a claim against those is in control of the premises / the employer.
Injured in a Rented Flat? Landlord Compensation Claims Advice
If you rent a flat, the landlord is responsible to ensure that you’re not injured through negligence. This means that if you’re injured because something was wrong or defective in the flat, you may have a claim if the landlord was responsible.
For example:
- Slips due to an unrepaired leak
- Trip on an unrepaired defect – such as a raised flooring tile
- Hit by a falling fixture that was dangerous
- Electric shocks from poorly maintained electrical goods or sockets
100% Compensation Claims with The Injury Lawyers
In April 2013, the government stopped lawyers being able to recover all of their fees from the other side. They did this because they think that an accident victim should have more of an “interest” in their claim. We think it’s unfair – why should the victim lose some of their compensation that is meant to be recovered to compensate them for what’s happened in the first place!?
Now, other law firms are deducting up to 25% from their clients compensation payout to cover something called a Success Fee which is no longer recoverable. 25% is the maximum they can take from you.
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Coccyx Injury Compensation Advice
The coccyx, also known as the tailbone, can cause a lot of pain and discomfort when injured. It can very easily be injured from falling down and landing on your back or your buttocks. The pain, sometimes referred to as coccydynia, can last for a number of weeks or months and unfortunately there isn’t a great deal that can be done, or will be done, about it.
The NHS will normally just treat a coccyx injury with pain medication. You can’t really have any kind of physiotherapy in the area either, so it really is a waiting game. It can cause a lot of pain when sitting down or moving around so it’s common for most people to have lengthy periods off of work when suffering with a coccyx injury.
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How to Compare Personal Injury Lawyers – Who is the Best?
If you’d have asked me this 12 months ago, I would have explained to you that it’s all about making sure your solicitor goes the extra mile when it comes to the service that they offer. But since the government changed the law in April 2013, it’s now more of a case of which lawyers is the cheapest!
Nowadays it’s somewhat of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow to find a lawyer prepared to find your claim on the basis that you keep all 100% of your compensation if you win. This is because our government decided that victims of negligence should have to pay to claim when they stopped lawyers being able to recover all of their fees from the other side.
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