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If you’ve had an accident, it can be quite daunting deciding which company to use to pursue your claim. With people being bombarded with cold calls, texts, emails and most commonly, TV adverts, it’s difficult to tell which company is really the best value for money, and who is going to take the least deductions from your compensation if they win your case.

Here at The Injury Lawyers, we do things differently. We work on a No Win No Fee basis, meaning that if we didn’t win your case for you, then you wouldn’t have to pay us a penny. And even if we did win it for you, we can claim the costs from the other side so for most types of claims you still wouldn’t owe us anything.
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Love them or hate them, supermarkets are an accident hotspot, and our expert team here at The Injury lawyers are more than used to getting calls from people wanting to start a claim for personal injury compensation having had an accident in Asda.

So what are your rights when it comes to making a claim for compensation from Asda? Is it even possible to take on one of the largest supermarket giants in the world?
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Firstly, I’ll define what I mean by the term “free” – by this we can organise funding of private medical care that we can then recover directly from the other side at the end of a successful claim. So it isn’t provided free of charge, but you won’t have to pay out for it so long as you comply with the terms of the agreement.
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It’s very common for people to see a medical expert as part of their claim for personal injury compensation, and this is usually arranged by your lawyer. But why?

The expert you see will produce a report for your lawyer which they will then use to:

• Value your claim for compensation.
• Justify any losses like lost earnings, medical expenses, or travel expenses.
• Find out if you need further investigation or treatment to assist your recovery.

This report, known as a medico-legal report, will give a solicitor the valuable information they need to determine the extent of your suffering and loss to allow them to use a combination of their own expertise and experience, together with official guidelines, to value your claim. In the absence of such a report, your solicitor can only ever give you estimates.
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It is understandable that Claimant’s often want to know how much compensation they can claim. Unfortunately it is difficult for a firm of solicitors to say with any certainly how much compensation is likely to be awarded. This is due to the simple fact that at the outset of a claim the extent, seriousness or length of your injury may not be known and there is no medical evidence to confirm your injuries/suffering.

At the outset, the only real guidance we can give is by using the JC Guidelines which assist in valuing claims. Note that these are just guidelines and not set amounts, every case is different. The guidelines are the only tool available to us at the outset. Once all evidence is obtained, we would value a claim using the guidelines in addition to past cases and the medical evidence in your case.
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As a firm of personal injury lawyers, we are often asked about the potential value of a claim. First of all, it is very difficult to say with any certainty how much your claim is worth at the outset. This is because we need medical evidence to document your injuries and to confirm that your injuries are caused or related to the accident in question. We use this medical evidence to help value your case. In addition to medical evidence we use past cases (known as case law) to help value your claim. We can look at cases where the Claimant sustained similar injuries to you and see how much compensation was awarded in these cases. When looking at past cases, we do apply an uplift to bring any amount up to what it would be worth today (i.e. a case worth £2,000 in 1999 would be worth more than £2,000 in 2013 when you take into account inflation).
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I know we all do it – lean things up against a wall before we have time to put them away. I often do it with my guitars once they’re unloaded from my car. The odd sweeping brush is often found leaning up when doing a bit of spring cleaning as well.

But what happens if an object leaning up against a wall was to tip over and hit you? Or perhaps slide down and hit you? Obviously if this happens in your own home and you’ve done the leaning, there isn’t really anyone to pursue a claim against! What I’m talking about here is if you are in a public place like a shop or perhaps at work and this happens.
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In the highly commercialised world we live in, marketing is everything – we’re subjected to huge amounts of TV, radio, and sign advertising everywhere we go. Shops and stores are full of display signs showing the latest offers and deals to entice you in to parting with your hard earned cash.

But surely one of the last things you expect is to be injured by a display sign in a shop – whether it’s a marketing sign or for other purposes. But if the sign is fairly large or perhaps sharp, you can easily end up injured if this happens to you.
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Falling through a ceiling is likely to be an unexpected but extremely dangerous accident. Numerous injuries can be caused which range from bruising to broken bones to brain injuries! If you have been the victim of such an accident, here is what you need to know!

Renting – The Defective Premises Act 1972

The act includes anything which is attached to the premises, which a ceiling clearly is, and sets out who is negligent in certain instances. This is normally a key law in proving that a landlord or an agency is liable for a claim for personal injury compensation.
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We have blogged a few times in the past, and very recently, about why you should instruct a firm like us to represent you for your claim. You may think you’re being smart and savvy by dealing direct, and getting a quick settlement. You may be able to barter with the insurers and they may even tell you they’ll give you a little extra for keeping the lawyers away from the case.

Think again!

We did a recent study that I blogged about and we showed that on average we get an increase of around 53% for our clients on their offers. And other research has shown lawyers can get up to four times as much just because we are involved.
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