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If you are burned at work, you may be entitled to claim for personal injury compensation!

In general, unless you were blatantly at fault yourself, you could have good prospects for success. This is down to the fact there are loads and loads of workplace regulations that employers must abide by, and as long as we can prove one has been breached and has caused the injury, you can make a claim.

So let’s look at a few examples:
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If you have been seriously injured through no fault of your own, you may be entitled to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation. If the consequences are life changing, you could be entitled to millions of pounds.

That’s why it’s important to get the right lawyer when making a claim for personal injury compensation, and it’s important to understand the importance of actually making a claim.

As our name suggests, we are The Injury Lawyers – this means we only represent victims for personal injury compensation claims, and we have a huge history of cases ranging from the minor to the life altering catastrophic injuries. So the advice in this article will hopefully give you the right guidance when looking to make your claim.
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It isn’t always easy searching for the right lawyer to represent you for your personal injury claim. Type any general search term in to Google or another search engine and its likely you will see hundreds of websites all vowing that they are the best choice for you.

We would of course love you to choose us, but in case you do want to shop around, use our guide to find the perfect injury lawyer for you:

Go Direct!

Most websites are not actually law firms, but claims management companies and accident advice services who will refer you to a law firm rather than actually act for you. This can result in you being charged for a middleman just to pass you to another lawyer who may charge as well.
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In the past, I would have written about the vast benefits of our service like regular updates, private physiotherapy, and a friendly and efficient service to try and win you over to the fact that we, in our humble opinion, are the best choice as a national personal injury law firm. But now, none of that matters to most people as it’s all about the COST. Here’s why:

April 2013

A dark month for the world of personal injury claiming when the government changed the law so lawyers cannot recover all of their legal fees from the opponent. The two things we can no longer recover are as follows:
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Here at The Injury Lawyers we are a specialist law firm and have many years of experience in dealing with personal injury claims. If obtaining treatment and paying for consultations is worrying you, don’t worry because we are here to help!

The Importance of Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is important for recovering where your muscles have been damaged, stretched or torn in an accident. Physiotherapy aims to restore the movement to your injured muscles by many different techniques. Some of these include:
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With people rushing around in an effort to catch their train on time, despite most stations having faster clocks to try and dupe you in to thinking it’s later than it is, it’s no wonder that accidents in train stations are very common. The most common ones are slips and trips, and the Occupiers Liability Act imposes a duty on those in charge of the station to take all reasonable steps to prevent accidents occurring.
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Most claims for compensation for personal injury in England and Wales must be brought within a 3 year period, with this time limit being known as the limitation period. This means that from the date of the accident occurring, you have three years to bring your claim. This means you must either settle the claim or issue the claim with a court within that time period.

The Limitation Act 1980 states that with regards to personal injury, that “the period applicable is three years from… the date on which the cause of action accrued; or the date of knowledge (if later) of the person injured.” (source)
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As soon as we agree to act for you in your case, we will look to correspond with the Defendant, or more commonly with their insurers, solicitors or representatives. Different types of cases are run in different ways. For example all road traffic accidents are submitted through a designated online portal. Most general claims where the date of the accident occurred after 31^st July 2013 are also through a portal. There are some set rules or guidelines (in law known as protocols) which we must adhere to. Equally there are set rules and guidelines (set out in the specific protocol) which the Defendant should adhere to. If the Defendant fails to adhere to the protocol then we can take the necessary action.
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Unfortunately, in the UK we tend to experience some pretty confusing weather; for example, one day it might be bright sunshine and the next we open the curtains to a blanket of snow! With the constant change in temperature from one end of the scale to the other, it isn’t really that surprising that our pathways and roads are in the state that they are with many holes, cracks and bumps appearing overnight.

However, this is the problem when you come to make a claim for injuries caused by these defects – as can the highway authority or council really be expected to know and repair defects that appear this quickly?

Injuries caused by falling on these types of defects can range from the minor cut to the knee and bruised elbow to broken bones and possible permanent issues so how come these cases can be so difficult and unfortunately can last for quite a long time?
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This isn’t a very easy question to answer. I can tell you that most straightforward claims can traditionally settle in around 6-9 months time. BUT – a new portal system that most claims are now pursued through is designed to allow for a speedy resolution to straightforward accident claims.

Before the new portal system, for most accidents the insurers would have almost 4 months to investigate a claim. Now they have just 30 business days. If your accident occurred on or after 31^st July 2013, it’s likely your claim will fall within this new portal system. There are a few exceptions, the biggest being road accidents as they have been under a separate portal system since April 2010.

So if your claim falls within the new system, it’s hard to say how long it can take as the whole process is so new.
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