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At The Injury Lawyers, it is our firm belief that our clients should receive 100% of their compensation.  In other words, if our client obtains £10,000 in compensation, The Injury Lawyers will not take a penny away from that, and will make sure that you get the whole £10,000.  So – How then do we get paid?  Simple: where your claim is successful, we are able to recover our reasonable costs from the other side, the Defendant.  This is exactly why we never charge our clients a penny; because we can seek our costs from the other side.  Too good to be true?  Read on.

At The Injury Lawyers we work under a genuine no win, no fee agreement with our clients.  This is an agreement with yourselves that specifically states as a contractual term that we cannot recover our costs from the Claimant (i.e. you).  We believe this is rather unique within the legal word.  This is because, although we do not believe many other personal injury law firms would charge their clients for their work, their agreement usually states that they will only seek to recover their costs from the other side; leaving the possibility that if they are unsuccessful in seeking their fees back, they may look to recover their outstanding costs from you!  At The Injury Lawyers, that is not possible.  We have specifically barred ourselves from doing so.  If you have an injury claim and you believe you will be successful, we will send you out our paperwork and you can check for yourself.

What if we lose your claim?  How do we get paid then?
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If you have been unlucky enough to have been involved in a road traffic accident with a third party that was uninsured, or fled the scene of the accident and cannot be traced, where you are injured as a result you can still make a claim for compensation for those injuries.  This is because there is an organisation called the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (‘MIB’) who have been set up to deal with these types of claim where the negligent third party driver is either uninsured or untraced. 

Do not fear that because the other side have no insurance or have not stuck around that you cannot make a claim for compensation for your injuries; to be unable to do so would simply be unfair.  To make a claim for compensation, you are required to submit an MIB claim form.  This is relatively straightforward, but is always recommended that you have a quality injury lawyer on your side so that they can take you through the process and make sure that you get the best advice and maximum compensation you deserve.

At The Injury Lawyers, we have a wealth of experience in dealing with road traffic accident claims, and can both show you how to fill out an MIB claim form, and guide you through the claims process.  We work on a genuine no win, no fee agreement which means that we will not charge you a penny for our work.  This is because we can recover our costs from the other side.  This is even if you lose.  We can do this because we only ever take on your claim if we believe it has genuine prospects of success and so it is actually rare for your claim to be unsuccessful.
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I read today in the Northern Echo that a man from Darlington is seeking £300,000 compensation having been almost killed after he opened the door in a moving taxi back in 2008.  It is reported that Mr James Stokoe sustained a severe brain injury after the taxi door slid shut on his head when the taxi driver braked.  As a result of the accident, Mr Stokoe had been left disabled and unable to return to his work having suffered a fracture skull, and had bleeding on the brain, and is now seeking compensation for both his injuries and losses resulting from the accident.  Mr Stokoe has suggested the taxi driver ‘failed to maintain the rear side passenger door properly, failed to appreciate the door was open and that Mr Stokoe was leaning out’.

If like Mr Stokoe you have been involved in an accident where you have been injured, and you consider that it was not your fault, and therefore believe that you may be entitled to compensation, the best course of action, having received medical attention, is to get in touch with a quality injury lawyer with plenty of experience in dealing with personal injury claims. After all, they are best placed to advise you on any potential claim.  At The Injury Lawyers, our lawyers have many years experience solely in this field of work, and deal with hundreds of personal injury claims every day.  What’s more is that we work on a genuine no win, no fee agreement, which means that our clients never get charged a penny for our services – and when they receive the compensation owed to them, they get to keep 100% of it.  Why not give us a quick call to discuss any potential claim you may have?

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At The Injury Lawyers, we work on a genuine no win, no fee agreement.  This means that we never charge our clients a penny for our work, and that they get to keep 100% of their compensation.  If your claim is successful, you will receive compensation. 

Some other solicitor firms may want to take a percentage of your compensation to pay for their costs of undertaking your claim.  At The Injury Lawyers, we do not charge our clients whatsoever.  If you are owed £10,000 in compensation, you will receive the full £10,000.  What’s more, in the unlikely event that you lose your claim, we still do not charge you for our work.  That is why if you instruct us to deal with your claim, you enter into a genuine no win, no fee agreement with us – as you are never charged for our work.

There are a few reasons as to why we never charge our clients.  Firstly, and importantly, we believe that is unpalatable.  If we were to take some of your compensation, that would be the same as allowing your claim to be under-settled.  At The Injury Lawyers, we vow to get you the maximum compensation that you deserve.  If we are to take even 1% of your compensation, or even 1 penny, that would leave you undercompensated.  We do not believe in that approach, and so we specifically write into our agreement with you that we can not seek to recover our costs from you if we fail to recover them from the other side.  This is different from most other personal injury lawyers, who in their agreement may state that they may only seek to recover their costs from you.  This is not to say that they will charge you for their work, but if they chose to, they could, as they only have to seek, i.e. try, to get their costs back from the other side.  The Injury Lawyers rule that out. 
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The Northern Echo has reported that a motorist is being pursued for £300,000 in compensation by a motorcyclist for an accident occurring back in June 2008.  Robert McPherson of Pudsey, West Yorkshire, has asserted that Michael Kitching of Northallerton pulled out of a junction, knocking him off his motorbike and causing several injuries; notably a fractured hip, arm, shoulder, ribs, an injury to his pelvis, and causing a pulmonary embolism.  At the High Court in Leeds it has been contended that the accident was ‘caused by the negligent driving’ of Mr Kitching.  Indeed, Mr Kitching has admitted liability for the accident.

It is worth noting that it is not purely his injuries that Mr McPherson is trying to claim for – he is also attempting to claim a significant loss of earnings.  As the Northern Echo reports, the court papers note that ‘At the time of the index accident, the claimant was a self-employed electrician fulfilling a handsome role as a director of his own business.  Following the accident, and because of the injuries sustained, the claimant is now less able to complete the duties required within his business and as such is disadvantaged when compared to others undertaking work of a similar nature to the claimant who has not suffered such injury.’  In essence, Mr McPherson will not be able to carry out the job role he did previously because of the injuries sustained in the accident with Mr Kitching – he has therefore suffered a significant loss of earnings.

This accident demonstrates two things.  Firstly, if you have been involved in a road traffic accident that is not your fault and have sustained an injury as a result, it is likely that you will be entitled to compensation.  You should therefore instruct a quality injury lawyer, like those at The Injury Lawyers, to fight tooth and nail for the maximum compensation you deserve.  And secondly, when making a claim for compensation, it is not purely your injuries that you may be entitled to compensation for.  If you have other losses which stem from your accident, a professional injury lawyer can make a claim for those on your behalf.  This is another reason why you should get an experienced injury lawyer like those at The Injury Lawyers on your side.  They know what the heads of losses you can obtain compensation for, and know how to go about doing this the right way.
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It was reported on BBC News that a custody officer, who whilst at work, suffered a bite injury from a HIV positive asylum seeker, has been awarded £100,000 in compensation.

The custody officer, who is also a war veteran, suffered the attack whilst at work in Gatwick Airport.  As a result of the attack the officer needed 3 operations to repair the wound, and also had to wait 6 months to discover whether she was clear for HIV.

It later emerged that the detainee had bitten another officer only days earlier, and an error meant that other officers dealing with her were not informed, and precautionary measures were not put in place.
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It is reported by the Health and Safety Executive that two firms, one a farm and the other a contractor, have been fined a total of £130,000 after a construction worker suffered a severe electric shock from overhead power lines.

The self-employed steel erector from Norfolk was installing 2 poultry units, and at the time of the accident was using a scissor lift to clad the gable end of the steel frame, when it came into contact with an overhead power cable, giving the steel worker an 11 KV electric shock.

As a result of the accident, the steel worker suffered severe burns to his stomach and hands, as well as internal muscle damage when the incident occurred in June 2009.
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It was reported in the Advertiser today that a car driver is being sued for £300,000 after allegedly colliding with a motorcyclist in Northallerton.

The alleged circumstances of the accident were that the driver of a Toyota Corolla pulled out of a minor road on the B6271 in Northallerton in to the path of a motorcyclist, and ultimately caused the collision.

After the collision in June 2008, the motorcyclist, a self –employed electrician, suffered fractures to his hip, arm, shoulder, and ribs. He also suffered a further pelvic injury with a pulmonary embolism (a blockage to a blood vessel on the lung).
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The Chronicle Live has reported that a lorry driver has received £4,000.00 in compensation having slipped on some cat litter in an Asda store.  It is stated that Ian Burridge was delivering to Asda in Stanley, County Durham, and had asked some of his colleagues for a broom so that he could tidy away some cat litter.  Mr Burridge was told that there was no broom available and was unfortunate enough to later slip on some cardboard which was covering the cat litter. 

As a result of the accident, Mr Burridge has developed osteoarthritis for which there is no cure and it is a condition that is only likely to get worse.  Mr Burridge still continues to use painkillers and complains that his knee hurts when he is driving and when he has to go up stairs.

Nichola Waugh, who was representing Mr Burridge, has remarked that ‘Mr Burridge has been a victim of his colleagues’ flippant attitude towards health and safety…If they had taken more care, the accident would never have happened.’  And she is right.  When you go to work, you do not expect to be injured.  Your employer is under a duty of care to ensure that whilst you are at work your health and safety is protected.  So, when Mr Burridge highlighted the problem of the cat litter to his colleagues, his employers should have reacted, or should have at least had a broom available, so that this hazard could have been stopped.
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The Watford Observer has reported that a Mr Mark Seabrook has obtained £5 million in compensation in the High Court last week. It came after Mr Seabrook was left paralysed back in 2006 when his motor vehicle was hit by a negligent thirty driver in Watford. In fact, the full list of injuries included numerous fractures to his ribs, a broken leg, as well as spinal, chest, lung and head traumas.  To make the matter even worse, the negligent driver had stolen the car that hit Mr Seabrook’s vehicle.

Not only has Mr Seabrook now been compensated for his devastating injuries, but Salliaman Khan, the negligent thief, has also been jailed for eight months.

In awarding Mr Seabrook this huge amount of compensation, account was taken of that fact that Mr Seabrook’s life had been ruined by the paralysis – that his job opportunities were now limited, and that he had in fact lost his job, and that he would need care and assistance for the rest of his life having now been confined to a wheel chair.
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