It’s not unusual to receive a pre-medical offer nowadays.  A pre-medical offer is an offer made in respect of your injuries before you get a medical report.  The usual claims process is for you to attend a medical appointment with a medical expert once liability for your accident has been admitted so that a legal medical report can be obtained. 

If you are happy with this, it will be disclosed to the Defendant and they will have a period of 21 days to make you an offer of compensation and negotiations can go from there.  More often now, we are coming across Defendant’s making offers to settle your claim prior to you getting a medical report.

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If you have been involved in a road traffic accident and you were a passenger in one of the vehicles involved, you have excellent prospects of a successful claim for compensation. 

Even better, under a new system to deal with claims, you should get your compensation fast!

The reason you have excellent prospects of a successful claim are simple – it is highly unlikely that as a passenger you were to blame for the accident.  Short of severely distracting the driver, grabbing the steering wheel or pulling the handbrake, I cannot think of many circumstances where a passenger can be held to have caused a road traffic accident.  It doesn’t matter whether you were the passenger in the vehicle at fault either; you are still the innocent party and can be compensated al the same.
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Bicycles are becoming an increasingly popular method of transport. It’s cheap, easy, greener, and importantly healthier. It’s good to see that many cities now have dedicated cycle lanes to encourage their use, and help cyclists to stay safer when out and about.

Unfortunately, despite cyclist’s best efforts to stay seen with high visibility clothing, cycle reflectors, and using cycle lanes, accidents still happen. We deal with a lot of bicycle accident compensation claims here at The Injury Lawyers, so we know exactly what we are doing, and we know how to obtain you the maximum amount of compensation possible.
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Knee injuries can be seriously debilitating – there is a lot to take in to account for valuing such a case. Our knees are ultimately responsible for holding us upright and walking or running around. With a weak or injured knee, you can end up facing unfortunate and often serious mobility issues.

We as expert personal injury lawyers are used to dealing with all injuries and claims; we are more than used to representing people with knee injuries. The reason I’m writing on this subject in particular is because I am currently suffering from a debilitating knee injury myself; so I thought I’d share with you some of the trials and tribulations I have been through in a sense of how they fit in with a claim to give you an idea of what sorts of things you can include as part of your compensation claim.

The most common knee injuries involve your ligaments inside your knee. Impact injuries and / or dislocation injuries will commonly cause severe damage to the ligaments in your knee. To give you an example, i.e. me, from a simple impact injury and a knee dislocation, in which I heard the dreaded pop sound associated with these injuries, my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) pulled the piece of my tibia that it is attached to clean off, and all collateral ligaments were torn. Another problematic side effect is the nerve damage that is often associated with these injuries. The common peroneal nerve (CPL) can become trapped by swelling, or can even tear of snap – resulting in a rare condition known as “foot drop” or “drop foot” where the foot literally cannot be raised as the ability to dorsi-flex is gone from the damage.
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Our Specialist PIP Implant Compensation Team bringing you the latest update

Having taken on a vast number of claims to date, we have had the opportunity to speak to many of the victims of the PIP Implant scandal. From those who simply want the implants removed as a precaution, to those who have been and are suffering from adverse reactions.

Despite the news from some health professionals and experts who say the potential dangers are inconclusive, we are seeing the effects on the front line – the effects on the women who are suffering with these implants.

As a quick refresher, the PIP Implants manufactured in France were largely manufactured with industrial grade silicon that is commonly used in the production of mattresses and pillows. This grade of silicon has never been safe for implants, yet the company behind the scandal chose to cut corners (and assumedly expenses!) and hide a whole eight years worth of fraudulent operations that have ended up putting the innocent victims in serious danger.
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As the scandal surrounding the PIP implants continues, there are thousands of women who are in desperate need of advice, guidance, and answers as to what they should do if they are affected by the PIP implant scandal.

One of the crucial things that the victims want to know is information about the symptoms of a ruptured implant. Given that the implants are said to be subject to easy rupture, and contain an industrial grade silicone capable of causing harm to the human body, people are worried.

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If you have been injured in a road traffic accident that was not your fault, you are entitled to get the maximum amount of compensation that you deserve. But how much compensation can you expect to receive for your whiplash injury?

Although the amount of compensation varies from person to person, here at The Injury Lawyers we are experts in the field of whiplash compensation claims – so here is a quick guide to help determine the amount of whiplash compensation you may receive.

Obviously we here at The Injury Lawyers work harder to get you the maximum amount of compensation that you deserve. We can prove that with our high levels of service.
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Tripping accidents are relatively common – there are tonnes of hazards out there just waiting to, well literally, trip us up. If you have tripped over and want to know if you are due compensation for the injuries you have ended up with, you will need to contact a specialist personal injury lawyer to assess the case and perhaps take it on.

But in the meantime, here is a little advice about making a tripping accident claim and some facts you need to know about:

Who Is At Fault?
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If you ever injure yourself in the workplace, its good practice to report it to a superior as soon after the accident as possible; permitting you don’t need urgent medical attention or anything. No matter how big or small the injury is, you would be wise to notify someone and get it properly recorded to make sure there is a solid record of exactly what happened.

This is especially useful for making a claim for compensation. So if you are considering making one and haven’t yet reported the injury, I’d speak to your employer as soon as you can!

So, here’s a little advice on reporting the accident and what happens next:
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A fair few people don’t make whiplash claims because they can’t be bothered with the ‘hassle’ or have been offered some money directly by an insurer and don’t think that getting an expert injury lawyer on board is worth it if when they may only get a couple of hundred pounds more compensation.  I would say this is the wrong way to approach things, and here’s why:

A new whiplash claiming system was introduced in April 2010 which drastically cut down the amount of time whiplash claiming takes.  Under the old system you had to get all your details together, produce a Letter of Claim which outlined these details and then send this to the Defendant who had a period of 21 days to acknowledge it and then a further 3 months from when they acknowledged the Letter of Claim to investigate your accident and come back with either an admission or denial of liability. 

For a very straightforward accident which was clearly the Defendant’s fault, it could take nearly 4 months for them to admit liability.  I could understand why some people got a little frustrated about this.  But this has all changed!
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