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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At The Injury Lawyers we have found that some people don’t seem to realise that if they were the innocent passenger injured in a car crash, they have one of the best prospects of a successful claim for compensation you can get. 

It doesn’t matter whether the accident was the fault of the driver who’s car you were in or whether the accident was caused by some other vehicle – you were the passenger, and unless you did something daft like pull the handbrake, grab the steering wheel or severely distract the driver to cause the accident, there is little way you can be said to have been at fault for the accident. 

More often than not liability for your accident and injuries will be admitted straightaway, and it’s just a matter of getting medical evidence and settling your claim, which doesn’t take long at all.
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Manual handling injuries can be devastating; the back is, after all, one of the most important parts of our bodies. Injuring your back can range from discomfort to immobility. Its important that we look after our backs, so its important that we lift in the right way to make sure that we never end up injuring ourselves in the line of duty for our employers.

Manual Handling affects everyone – even the office workers that every now and then need to carry a stack of files or a box of paper from A to B need to make sure that they are doing it in the right way to avoid injury. For those of you where manual handling is an active part of your daily routine, I’d like to think you know the dangers and the health and safety rules inside out.

Rules and Regulations
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Claiming for injury compensation from road traffic accidents is dead easy; especially since a new system was introduced in April 2010 which made the process faster and less complicated. 

Nowadays you can get the other side to admit liability in 3 or so weeks and once that’s done it’s just a matter of getting medical evidence and settling your claim which doesn’t take that long either.

The first stage of the new process is to submit a Claim Notification Form.  This a simple form which just details what happened in your accident and names the people and vehicles involved.  It gets submitted online via the Ministry of Justice portal and the Defendant then has just 1 business day to acknowledge it and then a further 15 business days to admit or deny liability. 
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If I was given just a penny for each time I was asked how much someone’s whiplash claim was worth, I would be a very rich man!  (Well, almost!).  It is one of the most common, if not the most common, questions we get asked at The Injury Lawyers.

In the vast majority of whiplash claims we deal with, the innocent victim has been involved in a straightforward accident; say someone has driven into the back of their car, or hit them head on or pulled out of a side road into them.

These are claims where it should be easy to get an admission from the Defendant because it was clearly their fault and you would have thought that the amount of compensation people get will be similar.  Thing is, whiplash is a funny old injury that affects people in different ways, so the amount of compensation can differ a lot.
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At The Injury Lawyers, we are expert injury lawyers having successfully dealt with thousands of personal injury claims over the last few years.  As such we know that whiplash is one of, if not the most, common injuries to come out of a road traffic accident.  We also realise that although people have heard of whiplash, they are not entirely sure what whiplash is and whether they are suffering from it.  Here’s a little guide:

What is whiplash?

Whiplash is a soft tissue injury that affects your head, neck, shoulder, and back area.  It is where you strain the muscles and tendons in these parts.
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If you have been in a road traffic accident with an uninsured driver which was not your fault, you can be compensated for any injuries you have picked up.

Usually, it would be a matter of making a claim through the negligent drivers’ insurance company, but in this case the driver didn’t have insurance.  Not to worry, because back in 1946 the Motor Insurers’ Bureau was set up to deal with claims for compensation arising from the negligence of uninsured drivers.

In most cases it will be best to go through the Motor Insurers’ Bureau because the Defendant themselves is unlikely to be worth personally suing; in other words, they aren’t likely to have the money to pay your compensation.  They didn’t have insurance after all!  Each year, from everyone’s insurance premiums, about £15.00 to £30.00 is put in the Motor Insurers’ Bureau’s compensation fund so that the innocent victims of negligence can be compensated.  It would be unjust if because someone didn’t bother to get insurance and you were unable to be compensated as a result.
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Nowadays receiving a ‘pre-med’ offer in respect of compensation for your injuries is common.  What I mean by a ‘pre-med’ offer is a pre-medical offer – i.e. an offer made to you by the Defendant without medical evidence having been sought. 

The normal procedure in the claims process is to obtain medical evidence after the Defendant has admitted liability.  Medical evidence is important because it allows your injuries to be properly diagnosed and detailed so you can find out how long a medical expert believes you will be suffering for. The general rule is that the more severe and long lasting your injury is, the more it is worth. Naturally, having a medical report allows your claim to be properly valued by confirming this.
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