We are The Injury Lawyers – we are a firm of specialist personal injury lawyers who deal only in claims for personal injury compensation throughout the whole of the UK (except for Ireland, unfortunately). We are an actual law firm – we are not some claims company or accident helpline, who will give you some advice and pass your details over to a law firm for profit – it’s us that advise you about your claim, and it is us that represent you!

We personally believe that our Genuine No Win No Fee agreement and our service standards are second to none. We know of no other law firm that handles cases in quite the same way that we do! So, here is a guide on how we work, who we are, what we do, and how we do it, so you can not only learn something about us, but learn something about what you should look for when it comes to searching for injury lawyers.

Genuine No Win No Fee
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This is the one of the most common questions we hear here at The Injury Lawyers, and hence the reason for dedicating a blog to the subject.

The best way to find out if you have a claim is to contact a specialist personal injury law firm. Many law firms such as The Injury Lawyers offer free claims assessments, so whether we take your claim on or not, you don’t have to pay a penny. So, it seems you have nothing to lose by getting some free legal advice and assessing your options.

So have you got a claim…?
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There may be many accident victims out there suffering from their injuries and wondering whether to make a claim for compensation – hence the reason for writing this blog. If you have been involved in an accident that was due to the negligence of another, and you have been injured as a result, you may be entitled to make a claim. I have listed below some of the main benefits of beginning a claim, many of which you may not have realised existed.

Compensation for Injury

I will begin with the most obvious reasons why people begin claims for personal injury, and that is of course for compensation for their injuries.  This compensation is meant to reflect both the pain and suffering due to your injuries as well as your loss of amenity.  Loss of amenity means the adverse effects the injury has had on all areas of your life.
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Whiplash is actually a pretty complicated injury.  There can at times be no telling how long your whiplash will last for, and the amount of pain and suffering you will have from your whiplash injury can vary significantly between different people.  If anything, and I hate to break the news to anyone who has just sustained a whiplash injury, the pain and suffering is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Some symptoms of whiplash:

• Neck, back, shoulder pain or stiffness
• Headaches
• Pins and needles
• Light-headedness / headaches

Treatment:
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So – you are in a situation where you have had an accident that was not your fault, and you feel that you may have a claim for compensation; but where do you go with your claim?

You can probably guess that in the following blog I will include a lot of positives about the service we offer here at The Injury Lawyers; but apart from informing you of the positives of our firm, I wish to give you a concise guide to choosing the right law firm for you.

Go direct to a law firm…
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If you have been unfortunate enough to have been involved in an accident with an uninsured or untraced driver (i.e. the driver fled the scene without leaving their details), then you may still be entitled to claim for compensation through an organisation known as The Motor Insurers Bureau (or MIB for short).

To not be able to claim for an injury caused by a road accident that was not your fault would simply be unfair and unjust; hence why The Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) was set up in order to deal with uninsured and untraced claims. The MIB also deal with hit and run cases under its untraced agreement.

The MIB is funded by motor insurance companies and helps around 25,000 people per year make a claim. The fact that it is funded by the insurance companies means that, ultimately, they are funded by us and our insurance premiums – the MIB have calculated this cost to be around £15 – £30 per policy a year.
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Tripping claims are one of the most common types of claim that we see here at The Injury Lawyers. If you have tripped over due to the negligence of another, and you have been injured as a result, you may have a claim for compensation.

I have listed below some of the more common types of tripping claims that we see here at The Injury Lawyers:

Tripping over on the street on defective paving or raised/unsecured manhole covers – in this instance it is likely that your claim will either be against local council, a gas or electricity company or a water board. With these types of claims it is advisable to instruct a specialist personal injury lawyer with experience in handling claims against the Council. This is because claiming against the Council can be difficult as their duty only extends to regularly inspecting and maintaining the land for which they are responsible. Therefore, if they can prove they have kept up with their inspection and maintenance policies, they can easily defend a claim.
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If you have had an accident in an evening out venue that was not your fault, and you suffered injury as a result, you may have a claim for compensation.

There are a number of ways an accident can occur in a venue – I have listed some of the more common types of accidents below:

1. Slipping on a spillage that was negligently left uncleaned.
2. Tripping on an item negligently left in a walkway.
3. Getting shards of broken glass stuck in your foot.
4. Accidents arising from the venue being overcrowded and over capacity.

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What is third party capture?

I realise that some of you reading this blog may have heard of this term, but many people do not know what we mean by ‘Third Party Capture’.  In short it is where a third party insurer deals directly with the victim of their insured’s negligence in order for them to come to an agreement over compensation between themselves, without an independent legal representative.  In most scenarios the injuries will have been sustained in a road traffic accident, but equally they could have occurred out of another type of accident, for instance an accident at work.

Is this a problem?
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Compensation is also called ‘damages’ and there are two heads of damages for which you can claim – these are general damages and special damages, both of which I will go on to explain below.

General Damages

General damages is compensation which you can claim for the injuries you sustained as a result of your accident. In essence, you are claiming for:
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