In the UK, accidents are not uncommon. Apart from the roads, accidents could happen right inside your house, at your work place or possibly anywhere and will usually result in some injury to your person. Although this in itself is quite traumatic, in many cases, as a victim of an accident or mishap, you’re entitled to make personal injury claim.
You can claim compensation for a personal injury you’ve suffered due to no fault of your own but due to the negligence of another. However, it is important that you seek compensation within 3 years of having suffered the injury. Personal injury claims made after 3 years of having sustained the injury are not valid – unless you were a minor when the accident took place. In the case of minors, the victims have up to 3 years after they’ve turned 18 to file the claim. In all other cases, the sooner the claim made, the better it is for the one seeking compensation.
Personal injury claims can be made for injuries resulting out of many accidents. Examples of this could be:
1. Road Accident injury
2. Injury while handling machinery at your workplace
3. Injury resulting from an occupational disease
4. Injury resulting from lack of maintenance of roads, sidewalks, parks, etc.
5. Injury resulting from being bitten by someone’s pet.
The amount of compensation received will differ in each case – from a few hundred to a few thousand pounds depending on the severity of the injury itself and the severity of the impact it has had on other aspects of the victim’s life
If you think you could be entitled to file for a personal injury claim, the first thing to do would be engage a solicitor. In the UK, there are specific solicitors and law firms that deal with personal injury claims. The solicitors guide you about documents you need – like medical reports, bills, police reports or witnesses. They will also be able to estimate the amount of compensation that you are likely to receive. Ideally, you should trust the solicitor’s word on the amount since they deal with such cases on a regular basis and will know what amount will be considered reasonable and entertained in the court of law.
For your benefit, lawyers in the UK work on a no fee, no win basis. This means that if the lawyer wins the case, the fees are not deducted from the compensation amount you receive, but instead are paid for by the losing party’s insurance company. Consequently, if you lose the case, the solicitor gets no fee.
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