Walker Jack Consultants

Lower body injuries are a common source of personal no win no fee injury claims. Whether you have fallen over as the result of inadequately paved streets or are the unfortunate victim of a car accident, any injury that affects your mobility could result in a significant amount of compensation, particularly if it necessitates prolonged treatment and a lengthy time off work.

For example, knee injuries have a particularly long recovery period. For some sufferers, simply resting or visits to a physiotherapist will be sufficient, while for others surgery will be required.

Groin injuries are another source of intense discomfort and protracted immobility. Hernias are a frequent problem and are often caused by repetitive strain as a result of lifting in the workplace. It is not uncommon for hernias to develop after a length of time, meaning that the sufferer is not initially aware of the damage.

Employers are bound to provide a high standard of health and safety at work. If your injury was the result of an accident at work then you may well have grounds for a personal injury claim.

A no win no fee agreement is the ideal way to pursue such a claim for compensation.

Because you are unlikely to receive legal aid, no win no fee claims allow the victim to seek compensation without putting a large amount of money in a solicitor’s hands, up front.

Instead, you are not obliged to pay the solicitor anything except, in some cases, expenses, if you lose your claim.

read comments (0)

In the UK if anyone is injured in a car accident and it wasn’t their fault, they have the right to claim compensation based on their injuries. When a car accident claim is filed, it will be filed against the driver that caused the accident. Because drivers must be insured in the UK, the claim is actually against the driver’s insurance company.

Even though it is the law that drivers are insured in the UK, there is a significant number who are not. So, what happens when a person is injured by an uninsured driver? If the driver is uninsured, will a claim be paid?  Luckily, the Motor Insurers Bureau was set up in 1946 to deal with accidents that involved uninsured or untraced, hit and run, drivers. This is a privately run organisation that provides compensation under three different schemes. The uninsured driver’s scheme is for any compensation claims against such drivers. It will consider compensation claims that can include repair or replacement of a vehicle, medical and treatment expenses, hire car expenses and pain and suffering due to injuries. The untraced drivers scheme deals with compensation claims from victims of hit and run drivers. The final scheme, the green card scheme, provides compensation if the accident is caused by a foreign driver.

While victims may be able to claim compensation from the Motor Insurers Bureau, there are strict regulations for filing the claims and for what can and will be paid. In these cases, it is still worth seeking the assistance of an accident claims solicitor to ensure that all regulations are met when filing the compensation claim.

read comments (0)

Groin injury occurs when the muscles of the groin area are stretched beyond their limits, thereby causing the muscles and surrounding tissue to tear. Groin injuries can be as simple as a pulled muscle or sprained tendon, or can be something more serious like a hernia, which is when an abdominal injury occurs, pressing into the tissue or muscle surrounding it and causing significant pain. Groin injuries are fairly common personal injuries that are often covered under the no win no fee system, depending on how they occurred. Most groin injuries occur as a direct result of individuals placing an unusually large amount of strain or pressure on a region, mostly related to intense physical activity. Heavy lifting on the job is one of the leading causes of groin and stomach injuries.

Since your employer owes you a duty of care and is required by law to provide reasonable measures of safety, you are entitled to no win no fee compensation as long as you can prove your employer was in some way negligent and caused you to injure yourself. Whether or not you are allowed to make a groin injury claim depends on the circumstances leading up to the injury, as well as the severity. Considering all personal injury claims are taken very seriously under the no win no fee system, your best course of action is to contact a no win no fee lawyer and find out whether or not you are eligible to make a no win no fee compensation claim.

read comments (0)

Under the no win no pay system, you are allowed to make a compensation claim without paying any sort of legal fees up front. Instead, your no win no fee lawyer will claim the legal fees from the other side, meaning that win or lose the insurer of the defendant is required by law to compensate you 100% for any of the legal fees involved. If you win, all of the associated fees above and beyond the legal ones, such as medical fees, wages lost, and compensation for pain and suffering are covered. The system was initially put into place in order to provide access to justice for individuals who were otherwise financially unable to pursue claims.

The first step in making compensation claim if you believe that someone is liable for your injury is for you to contact a no win no fee solicitor. If the solicitor agrees that you have a valid claim and that someone else could in fact be liable, they will take your information and send it to the individual thought to be liable for your injury and inform them that you intend to file a claim against them. At this point, you will need to be examined by medical experts to determine whether or not the injury you have was actually a result of the negligent actions of the other party, and a schedule of losses will be drawn up, which will then be presented to the defendant’s lawyer for them to either accept or dispute, in which case the claim goes to court and the outcome is determined by a judge.

read comments (0)

When making a claim for compensation after an accident, most people tend to focus on the amount of money they hope to receive to compensate for the injury. While this is obviously important, it is not the complete story.

Compensation for personal injury claims can be divided into two types: general damages and special damages.

The term general damages refers to money paid out for physical injury, loss of future earnings plus pain and suffering, (e.g. anxiety etc). A judge decides the level of compensation to be paid out.

Special damages cover the actual losses incurred by the injured party. This would include damage to clothing, and or other belongings, the costs of care (e.g. child care), travel costs to hospital and medical expenses, including any private treatment. It might also include any costs incurred for hiring and repairing a car.

It is possible in a no win no fee accident claim, that the judge deems the claimant partially responsible. In this case damages will be reduced. For example, if the person claiming wasn’t wearing a seat belt during a car accident.

It is also important to realise that if a claimant is in receipt of social security benefits that these may be affected. In short, it is likely that any benefits received after being paid compensation from a personal injury claim, will have to be paid back.

Unfortunately, the rules relating to benefits and compensation are complex. It is therefore worthwhile seeking out specialist help.

No win no fee accident claims are now very common business amongst solicitors so this is often the best route to go down.

read comments (0)

One of the most common personal injury claims that people make as a result of a car accident relates to whiplash. This is a soft tissue injury that generally occurs in the neck area after the head has been jerked either forward or backward during an impact, which causes the neck muscles to stretch and tear. The movement is violent enough to cause pain, and the severity of the whiplash injury can range from simple pain to severe enough to require surgery. It is estimated that roughly 10% of all whiplash related injuries resulting from car accidents cause long-term disability.

Whiplash compensation claims are generally made for neck injuries directly resulting from a motor vehicle accident. Whiplash can occur even if the speed of the vehicle is exceptionally low. While some individuals make a speedy recovery, others suffer from severe pain and restricted movement for a lifetime, and require some form of whiplash compensation in order to deal with the additional medical fees related to the problem. Whiplash injuries are extremely easy to diagnose, and simply require a visit to your local physician. Once you have determined whether or not you have whiplash, you can begin working on the process of receiving whiplash compensation as a result of the accident.

Whiplash compensation as a result of car accident claims is a simple process to start. Simply contact your insurance company or local lawyer for more information on which forms are required and how to start the process of receiving your compensation.

read comments (0)

Thankfully, being injured by someone committing a crime is still a rare occurrence in this country.  If you are injured by the criminal act of another person, making a personal injury claim will be via a different procedure. Whereas claims are normally made through insurance companies as in a car accident, an injury caused as a result of a crime will be dealt with by a government scheme.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board was set up in 1964 to enable people who were injured during a criminal event to access compensation. However as it is a statutory body funded by the taxpayer the compensation amounts are strictly limited and are dependent on the type of injury sustained.  Also, injuries are assessed on the basis of common law damages so may not be as high as awards offered through a court of law.

In 1996 the Act was updated and the original board was replaced by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). This body now administers a tariff system for all applications made after the 1st April 1996.

When it was established, the CICA courted a certain amount of controversy as it was found that it did not pay out as much as was hoped. In fact, the authors of the Act stated that the scheme was not “intended to give full compensation, but should be an expression of public sympathy to victims of violent crime.”

In order to qualify for a payment, any injury sustained must be proven to have been caused directly by a criminal act.

Further information on this should be obtained from a no win no fee lawyer.

read comments (0)

Although your body may be held in place through the use of a seat belt, there are still specific types of injuries which can occur as a result of the sudden jerking motion of a motor vehicle during an accident. One of the most common types of injury as a result of car accidents is whiplash, although it is not the only type of injury that can occur as a result of being in an accident. If you are involved in any type of accident as a passenger in a vehicle and suffer some form of injury, you are entitled by law to make a no win no fee personal injury claim. Under this law you can make personal injury claims as a result of any type of injuries suffered, regardless of whether you were a passenger on a train, bus, taxi, motorcycle, or even just another car.

The no win no fee claim allows you to receive due compensation for any type of injuries suffered as a result of being a passenger in a vehicle. This free claims process allows you to receive 100% compensation, so long as the accident was someone else’s fault and you were nothing more than a passenger. The driver of the vehicle, or the company that owns the vehicle, is liable for any personal injury claim you might make. In any case where you suffer personal injury through no fault of your own, you are allowed to make a no win no fee personal injury claim under the current laws. Contact your nearest no win no fee lawyer for more information.

read comments (0)

One of the rarest forms of personal injury claims are those which are the result of poisoning. However, if you have been subjected to chemical or other types of poisoning in any way, shape or form, you could be eligible for compensation under the no win no fee system. Depending on how you were subjected to the poisoning determines the type of no win no fee claim you file. It could be a clinical negligence claim based upon chemicals you were subjected to while being hospitalized or visiting a physician’s clinic, or it could be a professional negligence claim, where you were subjected to poisonous chemicals as a result of a subcontractor coming to your home and adding Freon to your air conditioner or refrigerator and subsequently exposing you to that chemical. It could be for any number of reasons.

In order to determine exactly how you were poisoned and whether or not you are eligible for some form of no win no fee compensation, you need to contact a no win no fee solicitor at your earliest convenience to go over the details and determine whether or not you can make any personal injury claims. Chemical poisoning is a very serious matter, and regardless of whether or not it is carbon monoxide poisoning, lead poisoning, or even something as simple as food poisoning, you may have a claim worthy of compensation. If you suspect you have been the subject of poisoning, contact your physician immediately, then deal with the lawyers after you have determined the level of exposure.

read comments (0)

Car accident claims can be an extremely stressful situation for anyone involved in the process. This remains the same regardless of whether or not the individual in question is a pedestrian, driver or passenger, and even if you have not sustained serious injuries it can still be a relatively stressful procedure that requires time away from work and plenty of time spent working through legal aspects. Or does it?

In today’s legal system, the no win no fee solicitor works for you to ensure that the process is as painless as possible, and helps you to make any sort of personal injury claims as a result of negligence on the part of the defendant. If you do end up making a personal injury claim, the insurers of the individual responsible for the accident are required by law to cover the costs of the claim, as well as any sort of compensation you are awarded under the no win no fee laws in place.

It is required by law for all individuals driving a motor vehicle to have the relevant insurance coverage so that if an accident occurs everyone involved is covered by the insurance, meaning that anyone suffering from a car accident is entitled by law to be compensated for their losses and expenses as well as any stress and suffering endured. Under the no win no fee arrangement, you can make a claim even if you are financially strapped, because the insurance companies are required by law to cover your fees.

read comments (0)