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How to Make a Compensation Claim
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.
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