Information, guidance and comment on Personal In jury Compensation Claims, how to make them and the laws surrounding them.
Judges who decide what a personal injury claim is worth at court and solicitors who advise clients on whether to settle a case before it goes to court do so by using a mixture of tools at their disposal to help them decide on the value of a claim. The ...
This is an updated version of the blog initially published on the 31st of July 2020. Amongst other reasons, it has now been updated to consider, in April 2022, the effect of the publication of the 16th edition of the Judicial College, 'Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in ...
This article was originally published in November 2019. It was last updated in April 2022. Fatal accidents can happen in any walk of life. However, some types of accidents are more likely to cause fatal injuries than others. The Department of Transport's statistics reveal that 1390 people died due to road ...
The term PPE became synonymous with the heroics of front-line healthcare staff during the Covid pandemic. At the same time nurses were battling to save lives, many of them said they were being provided with inadequate PPE, and as a result, their own health was being put at risk. As ...
“Please, please, please, may I go on the bouncy castle …...?” Parents of young children will be familiar with this kind of question from their little ones. After all, when we take our youngsters to fun fairs, amusement parks, or other organised events that have bouncy castles as part of ...
*This article was first published in December 2020 and was updated with new guidance in March 2022. Whether you ask a solicitor to make a personal injury claim on your behalf or you decide to deal with your own claim, there is a set format for the way that the ...
All personal injury claims have a time limit on how long you can leave it before bringing a claim to court. The period between the accident or incident and making a claim is known as ‘the limitation period’. What is the difference between “bringing” a claim to court and having ...
This article was originally published on 1st June 2020 and was updated on 16th February 2022. 1. The Scene of the Accident Your priority after being involved in an accident is to ensure your own safety. If it isn’t an emergency but you’d like medical advice, call the NHS non-emergency ...
Not all personal injury claims are straightforward in terms of working out who was at fault for the accident. Sometimes it could be a case of ‘six of one and half a dozen of the other’, or in slightly more legal terms, a case of ‘split liability’. Split liability in ...
This article was originally published in February 2022 and was updated in November 2022. A surprising number of people do not claim personal injury compensation after an accident that wasn’t their fault. A detailed report by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) ten years ago revealed that over 40% ...