Information, guidance and comment on Personal In jury Compensation Claims, how to make them and the laws surrounding them.
If you have an accident and suffer injury, you’ll likely choose to make a personal injury claim. The claim will be against the person or organisation responsible for the accident. You may ask a personal injury solicitor to take on the compensation claim for you. Once you have chosen the ...
What a difference a few months can make. According to an article of the 12th of January 2021, in the Guardian newspaper, UK gyms, pools and leisure centres were teetering 'on a financial cliff edge' unless they received more government support, as the impact of a further Covid lockdown started ...
What does personal injury law come under? Personal injury law cases are dealt with under civil law. If you suffer injury in an accident caused by someone else’s negligence (carelessness) you may want to seek recompense from them. You will therefore bring a personal injury claim against them. The case ...
We hear the terms ‘personal injury cases’ and ‘personal injury claims’ being bandied about all the time. However, what exactly do we mean by a ‘personal injury case’ or a ‘personal injury claim’? What is a personal injury case? At its most basic level, the definition of a personal injury ...
Contrary to what the press would have you believe, the idea that there is some kind of ‘compensation culture’ in this country, is a myth that has been bandied about for many years by the government and the insurance industry, using sections of the national press to act as their ...
If you have the misfortune to be injured in a car accident, accident at work or an accident in a public place that you believe was not your fault, you'd be forgiven for thinking that you won't be short of choice when it comes to getting a solicitor to take ...
We hear so much on the radio and TV about making a claim for personal injury, if you’ve had an accident that was not your fault. We may have already got a view about these types of accident compensation claims. Over and above that how much do people really know ...
The Law Society Gazette recently published an article that reported on the findings of a mystery shopping exercise carried out by a marketing collective. It was a simple exercise. Mystery Shoppers contacted 52 firms of personal injury solicitors by telephoning their offices during working hours and then again in the ...
You could be forgiven for having missed possibly the most important government announcement of the past few weeks (no, not that one!). Forgiven, that is, unless you are a personal injury solicitor, or you work for an insurance company. In one of his last acts before resigning as the justice ...
The phrase 'personal injury claim' gets a raw deal in the press. ‘Compensation’ too, is a word that is more often than not used in a less than complimentary fashion. ‘Compensation culture’ has become a catch phrase of insurance companies and even in government circles. Other phrases that are bandied ...