Personal Injury Claim Specialists
Do I Have a Claim?
The short answer is YES! – if you’ve been injured or suffered a loss in an accident that wasn’t your fault. Of course every accident is different and you’ll need advice as to how you should go about dealing with your accident claim. The general rule is that if you have been involved in an accident the start position is that you do on the face of it have a claim.
The real question is – will I win?
The law is there to prevent individuals from being in accidents in the first place and if an accident has happened the law is also there to compensate the injured party and sometimes penalise the responsible party. You can claim for almost any type of injury that you have suffered as a result of somebody else’s fault. If you have already spoken to a Solicitor who was not that optimistic about your claim you should nevertheless get a second opinion because Solicitors specialise in different areas of law even in the accident compensation field and you may have spoken with a Solicitor who did not have particular expertise in the area of accident claim that you have been involved in.
Horses for courses
For example if you have suffered a slip and fall or slip and trip accident and you have spoken to a Solicitor who deals with road accident claims you may not have been properly advised . Here at Accident Claim Centre we specialist in putting our clients in touch with the right Solicitor in other words a Solicitor who has had vast experience with dealing with different areas of law. If you suffered a road accident we will send you to a Solicitor who specialises in dealing with road accident claims. If you have been injured as a result of Doctors or Hospitals negligence we will send you to an accedited clinical negligence Solicitors who don’t deal with road accidents but deal exclusively with clinical negligence cases. As far as we are concerned it is horses for courses and our panel of Solicitors are exactly tha t- specialists!. We want to make sure that you not only get a good Solicitor but the right Solicitor to handle your case. That being so it is still important to consider the following fundamental legal points which of course will also be considered by your Solicitor at the outset namely :-
Do I have someone to sue and if so is it worth suing them?
It is all very well having suffered an injury as a result of somebody else’s fault but we need to make sure (and this is part of your Solicitors job too) that we not only identify the responsible party but also work out whether that Defendant has got insurance to meet the claim, especially if the Defendant is a man of straw, and also we correctly identify and locate the Defendant. By way of example it is very sad when somebody suffers a dog biting attack and we are very keen to try and help that client. If the client was attacked by a stray dog without any apparent owner it is close to impossible to succeed in the claim for the accident victim. Similarly if someone has been attacked by a dog and we know who the owner is but they are poor and for example live in Council accommodation and they have no insurance then there’s no real point in acting for a client and suing that person because any Judgment obtained is unlikely to be satisfied. However, these are issues for the solicitors to decide and we would rather you contact us and then we can advise you accordingly and without any charge.
Getting the Evidence (On the circumstances)
After you’ve had an accident and instruct us we’ll send the case to the most appropriate specialist accident solicitor who has experience in dealing with your type of claim. The evidence gathering process will commence immediately and your solicitor will request appropriate documentation depending on the type of accident you have been involved in. Such documentation may for example include a Police accident Report Book, letters and wage slips from Employers, instructing an Automotive Engineer (looking at the impact damage on a vehicle for example), requesting information from lay witnesses … the list of evidence gathering goes on. However it is all with the aim of disclosing to your opponent and his insurers with a view to establishing or proving liability rests with the defendant Once liability has been resolved your solicitor will move on to the next evidence gathering stage.
Medical and Other Evidence on Value
Once your Solicitor is getting on with the evidence gathering on liability even though all that evidence is not yet to hand if your Solicitor is satisfied that you will win the case (which is often based on your initial instructions to him) he may well arrange for you to be medically examined and that a medical report be obtained to support your claim for the injuries you have suffered. It is crucial that documentary evidence is obtained in connection with all the losses you have suffered and a medical report is critical if you suffered an injury. If your vehicle has been damaged then an Engineers report showing the extent of the damages is also required. We are confident that our expert Solicitors will obtain all the appropriate documentary evidence.
How much money will I get?
It is important to do first things first and choose the right advisors in the first place. Please click here for our on line submission of your claim to get the ball rolling immediately. Once you have submitted the claim we would like to make contact with you and obtain as much information and detail as to the circumstances as to what has happened and then refer you claim to the most appropriate Solicitor who we believe will maximise your claim for compensation. To work out how much you are going to receive please click here for our Compensation Calculator but bear in mind this is only in relation to your claim for injuries. Generally the more severe the injury the more compensation damages you are going to receive not least because the more serious the injury the more time you will have had off work and loss of earnings also forms part of your claim. Anybody telling you what your claim is worth immediately after the accident is basically clutching at straws because it is very difficult to tell how long it will be before you make a full recovery. This can only be calculated by an appropriate medical expert who examines you at least 2 months after the accident has occurred so that your injuries have been given an opportunity to stabilise.
Can I claim with Accident Claim Centre?
Of course you can. We want to help you claim compensation and if it’s at all possible and would like the opportunity of discussing your claim with you. You are under no obligation to take things further whether you have a good claim or not and of course it will give you the chance to find out whether we can help you and to explain the process in more detail. We are confident that you will find our people very straight forward and easy to deal with and will be very satisfied with the level of service both we and our specialist accident Solicitors provide.