As a specialist injury law firm, we help people who are suffering with a range of injuries from the minor to the life changing. Many accident victims come to us when they are badly hurt because of our unique experience as expert personal injury lawyers, and Ms D made the right choice in instructing us to help her with her work accident claim.
We successfully fought for a great payout of £25,000 for her injury compensation claim.
Ms D was unfortunately injured when she tripped over boxes that a colleague had negligently left in the incorrect place. They were instructed to be moved to a safe storage area but instead they were left in a traffic route and Ms D was unable to see them. She tripped and sustained several injuries as a result of the nasty fall.
Her employer admitted liability but they tried to allege that Ms D was partially to blame for the incident. They alleged that Ms D didn’t provide strict instructions when the boxes were meant to be moved but they provided no evidence whatsoever to support this. Insurers will often try and limit what they have to pay out by making these allegations, so we expect this sort of thing to happen.
Having written to them and pointed this out, they tried to say that they didn’t need any evidence to support their allegations and they adjusted their proportion of blame to 1/3rd when they were initially suggesting Ms D was 50% to blame. It’s worth mentioning that Ms D is partially sighted and this is something her employer was fully aware of.
As is prudent in these sorts of scenarios, we instructed a barrister to provide their support that our client was entitled to 100% of her claim. Naturally the barrister was supportive of our case given the lack of evidence from the insurers and given the fact she is partially sighted. Like I said earlier – insurers love to try and save money by trying to place proportions of blame on to incident accident victims.
Unlike other law firms who may cower at such arguments, we fight for our clients all the way. We applied pressure by issuing and serving formal court proceedings whilst we continued to obtain specialist medical evidence and helped our client with provide treatment. The extent of the muscular injuries and loss to Ms D was fairly significant and we put even more pressure on the opponent with an offer to settle.
We really don’t mess around!
The other side, now represented by solicitors since we had issued and served formal court proceeding, offered £25,000 which was more than acceptable given our view of the value of the case. Our client accepted the amount and the case was settled.
In her testimonial Ms D was naturally more than happy with the ‘quality service’ we have offered – in particular in relation to the private medical help we arranged.
As a standard we can assist with private medical care and it can really add value to an accident victim’s claim. She confirmed she would be happy to recommend our services to anyone who needs them.
Helping people is what we do – so for expert advice and representation, call 0800 634 7575 today.
