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Roundabout Accident Compensation Lawyers
My experience tells me that some people find using roundabouts daunting. Roundabouts can be of varying size – some have traffic lights on them and some are busier than others. Because of this some people get nervous on approaching a roundabout and some people go further than this and take a route which avoids roundabouts altogether.
This uncertainty or ‘fear’ of roundabouts can unfortunately cause accidents and at The Injury Lawyers we have successfully dealt with many roundabout accident claims. If you were not at fault for your accident, you could well be entitled to compensation.
One of the most common problems with roundabouts, particularly those drivers are not familiar with them, is that people are unsure which lane they should be in and start to hesitate or make rash decisions. This can cause accidents because you either get cut up by someone switching lanes or if someone suddenly stops someone else may go into the back of this vehicle.
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Pre-Medical Offers – Lawyers Advice
It’s not unusual to receive a pre-medical offer nowadays. A pre-medical offer is an offer made in respect of your injuries before you get a medical report. The usual claims process is for you to attend a medical appointment with a medical expert once liability for your accident has been admitted so that a legal medical report can be obtained.
If you are happy with this, it will be disclosed to the Defendant and they will have a period of 21 days to make you an offer of compensation and negotiations can go from there. More often now, we are coming across Defendant’s making offers to settle your claim prior to you getting a medical report.
Is this a problem?
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If you have been involved in a road traffic accident and you were a passenger in one of the vehicles involved, you have excellent prospects of a successful claim for compensation.
Even better, under a new system to deal with claims, you should get your compensation fast!
The reason you have excellent prospects of a successful claim are simple – it is highly unlikely that as a passenger you were to blame for the accident. Short of severely distracting the driver, grabbing the steering wheel or pulling the handbrake, I cannot think of many circumstances where a passenger can be held to have caused a road traffic accident. It doesn’t matter whether you were the passenger in the vehicle at fault either; you are still the innocent party and can be compensated al the same.
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Road Traffic Accident – Whiplash Compensation Calculator
If you have been injured in a road traffic accident that was not your fault, you are entitled to get the maximum amount of compensation that you deserve. But how much compensation can you expect to receive for your whiplash injury?
Although the amount of compensation varies from person to person, here at The Injury Lawyers we are experts in the field of whiplash compensation claims – so here is a quick guide to help determine the amount of whiplash compensation you may receive.
Obviously we here at The Injury Lawyers work harder to get you the maximum amount of compensation that you deserve. We can prove that with our high levels of service.
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At The Injury Lawyers we have found that some people don’t seem to realise that if they were the innocent passenger injured in a car crash, they have one of the best prospects of a successful claim for compensation you can get.
It doesn’t matter whether the accident was the fault of the driver who’s car you were in or whether the accident was caused by some other vehicle – you were the passenger, and unless you did something daft like pull the handbrake, grab the steering wheel or severely distract the driver to cause the accident, there is little way you can be said to have been at fault for the accident.
More often than not liability for your accident and injuries will be admitted straightaway, and it’s just a matter of getting medical evidence and settling your claim, which doesn’t take long at all.
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Road Traffic Accident Compensation Lawyers
Claiming for injury compensation from road traffic accidents is dead easy; especially since a new system was introduced in April 2010 which made the process faster and less complicated.
Nowadays you can get the other side to admit liability in 3 or so weeks and once that’s done it’s just a matter of getting medical evidence and settling your claim which doesn’t take that long either.
The first stage of the new process is to submit a Claim Notification Form. This a simple form which just details what happened in your accident and names the people and vehicles involved. It gets submitted online via the Ministry of Justice portal and the Defendant then has just 1 business day to acknowledge it and then a further 15 business days to admit or deny liability.
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Whiplash Compensation Lawyers – How much?
If I was given just a penny for each time I was asked how much someone’s whiplash claim was worth, I would be a very rich man! (Well, almost!). It is one of the most common, if not the most common, questions we get asked at The Injury Lawyers.
In the vast majority of whiplash claims we deal with, the innocent victim has been involved in a straightforward accident; say someone has driven into the back of their car, or hit them head on or pulled out of a side road into them.
These are claims where it should be easy to get an admission from the Defendant because it was clearly their fault and you would have thought that the amount of compensation people get will be similar. Thing is, whiplash is a funny old injury that affects people in different ways, so the amount of compensation can differ a lot.
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The Injury Lawyers Whiplash Compensation Guide
At The Injury Lawyers, we are expert injury lawyers having successfully dealt with thousands of personal injury claims over the last few years. As such we know that whiplash is one of, if not the most, common injuries to come out of a road traffic accident. We also realise that although people have heard of whiplash, they are not entirely sure what whiplash is and whether they are suffering from it. Here’s a little guide:
What is whiplash?
Whiplash is a soft tissue injury that affects your head, neck, shoulder, and back area. It is where you strain the muscles and tendons in these parts.
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Uninsured Compensation Claim Injury Lawyers
If you have been in a road traffic accident with an uninsured driver which was not your fault, you can be compensated for any injuries you have picked up.
Usually, it would be a matter of making a claim through the negligent drivers’ insurance company, but in this case the driver didn’t have insurance. Not to worry, because back in 1946 the Motor Insurers’ Bureau was set up to deal with claims for compensation arising from the negligence of uninsured drivers.
In most cases it will be best to go through the Motor Insurers’ Bureau because the Defendant themselves is unlikely to be worth personally suing; in other words, they aren’t likely to have the money to pay your compensation. They didn’t have insurance after all! Each year, from everyone’s insurance premiums, about £15.00 to £30.00 is put in the Motor Insurers’ Bureau’s compensation fund so that the innocent victims of negligence can be compensated. It would be unjust if because someone didn’t bother to get insurance and you were unable to be compensated as a result.
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Pre-Med Compensation Offers – Lawyers Advice
Nowadays receiving a ‘pre-med’ offer in respect of compensation for your injuries is common. What I mean by a ‘pre-med’ offer is a pre-medical offer – i.e. an offer made to you by the Defendant without medical evidence having been sought.
The normal procedure in the claims process is to obtain medical evidence after the Defendant has admitted liability. Medical evidence is important because it allows your injuries to be properly diagnosed and detailed so you can find out how long a medical expert believes you will be suffering for. The general rule is that the more severe and long lasting your injury is, the more it is worth. Naturally, having a medical report allows your claim to be properly valued by confirming this.
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