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The big question! We’ve blogged about this a lot recently, so for those of you who are still in the dark, I have some good and bad news for you.

The Bad News

Let’s start with the bad news first. If you make a claim for personal injury compensation, law firms are likely going to take up to 25% of your compensation and ask you to pay an insurance premium for After The Event insurance.  The reason for this is down to our wonderful government destroying years of access to justice and helping the insurers maintain their massive profit margins by stopping law firms recovering certain fees from the opponent.

For years now, people have been able to get 100% because their lawyer was entitled to recover all fees from the opponent. That’s fair right? Why should the innocent victim have to pay to claim? But in these critical political times, our government decided to stop lawyers recovering all fees resulting in the innocent victims being charged.
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Commonly a claim for personal injury for tripping will either be pursued against an employer if it was at work, against an occupier if it was in a public place like a shop, or the council if it was on public grounds. The difference between who is potentially at fault actually has a significant impact on how good your claim is; so to make things easy, I’ll split this article up for you in to three sections for each of the above.

Tripping Accident at Work

There are all sorts of rules and regulations that employers are duty bound to adhere to. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 have a specific section for this as follows:
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With people rushing around in an effort to catch their train on time, despite most stations having faster clocks to try and dupe you in to thinking it’s later than it is, it’s no wonder that accidents in train stations are very common. The most common ones are slips and trips, and the Occupiers Liability Act imposes a duty on those in charge of the station to take all reasonable steps to prevent accidents occurring.
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There are loads of employment regulations that your employer is duty bound to follow. They exist to protect you from being injured whilst working. Let’s face it – all jobs come with hazards, and when it comes to working with electrical equipment and machinery, which is a part of almost every job, there are certain things that can go wrong.

The human body is a great conductor of electricity, so if you are exposed to something, you are liable to end up getting shocked. A piece of exposed wiring, or water near an electrical switch could end up with an injury. So what’s the duty, and can you sue your employer for personal injury compensation if you receive an electric shock at work?

Commonly its machinery that will shock you, so the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 apply. The great thing about these regulations is that Regulation 5 can impose a strict liability on your employer. This means they may have no choice but to pay you compensation if you are injured because a piece of equipment has somehow become defective. If you innocently use it and end up getting an electric shock, the regulations should apply.
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If you are shopping around for the perfect lawyer to represent you for your claim for personal injury compensation, you may fall within one of the following common categories

1. You have yet to speak to anyone and you are unaware of the recent legal reforms that have left lawyers charging clients for making a claim.
2. You have spoken to a few firms and found they will all deduct 25% from your payout and perhaps even ask you to pay for insurance for your case.
3. You thought you’d found a good lawyer until you got their paperwork and discovered they had neglected to inform you they are taking 25% of your payout and asking for insurance payment!

The above is based on what we have found from the thousands of people who contact us. So whether you have found this article by searching for lawyers in general and had no idea about the changes, or whether you are hunting for the “Holy Grail” that is a genuine 100% compensation offer, you can look no further!
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Drivers owe a duty of care to their passengers just as much as they do to other users of the highway – whether this be to other drivers or pedestrians. One of the main things to know is that, as a passenger in a collision, you probably have a guaranteed claim for personal injury compensation.

As a passenger, unless you did something reckless and crazy like distract the driver or pull on the handbrake, the collision was likely out of your control. As such, you’re innocent. Either the driver of the vehicle you are in or another road user was responsible for what has happened, so you can claim of either party depending on who is at fault.
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Whiplash is usually a lot more complicated than most people think. If you have never suffered from it, you probably don’t have much regard for a person making a whiplash claim. But if you have or are suffering from it, you’ll know it is a real injury and it can be an absolute pain. I’ve had it myself.

So if you want to make a whiplash personal injury compensation claim, how much should you receive? Is it worth making a whiplash claim?
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The general rule of thumb is that if you are already established on a roundabout and another driver emerges on to the roundabout and crashes in to you, they are at fault. The driver merging on to the roundabout must give precedence to a driver already on the roundabout.

In some situations drivers could read a situation wrong and think you are turning off when you are not. If you are not indicating, they may assume you are coming off of the exit before the entrance they are emerging from. But the general rule of thumb still applies – if you are established on the roundabout and another vehicle emerges in to you, they are at fault.
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Even though the law changed on April 1st, meaning other lawyers will now take up to 25% of your personal injury compensation claim, we are still offering you the opportunity to keep all 100% of your compensation.

The new rules mean that lawyers are unable to recover all of their legal fees from the other side. But instead of taking the money that is rightfully yours, we’re taking the hit instead. Why? Because we are a national firm of specialist personal injury lawyers who take on and win such a high volume of cases that we can afford to take the hit.
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Many people never bother putting in a claim for compensation, even when they are entitled to do so. One of the biggest fears is losing the claim. So we address the big question – is it worth the hassle and the cost?

First things first, we operate a genuine no win, no fee basis. We only take your claim on if we think we have a good enough chance of winning the case. If we don’t win, we write off our fees so we don’t get paid. It’s a cost benefit analysis for us – are we prepared to fund the case on the basis that we might not be paid?
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