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What to know the secret to a successful claim for personal injury compensation? Well, read on for the three step guide to claiming the right way and maximising the potential of your compensation case:

Go Direct to an Injury Lawyer – Avoid Claims Companies, Insurers, and Middlemen

To get the advice and representation you need, go directly to a proper personal injury lawyer. Claims management companies, insurers, brokers, or any other middlemen are not lawyers. Sure, they can probably give you some advice; but they’re not qualified to run a personal injury claim from start to finish – so what do they really know?
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Car accident claims – the most common form of personal injury claims there is. There’s one heck of a competitive industry for car accident claims, and there are right ways, and very wrong ways, to go about making a claim after a road accident.

So – please take this advice seriously

If you have a car accident that wasn’t your fault, it’s more than likely you have a successful claim for compensation. It’s quite easy to establish who is at fault after a road accident – so in many straight forward instances, you have a claim.
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Sustaining an injury at work can be a trying time for the victim involved. You may feel that the accident should never have been allowed to happen. You may feel your employers are responsible, and they should do something about it. You may want to claim but you are worried about the backlash from your boss.

The answers are here: read on for a quick guide on what to do in this situation, and what you’re rights are.

Do You Have a Valid Claim?

There are numerous health and safety rules and regulations your employers must legally bide by; particularly in industries involving foreseeable and obvious hazards, such as a building site or a chemical plant. These rules and regulations are there to maintain the duty of care your employers have for you and to prevent you from coming to harm.
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We are all still seeing the effects of the winter madness over December last year that brought Britain to a standstill after seeing some of the most severe snow showers in years. The effects we are still feeling are the pesky potholes which have littered our roads and pathways since the big freeze; caused by water seeping in to cracks in the surface, freezing, and expanding, pushing and cracking the concrete, and forming hundreds – if not thousands – of potholes.

Unfortunately, claiming against the council can be quite a difficult process – so it’s always best to get a top quality injury lawyer on the case to increase your chances of success. The reason it is difficult is because of the legislation we have in place concerning the maintenance and repair of our highways. In reality, the local authority in charge of a stretch of highway is only responsible for the reasonable and practice inspection, maintenance, and repair duties.

But what does this mean?
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For any drivers out there, you probably know where I’m coming from for this article. I do a lot of driving on a weekly basis which involves a long 40 minute to an hour commute on motorways to and from work twice a week when I visit my partner (she doesn’t drive – so it’s always me clocking up the miles!). In my time of driving I have had my fair share of near misses (me being blameless in all), and I unfortunately happen to go across a few roundabout well known in my area to be a bit of a hotspot for accidents and traffic jams.

Every time I see an accident or avoid one myself, it really hits home just how easy it is to end up involved in a road accident. For many it can be a little scary and confusing, as you just don’t know what to do, and you may have already been inundated with calls from your insurers, claims companies, and even solicitors you have never even spoken to offering you money and services.

Well – step back, take a breather, and have a read of this article for what you should be doing if you end up involved in an accident that wasn’t your fault.
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You’ve probably seen the adverts in the past where people have slipped on a wet floor and caused themselves an injury. The idea of slipping on a dangerous floor has even become the punch line of many jokes for those that either don’t understand or misconceive the concept of claiming for compensation.

If you have slipped over and injured yourself in a premises owned by someone else, you may have a claim for compensation.

Ultimately, an injury from a slipping accident is not a nice thing to endure. In fact, it can be the cause of serious injury – which is why the rules and regulations are in place to ensure owners take proper responsibility for their premises.
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What is No Win No Fee? What does it mean? Is it true that it does exactly what it says on the tin? I know it’s a common term nowadays, but do any of you understand what it actually involves?

There are actually multiple answers to this question – but realistically, it all comes down to which lawyer you choose to represent you.

What Happens if You Lose?

If your compensation claim fails to succeed, under a No Win No Fee, you should not be liable for any of your lawyer’s fees. The reason I say should is because there are lawyers out there who are prepared to be sneaky and may try and get something out of you.
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We all use equipment at work – ranging from the trusty pen in the office, to a pneumatic drill on a building site. With any work equipment that is potentially dangerous, there are health and safety rules and regulations that you and your employer need to abide by in order to prevent an accident at work occurring.

If you are injured due to work equipment provided to you by your employer, you may have a claim for compensation.

There are several areas this covers –

• The provision of suitable work equipment where necessary
• The regular inspection and maintenance of work equipment you use – which ranges from handled tools to factory machinery
• The replacement of any outdated or overly used equipment
• Training in how to use work equipment safely

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Whiplash can be a nasty injury to suffer with. But it begs the question – can you claim for a whiplash injury? When will you recover? How much are you entitled to claim for?

As a whiplash specialist, I can answer your questions! (well, as best as I can!)

If you are involved in an accident that was not your fault, you can make a whiplash injury claim. Normally, whiplash occurs after a road accident; caused by the sudden jolting of your neck, stretching your valuable body tissue further than its normal range of movement.
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I dodged yet another pothole on the way to work this morning – it’s getting to be rather tedious if I’m honest. OK, so I know the councils budgets are rather stretched thanks to the giant pair of scissors that are David Cameron’s hands; but something needs to be done about it. In fact, if anyone watched Channel 4’s Selling Off Britain on Monday night, you might agree that there is room for a bit of financial redistribution to help us sort out the meteor craters littering our roads.

But – Where does the genuine duty lie? What are the councils and highways authorities responsible to do? You’d be tempted to say “naff all” given the current state of the roads; but there is a duty there.  Under the Highways Act 1980, local authorities responsible for the highways have an important duty to ensure that the highway is reasonably and regularly inspected and maintained. What is classed as “reasonable” is largely down to the authorities themselves; they can range from monthly inspections, to three monthly, bi-annually, or even annual only inspections. It’s all about what is deemed to be reasonable and practical.

If a pothole or defect is reported, the rules change a little. The council now must make the area safe – either by reparations or cordoning off of the area etc, as soon as is reasonably possible. Again, that lovely ambiguous word “reasonable” is in there. How this can be measured is hard to tell. At the end of the day, it’s likely the local authority will put forward the “public purse” argument as to why they are not able to satisfy the safety of highway users.
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