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There are numerous types of accidents that can occur on boats and ships that can lead to a personal injury claim. For example trip and slips, food poisoning, getting on and off the ship or boat, the ship colliding with another ship or object, sporting accidents and accidents at work, for example if you work on a boat or ship.

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If you have been the victim of crime that as resulted in you sustaining injuries it may be possible for you to claim compensation. Criminal injury cases are progressed through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority or the CICA. This is a government body that evaluates the criminal injuries sustained and then using their tariff system confirms whether the victim of the crime is eligible to receive compensation.

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Legal expense insurance is often included in many car insurance and home insurance policies. It is an aspect of your insurance that usually covers you for legal fees in the event of a non-fault accident claim. For example, if you were involved in a RTA (Road Traffic Accident) and require legal assistance your motor insurance policy may cover you through legal expense insurance.

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Beware of third party capture! Following a personal injury accident where you are the innocent injured party such as a Road Traffic Accident, you will be approached by numerous people; the police, car hire companies, solicitors, the third party and their insurers. It is at this time when the third party insurers may attempt to settle any claim for compensation as soon as possible, by making you an offer of damages immediately following your accident.

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Whiplash is caused as a result of the head being thrown back and forth beyond its normal confines, due to a sudden collision. Therefore, incurring a whiplash injury as a result of a Road Traffic Accident is extremely common. The neck becomes injured as a result of the impact felt by the accident and can result in long term suffering and injury such as; back ache, neck pain, shoulder pain, headache, dizziness, pains in your legs and arms and nausea.

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Suffering a fall outside can be a nasty experience, on most occasions we get lucky and escape with a grazed knee and a slight feeling of embarrassment. However, there are times when loosing your footing can lead to severe injury such as a broken bone or extremely bad head wound. It is even worse news when you realise that your severe injury and fall was due to the negligence of others.

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Do you really get something for free? Is there not always a catch or a hidden cost thinly veiled behind a free offer? In the majority of cases it is always best to be careful of those ‘too-good-to-true-deals’, but when it comes to 100% Compensation Claims I’d say, ‘Do your homework!’ For those of you who may not be sure what 100% Compensation Claims are, I’ll try and get you up-to-speed quickly.

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Lady Luck can sometimes deal us a bad hand and occasionally, we can find ourselves at the wrong end of an accident, suffering an injury, through no fault of our own. In these types of events there are laws in place to help a person claim compensation for their injury and also to make sure that a similar accident does not happen again to someone else.

A professional injury lawyer / solicitor is the best person to contact if you have been unfortunate enough to have been injured from an accident that was not entirely your fault. Why choose a professional injury lawyer to oversee your compensation claim. We’ll here are 5 reasons you should really consider before you try an alternative way to claim your compensation.

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It’s difficult to think that anyone could really suffer a serious injury working in an office environment. I mean it’s not like a building site or even a factory shop floor yet a high number of office workers suffer injury that can keep them out of employment for months on end. One of the most common injuries suffered by office workers is repetitive strain injury estimated to cost British businesses around £300million a year in lost working hours.

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Defective products come in many forms such as high heel shoes that snap and break your ankle or a top breaks apart and injures a child to the brakes in a car failing and causing a traffic accident leaving the driver with whiplash. In these instances of a product being defective and causing an injury to a person there is a good chance that a compensation claim will be awarded.

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