CAR ACCIDENT COMPENSATION CLAIMS SOLICITOR

Legal Claim UK deal with car accident compensation claims throughout the United Kingdom. If you have been injured in an accident within the last three years, that wasn’t your fault, you should contact us without delay. Our lawyers are members the Solicitors Regulation Authority panel of personal injury experts and deal with car accident compensation claims using the no win no fee scheme. Damages are paid in full with no deductions. Win or lose there is no charge. Our no win no fee scheme is risk free and you do not have to pay anything as the case proceeds. You will receive a complete professional service from lawyers who specialise in claiming damages for personal injury.

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Uninsured Drivers

If you have suffered a personal injury in an accident within the last three years that was not your fault, you can usually make a car accident compensation claim against the negligent 3rd party driver. Most motorists are insured and a claim is effectively made against the insurers however a significant percentage of drivers are uninsured and in these cases a claim must be made to the ‘Motor Insurers Bureau’ (MIB) which is a fund set up to compensate the victims of uninsured or untraced drivers. The MIB has complex technical rules and these cases should always be supervised by a solicitor to ensure that the opportunity to claim is not lost due to an inadvertent breach of the regulations.

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Negligence

To make a successful car accident compensation claim you need to be able to prove that the collision was not your fault and that someone else was responsible. That means that it is necessary to prove negligence. In simple terms negligence is a failure to take reasonable care for the safety of others. Even if a driver is partly to blame, it is still possible to claim against the other party using the doctrine of ‘contributory negligence’. This means that if the accident was 30% your fault, then any damages that would otherwise have been paid by the other driver’s insurers on a full liability basis are reduced by 30%. This type of arrangement does of course open the door for the other driver to claim 30% of his full liability damages against your insurers.

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Family Relationship

Certain classes of claimant can never be held to contribute including passengers who will always recover damages in full not withstanding that it may have been their own driver, who may be a close relative, who was at fault. One spouse will often make a car accident compensation claim against their husband or wife, if they are injured in an accident caused by their own driver’s negligence. Degrees of family relationship are irrelevant when considering compensation for negligence.

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Specialist Personal Injury Solicitors

Notwithstanding that car accident compensation claim settlements are commonplace there are large numbers of solicitors who deal with them as only part of their workload and could not by any stretch of the imagination be described as experts. Our solicitors deal exclusively in accident claims involving personal injury and many of them deal only with car accident compensation claims. Whilst almost any firm of solicitors will take on one of these claims, it might no be to your advantage to use a lawyer who is not engaged in this type of work on a full time basis. We can guarantee that your case will be handled by a specialist personal injury solicitor who is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

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Damages Awards

Compensation awarded in car accident compensation claims is divided into two main categories :-

Special Damages represents compensation for items that can be calculated accurately and includes lost wages, medical expenses, damaged property and general expenses.

General Damages represents compensation for items that must be assessed by a Judge which includes pain and suffering, damages for loss of a desirable life style and loss of opportunity on the open labour market in the future.

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Assessment

The assessment of damages for pain and suffering in car accident compensation claims is a matter of great difficulty. Money can never adequately compensate for physical injury however Judges use the wisdom of previously decided cases and are guided by a publication from 'The Judicial Studies Board' which sets out the basic figures applicable for various types of injury.