• Personal Injury -

• A guide to claims

Personal injury can mean lots of things, from cuts and bruises caused by tripping over in the street; to losing a limb in a road traffic accident; to hurting your back at work; to a botched operation due to medical negligence.

Generally speaking, if you have suffered a personal injury due to the actions of someone else, you may be entitled to compensation.

Apart from the actual pain and suffering that you have endured, injuries have other effects too. For example, your injury could have prevented you from working, or enjoying your favourite hobbies. Making a claim for compensation can be particularly helpful if you need to compensate for loss of earnings.

So now that we have explained what a personal injury could be, let’s look at the claims process. The process is similar for claims for road traffic accidents, work injuries and injuries sustained at someone else’s premises.

• First, you need a lawyer to assess whether your claim has any chance of succeeding. Reasons for a claim not succeeding include inadequate evidence and any behaviour on your part that may have contributed to the accident.

• 100% Compensation offers a free assessment of claims, where a member of the team will go through the circumstances of the accident and offer a recommendation about the way forward. If you are advised that your claim stands a strong chance of success, your instructions will be confirmed, and the claims process set in motion.

• The next stage in making a personal injury claim is a letter to the other party’s representatives. In most of the types of accident we mentioned above, the person responsible is likely to be insured. Employers should have employers’ liability insurance, and road users should have motor insurance. So you may find that your claims lawyer will be dealing with the other party’s insurance company from the very beginning.
  

• So what happens next in a claim depends on whether the insurance company wants to make a decent offer for settlement. If it is a clear cut case, the insurer is likely to make an offer. The question is: is it an offer you cannot refuse?

• At 100% Compensation we give no nonsense advice on the settlements that are offered. Often there are more than one offer in the claims process, as the parties negotiate towards a mutually acceptable conclusion. An offer of settlement will include compensation for your injury, and will also cover our costs.
  

• If the parties cannot reach agreement about the amount of damages, the case will proceed to court, where a judge will decide whether you are entitled to compensation, and if so, how much.

• We do not deduct anything from your personal injury compensation, whether it is awarded by a court or received as a result of a settlement.

Have you had a personal injury? 100% Compensation can help you get the compensation you deserve, completely free of charge.

1. Fill in the 2 minute 'Free Online Claim Assessment Form'
2. Contact us on any of the following numbers: 08707 02 02 02 or 0800 197 8567
3. Email us at accidenthelp@100percent-compensation.co.uk or
4. Fill in the call back form and we shall call you back at your convenience.

Please note the service we provide is confidential and it won't even cost you for trying.

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I would recommend with confidence."

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"I'm very pleased with 100% Compenstation, everything is going along smoothly and I've been treated very well. Everything has been made easy and the solicitor was very nice and understanding."

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