Anyway, back to business. You go to the meeting with the chosen solicitor and you get interviewed by him. He asks you everything related to the case and you answer him honestly, because you don’t want to sabotage your own claim. If you have some pieces of evidence, it’s even better. They are like gold. Your lawyer will double-check them anyway and will look for more, but it certainly is a very good place to start. Now, he will tell you how much compensation you can REALLY get and you say to yourself “Now that’s more like it. It’s all starting to make sense”. And now you have your lawyer ’s powerful negotiation skills at your disposal. That’s an important weapon. But wait. “The lawyer may cost me more than my compensation”, you may be thinking. Again, that’s not true. There’s a little thing called no win no fee arrangement, or conditional fee agreement, how it is technically called. Working under such an agreement gives you the opportunity to pay your lawyer only with the condition of him winning the case. It’s a relatively new type of procedure. So, according to the seriousness and the risk factor of your case, your lawyer will have a basic fee and a success fee. The success fee is a pre-determined percentage out of the basic fee. The even better piece of news is that these fees may be paid if not entirely, at least partially, by your opponent. A word of caution though. There were cases in which people took the “no win no fee” term for granted and found themselves having to pay serious sums of money. Why? Because they didn’t know that in the undesirable event that they lose the case, they have to pay the opponent’s costs. So, keep this in mind before going on with the procedures. Now, the choice of getting compensated solely with the help of your insurance company or with the help of a lawyer depends on a simple factor: the seriousness of the case. If you have sustained minor injuries, there’s no point in hiring a lawyer and you should go for your insurance company’s compensation. I mean, this is what a personal accident insurance is good for, right?
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