Have You Or A Loved One Suffered A Personal Injury That Was Not Your Fault? You May Be Entitled To Make A Personal Injury Claim.
Free Legal Justice has a full team of personal injury solicitors in Inverness that are available to give you free legal advice about your potential accident claim. Our personal injury team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to guide you through every step of your personal injury claim.
How Do I Make personal injury Compensation Claims in inverness?
If you think you or a loved one have a valid personal injury accident claim, the first thing you should do is speak to one of our accidents claims solicitors as soon as possible to take the next step towards the justice that you deserve. Free Legal Justice will happily provide you with free legal advice and advise you on how best to make your personal injury claim. Our panel of personal injury solicitors in Inverness have the right knowledge and skills to efficiently manage your case, and have a proven track record of successful cases and overall client satisfaction.
What Information Do I Need To Make A Personal Injury Claim?
To correctly advise you on the merits and possible value of your compensation claim, our personal injury solicitors in Inverness will need as much detail as possible about the accident.
Please have as much information as possible ready for your free consultation with one of Free Legal Justice’s personal injury solicitors, including details such as:
- How the incident happened, and nature of the injuries you have suffered or other damages suffered because of the incident;
- Location of the incident, whether it be in a public space, at work, in a personal injury;
- If a personal injury, the car and license registration details of all those involved ;
- If a work or public place accident, the accident report book that your accident would have been recorded in;
- The full names and contact numbers of all individuals involved in the incident;
- Details of any police dockets or emergency services reports; and
- Details of the insurance providers for the other parties involved in the incident.
It is also important that you keep a full record of all relevant information, reports, and receipts for expenses incurred from the date of your accident, as this information could be used in support of your compensation claim. The more information you can provide, the more accurately and quickly our personal injury solicitors in Inverness can assess and value your personal injury claim.
Our Personal Injury Solicitors In Inverness Will Help
Don’t worry if you don’t have all of this information right away. Our personal injury solicitors in Inverness will be able to explain the merits of your accident claim based on the information that you can provide, and we will do what we can to help you obtain any other information that you need in order to make a successful compensation claim. The important thing is that you get in touch with Free Legal Justice as soon as possible- the sooner we have the details of your case, the sooner one of our fantastic personal injury solicitors in Inverness can get started on your case and help you get the maximum compensation that you deserve, in the shortest possible time.
How Long Does a Personal Injury Claim Take in inverness?
Every accident involving personal injury is unique, as is the compensation claim process that follows the incident. A personal injury claim can be settled in a matter of months, while others are more complicated and will take longer to resolve. The length of time to resolve a matter will depend on the facts specific to your case. Our expert personal injury solicitors in Inverness have handled many personal injury cases before, and will be able to give you good idea of how long your claim is likely to take once Free Legal Justice has fully assessed the merits and facts of your case.
In general, the length of time it takes to resolve your case will depend on how complicated the facts and the disputable issues are, as well as the conduct of the party on the other side. Personal injury claims can become more complicated if your injuries are extremely serious, if there is a dispute over the facts, or if you were involved in a ‘hit and run’ accident, as this may make it more difficult to prove legal responsibility. Your personal injury solicitor in Inverness will first work at resolving and settling your case outside of court, but sometimes this will not be possible and the matter may run to trial.
Our Solicitors In Inverness Offer Free Legal Claims Advice
No matter how your accident happened or who you think is to blame for the accident, it is important that you speak to a legal professional from Free Legal Justice as soon as possible to determine whether you have a valid personal injury claim. Our experienced accident claim team members handle every personal injury claim through a fast-track assessment and allocation process; so that we can help our clients get the compensation they deserve as soon as possible.
Our personal injury solicitors in Inverness will give you an estimate of how long they expect your claim to take once they have been through the details of your case with you. The sooner we get started on your personal injury claim, the sooner you will get the justice that you deserve. Contact Free Legal Justice for a free, no-obligation consultation with one of our personal injury solicitors in Inverness today.
Are There Time Periods For Making My Personal Injury Claim?
Generally, you need to institute a personal injury claim within three years of the date of the personal injury, or within three years of the date that you discovered your injuries- whichever date is later. There are some exceptions to this rule, for example you may be allowed a longer time period if you are claiming on behalf of a child or protected person. On the other hand, if the personal injury was the result of criminal activity such as a hit and run, time limits may vary if the claim is instituted through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. There is also a possibility that you could claim on behalf of a deceased person, but the law around this can become complicated, so it is advisable that you speak to a legal professional before you take these steps. If you have any questions about the time period for making your personal injury claim, our dedicated personal injury claims team in Inverness is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for a free and confidential discussion.
why choose our personal injury claims solicitors in inverness?
Our dedicated panel of personal injury solicitors in Inverness have been dealing with personal injury claims for a very long time. At Free Legal Justice, we understand that a personal injury, whether minor or serious, can affect people in different ways. Our personal injury solicitor in Inverness take each case seriously and deal with each client on an individual basis, giving 100 percent of their efforts to ensure that clients receive the rightful compensation they deserve. At Free Legal Justice, we are extremely confident in our legal expertise and claim success rate, and for this reason we are happy to offer a No Win No Fee agreement for all clients with a lawful personal injury claim.
Our Personal Injury Solicitors In Inverness Will Protect Your Privacy
Our personal injury solicitors in Inverness will protect your privacy and safety, and ensure that your compensation claim is handled diligently, efficiently and discreetly. Free Legal Justice aims to make the whole compensation claim process as easy, effortless and stress-free as possible for you. You can rest easy knowing that you have an expert personal injury solicitor in Inverness working hard on your claim, to get you the maximum compensation you deserve.
To get in touch with a personal injury solicitor in Inverness today, simply fill out the short online query form and wait for us to call you back, or call Free Legal Justice on 0121 565 4317 to speak to one of our friendly team members about your compensation claim. Our claims team is open 24 hours day, 7 days a week and will give you free legal advice on your potential personal injury claim. No matter what type of accident you were involved in or how the injuries were caused, we want to help you get the compensation that you deserve.
How Much Compensation Can I Get For My Personal injury Claim that happpened in inverness?
There are numerous personal injuries that can be included in a compensation claims. That being said, some of the common injuries that our personal injury solicitors in Inverness deal with on a daily basis include whiplash, sprains, strains, head and brain injuries, loss of limbs, broken bones/ fractures, and loss of life.
As a victim of an accident where your injuries were caused by another person, you can potentially claim the costs of any medical bills, loss of income due to your injuries, as well as the cost of repairs for the damage caused to your possessions. There are many elements that can form part of your compensation claim, and the amount that you can claim will vary based on the seriousness of the injuries and the overall impact that the injury has had on your life. No matter how minor or how serious your injuries, our accident claim solicitors are specialists in claiming for everything from fairly minor to serious injuries.
To give you a better idea of what can be included in your compensation claim, there are two types of damages that personal injury claims involve, namely general and special damages.
General Damages In A Compensation Claim
Your expert personal injury solicitor in Inverness will work with you to clearly set out the value of general damages included in your claim. General damages comprise of compensation for the personal injuries that you have suffered as a result of the personal injury, and this includes compensation for pain and suffering experienced due to your injuries. One of our personal injury solicitors in Inverness will take you through the calculation of compensation for general damages by looking at the medical report of your injuries which was drawn up by an independent medical officer, together with the amounts set out in the official Judicial Board Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases. This prescribed general damages guideline sets out how much can be claimed as general damages for different types of injuries.
The amount of general damages that you are entitled to will depend on various aspects, such as how serious your injury was, whether there were any complicating factors surrounding the injury, as well as the length of the recovery period, alternatively the level of permanence of the injury. Our accident claim solicitors will need full and accurate descriptions and diagnoses of the injuries you have suffered before they help you to calculate your general damages claim. This is why it is so important that you see a medical professional as soon as you have been injured in a personal injury.
Special Damages In A Compensation Claim
Special damages forming part of your personal injury claim will include compensation for any additional expenses that you’ve incurred as a result of the personal injury. This is a broad category of damages, and can range from loss of past and future income, to costs of counselling and therapy sessions, to traveling expenses, additional childcare expenses, as well as nursing and household adaptations that you have made to help you live with your injuries. Whatever additional costs you have incurred that are connected in some way to the personal injury that was not your fault, our personal injury solicitors in Inverness will explain to you which of these amounts will form part of your claim.
It is important to know that special damages can only be claimed if you can show proof of the expenses that you have already incurred or will incur in future, for example by presenting receipts, reports, payslips and other documentation relevant to the damages. Our accident claims team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to answer any questions you have about the calculation of your general and special damages.
Do You Have Questions For Our Personal Injury Compensation Claims Solicitors In Inverness?
If you have any questions about the claim process, or the calculation of your general and special damages claims, please get in touch with us by filling out the online form or by calling us on 0800 567 7074. Our personal injury team in Inverness is available to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and are happy to answer any questions you might have about your potential accident claim, without any cost or obligation on your part. If you prefer, one of our friendly personal injury solicitors Inverness will be able to do a home visit, so that you can discuss your case freely from the comfort of your own home.
What Will It Cost To Make A Personal injury Claim?
Our personal injury solicitors in Inverness conduct all of our client’s personal injury claims on a No Win No Fee basis. This means that you will not pay us a thing unless your compensation claim is successful. Free Legal Justice will carry all the upfront costs, meaning that you will only be charged a success fee if we help you to win your compensation case. For victims of personal injuries, No Win No Fee agreements are a great funding option for our clients to pursue compensation claims, without the risk of being out of pocket.
No Win No Fee Agreements For Accident Claims In Inverness
A No Win No Fee agreement lets you continue with a compensation claim on the condition that if the claim is unsuccessful, you won’t owe us any money. Put simply, it is a way for you to take legal steps necessary to claim compensation for your injuries, without any financial risk weighing over your head. Our highly skilled personal injury solicitors in Inverness are happy to offer No Win No Fee agreements to clients seeking rightful compensation for personal injuries, because they are extremely confident in their legal abilities and have a track record of successful claims behind them.
A No Win No Fee agreement is a stress-free, financially-savvy way to claim compensation for personal injuries. Once you have discussed the details of your case with a personal injury solicitor in Inverness, and given them the go-ahead to continue with your compensation claim on a No Win No Fee basis, your work is basically done. You can then sit back, relax, and let your dedicated accident claim solicitor do all the hard work for you!
How Much Will I Be Charged If My injury Claim Is Successful?
The good news is that you will never pay us any legal fees in advance. A No Win No Fee agreement means that we only get paid if your claim is successful.
Our personal injury solicitors in Inverness work on an average success fee of 25% of the total compensation received. Your designated personal injury solicitor in Inverness will discuss the success fee upfront before you make your claim, and this will be agreed in writing between the parties. If Free Legal Justice helps you to win your claim, we will receive the success fee as payment for the legal services that we have provided. Once you have agreed to make a claim, your dedicated personal injury solicitor in Inverness will be able to answer any questions that you might have on the success fee.
What Happens If My injury Claim Is Unsuccessful?
Free Legal Justice carries the risk of your claim being unsuccessful. If your compensation claim is not successful, Free Legal Justice will not charge you any legal fees for the work done by your designated personal injury solicitor in Inverness. That means that you will not need to pay us a thing if your claim is unsuccessful.
To ensure that you are fully protected and have peace of mind over your financial risks, our team can help you to secure ‘After the Event’ insurance. This insurance covers you in the event that you are unsuccessful with your claim, and in case the court rules that you need to pay a part of your opponent’s legal costs during the case.
Car Accident Personal Injury Claims
Car accidents are one of the main causes of personal injury in Inverness, and in the United Kingdom as a whole. According to the statistics released by the Department of Transport, there were 157 630 reported personal injury car accidents in the United Kingdom for the year ending June 2019.
In simple terms, a car accident is any type of incident that involves a car. Car accidents can happen for a variety of reasons and can lead to a variety of accident claims. A car accident could involve a situation where two cars collide with one another, or where a car collides with a motorbike or bicycle, and also include incidents where a pedestrian is injured by a car.
Car Accident Claims Inverness
If you or a loved one has been injured in a car accident that was not your fault, you may have a valid car accident claim, and be entitled to financial compensation. Our team of dedicated and knowledgeable car accident claims experts are here to help you institute a compensation claim if you have suffered any injuries and financial loss as a result of another person’s actions. At Free Legal Justice, we know that being injured in any type of car accident is scary, and our personal injury solicitors in Inverness are here to lend a helping hand to guide you through the car accident claim process. Free Legal Justice will take over all the hard work from you during the claims process, leaving you with less paperwork and minimal stress.
Passenger Accident Claims In Inverness
It isn’t just drivers who can claim for injuries sustained on the road – car accidents can cause injuries to all sorts of people, including passengers, drivers, and innocent bystanders. All of these people may have been affected by the car accident in some way, and may have a potential compensation claim. Our car accident claims team in Inverness is available at all times to discuss your potential car accident claim, and advise you on the merits of your compensation claim, without any obligation or charge.
Accident At Work Personal Injury Claims
An accident at work is essentially an unplanned (but often anticipatable) incident that transpires at a workplace because of specific circumstances at the site or premises, because of the way in which a job is being done, or because of how certain equipment is being used. As a result of these circumstances, an accident happens and someone (usually an employee) is injured. The employee is then entitled to claim compensation from the person legally responsible for their injuries, and an accident at work claims process ensues.
Accident At Work Claims Inverness
You have a right to feel safe at your place of work. While you go about your daily job, the last thing you would expect is to be involved in an accident at work caused by your employer’s negligence. Whether you work in the construction industry, in an office, or in a supermarket, your employer has a legal duty make sure your place of work is safe and secure. This includes conducting continuous risk assessments and providing sufficient health and safety training to staff members.
Some jobs carry more risk of an accident at work, purely because of the nature of the daily tasks that employees are involved in. For this reason there are specific laws and procedures in place designed to help keep employees safe while they are at their place of work.
Amongst other things, this means that your employer has to ensure the safety of:
- the physical space at your place of work, including maintaining fire exits and escape routes;
- the system and processes at your place of work;
- the plant and equipment at your place of work, including testing any electrical equipment that employees might use at the place of work;
- the working practices, including first aid and emergency plans; and
- the protective equipment at your place of work. This includes ensuring that sufficient and reasonable amounts of protective equipment, first aid supplies, and protective uniforms are available to employees.
Health and Safety At Work
Unfortunately, not all employers take safety seriously and many fail to take the necessary measures to protect their employees from accidents at work. This can result in employees suffering from all kinds of injuries at work. Injuries caused by accidents at work can have far-reaching effects, influencing an employee’s ability to work properly, and in severe cases resulting in permanent injury or even fatalities.
Your Inverness Employer Is Responsible For Your Work Accident
Your employer is ultimately responsible for any harm that you may suffer at your place of work as a result of someone else’s negligence, whether the accident was caused by someone’s positive act or their failure to act. Whether your accident was caused by a mistake of another employee or joke played by one of your co-workers, at the end of the day it is your employer that is responsible for your safety at work. You don’t have to worry about a fellow employee having to pay out of their own pocket for an accident at work claim that you make, even if they actually caused the incident. This is because of a principle called vicarious liability, which makes sure that all employers are liable for the actions of their employees.
Our Work Accident Claims Solicitors In Inverness Can Help
If you are worried about the potential financial implications that your accident at work claim may have on your employer, or about the status of your employment relationship once you have made a claim, you need not worry any longer. Your employer has employer’s liability insurance to cover any accident at work claims made against them. Every employer is legally required to take out this employers’ liability insurance, to ensure that they are able to pay compensation for any accidents at work without it affecting the business financially.
Many of the reported accidents at work claims that Free Legal Justice deals with involve some sort of manual handling incident. The majority of these cases are a direct result of employers failing to pay the necessary attention to manual handling safety rules and processes. In many cases, lifting and carrying injuries sustained by employees could easily have been prevented.
Public Place Personal Injury Claims In inverness
Free Legal Justice is highly experienced in handling personal injury claims which have happened in a wide range of public places, including theme parks, shopping malls, restaurants and bars, parks, schools, theatres, carnivals and music concerts.
If you have suffered a personal injury when you were in a public place and you believe it was due to negligence of another individual or body, you may be able to claim compensation for your injuries. Councils, shop owners, businesses and public bodies all have a duty to the public, to take reasonable measures to prevent people from being injured on the premises under their control.
Council Injury Claims In Inverness
If your injury happened on a council owned property, such as a public walkway or a library, then you may be able to make a personal injury compensation claim against the local authority, as long as the accident was due to their negligence. When injuries happen in public spaces, the accident often involves a slip or a trip on an unmaintained road or a pavement, which means that the local council will be responsible for your compensation claim.
When instituting a claim against a council for failing to maintain a road or sidewalk, our persona injury solicitors in Inverness will need to prove that the local council was negligent in their duty to the public by failing to keep the pavement safe. This involves proving that, based on the circumstances of the case, it was not reasonable for the local council to let the public space to fall into a state of disrepair that it could result in a person being injured.
Contact Our Personal Injury Solicitors In Inverness Today For Your No Win No Fee Claims
Contact Free Legal Justice at any time of day, on any day of the week, by filling out the short online form and waiting for us to call you back for free, or by calling one of our friendly compensation claims handlers on 0800 567 7074. If you would like to discuss your case from the comfort of your own home, please request a complimentary home visit from one of our friendly personal injury solicitors in Inverness, so that we can start your compensation claim without delay.
Our Personal Injury Solicitors In Inverness Cover These Areas:
Inverness Highland
Fort William Highland
Nairn Highland
Thurso Highland
Wick Highland
Alness Highland
Dingwall Highland
Invergordon Highland
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