How to Lodge a Personal Injury Claim

Lodging a personal injury claim can be complicated and inconvenient when you’re already injured, but it’s important for you to file your claim and get justice where it’s due.

Here’s what you need to know to lodge a personal injury claim.

Criteria for filing a personal injury claim

The most salient points for you to be able to file a personal injuries claim are that you need to have gotten injured through no fault of your own and, secondly, the cause for your injury should be a result of someone else’s negligence or poor judgment.

Breach of duty of care

This means that either a specific action or a specific lack of action on a concerned party’s part led to your injury. Examples of such cases include poorly constructed pavements, a wet floor with no wet floor sign, and poor security measures.

Establishing negligence is key for the defendant to win his or her case.

Negligence

When it comes to negligence, basically, this is to establish how badly the person you’re suing has messed up on their safety protocols. This can be determined by evaluating the extent of the injuries you’ve sustained, how likely it was that the event would happen to someone, what precautions were being taken, and even an evaluation of how the accused conducts standard operating protocols relative to the rest of their industry.

Report

It’s important that you claim the injuries within 3 years of sustaining them. Then you file the claim. Because personal injury claims can get complicated, your chances of winning are greater if you let an experienced, high-quality solicitor handle and work on your case with you.

Gather evidence

The most helpful thing you can do to support your case aside from getting a solicitor is to gather evidence. This can be pictures of the site, pictures of your injuries before they heal, any and all medical documents regarding the injuries sustained, noting the incident in an accident book.

If your case is built on prescription costs and other expenses, then make sure that you keep ample records of all your associated receipts.

Get an experienced solicitor in the UK to file and fight for your personal injury claim today.

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