A Guide To No Win No Fee Free Compensation Claims

Have you ever wondered how people claimed for personal injuries and received compensation but not spent a penny

. The following information might go some way as to help you understand more.

The term no win no fee came to be known in the late 1990s when legal aid for personal injury cases was largely removed. No win no fee is the arrangement in personal injury cases, which allows a law firm to take on a case based on the Conditional Fee Agreement-CFA.

This is an agreement between the client their law firm, where by the client is not responsible for the lawyers costs if the case is lost. If the case is won the lawyer is entitled to recoup their costs plus and additional cost often referred to as a success fee, this is no more than one hundred percent the original fee, but this fee is claimed from the losing party in addition the clients claim.

This is currently under dispute due to unscrupulous lawyers taking a large number of spurious cases to court. It is felt that the lawyers success fees should be taken out of the clients awarded compensation.

The general feeling of the day is that too many people are claiming for the smallest incidents and the personal injury claim has turned in to a bit of a free for all. But if you have had an accident and it was not your fault then you are entitled to make a claim and there are specialists out there to help guide you though the mind field of personal injury claim.

The amount of compensation awarded will depend on the type of injury received. A broken bone for example will receive more than just a bad bruise. The compensation can also cover the effect the injury may have had on the injured parties life. For example if the claimant has had to take time off work to recover, then loss of earnings can also be claimed for. The first thing anyone who is injured should do following an accident is to visit a doctor, with any claim a doctor will have to submit a report listing the injuries and suggested treatment.

There is a time limit of three years when starting a claim for compensation in England and Wales, from the date of the accident to the start of court proceedings. If the accident caused an injury which was not apparent straight away, then the three year time limit starts from the day the client is aware of the injury and therefore that they may have a claim. This rule also does not apply is if the client is under eighteen years at the time of the accident. In this case the client has until the day before their twenty first birthdays to start proceedings.

There are many different types of injury that fall under the personal injury claim - the main types of claims come from accidents at work, car accidents-whiplash, slips trips and falls etc. Personal injury also covers medical and dental accidents. If you have had an accident and it was not your fault then you are most likely to have a claim.

The only way to really find out if you have a claim is to get some free advice from a personal injury claim specialist.

by: Ben Whitlow

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