subject: Five Types Of Legal Services Offered To Claimants [print this page] There are various types of legal services that a claimant can opt for when he has been injured in an accident. These services can be categorized into two broad categories that are personal injury services and criminal injury services. The following paragraphs will elaborate on a few types of legal services that are offered to claimants in UK.
Personal injury services can be further categorized into 4 categories. The first category is road accident services, the second category is work accident services, the third category is medical negligence services and the fourth category is trip or fall services.
Road accident services consist of automobile accidents, road traffic accidents and motorbike accidents. Claimants can hire a legal professional to help them out with road accident claims if they have been injured due to no fault of their own and as a result of the accident they have suffered a personal injury. Claimants can hire a personal injury solicitor to help them with work injury claims if the accident has occurred due to no fault of their own. In certain cases claimants are allowed to file work accident claims if they are partly at fault but this will depend largely on the situation in which the accident occurred.
Medical negligence legal services allow claimants to file for compensation when the claimant has suffered a personal injury due to a medical professionals negligence. Trip or fall services offer legal help to claimants when they want to file for compensation for accidents at a public place. An instance of a trip or slip claim is a claimant falling down at a museum due to the negligence of the authorities. To be eligible for compensation the claimant should suffer a personal injury and the accident should have occurred due to the authoritys negligence.
In addition to these personal accident legal services claimants can also hire a personal injury lawyer to help them claim for compensation if their child was injured at school. To be eligible for compensation the child should have been hurt on the school property, in the school bus or on a school trip due to the negligence of the school authorities.
Criminal injury legal services are available to claimants who want to file for compensation if they have been victims of violent or hateful crimes. Such crimes include assault, mugging and theft. If the claimant has been attacked by a pet dog on someone elses property then the case can be registered as a criminal assault case. To be eligible for compensation the claimant should have suffered an injury that occurred due to the violent crime.
Both independent lawyers and accident claim companies offer these legal services. Usually accident claim companies offer a larger variety of services compared to independent solicitors since these companies have many solicitors working for them who have expertise in various fields.
