Personal Injury News and Articles

We've written the articles here to give you a better understanding of how personal injury claims work. It's our intention to add new information regularly, so it's well worth bookmarking this page and checking back.

The Essential Ingredients of Any Personal Injury Case

The thing you and we need to decide is whether your case is good or bad, and whether to pursue it against the Defendant. I therefore want to simplify this down to a level where if you follow these basic questions and rules then you will see more clearly how we assess a case and how we decide whether to pursue it. It will also help you to help us as we work on your case because you will understand better what we are doing and why we are trying to prove certain things......read more

Advance Legal raises a Client's Damages by 600%!

One of our personal injury lawyers has just demonstrated why it is that clients need a Solicitor to act for them and cannot safely negotiate their own accident claim with the insurer. Our client was injured whilst a passenger on a train. The train hit the buffer stop which caused our client to be thrown forward, resulting in him hitting his head and knee. .....read more

Goodwill Gesture or Proper Compensation?

We tend to find that Defendants and insurers are not very keen to pay out compensation to our clients. They will get up to all sorts of tricks and underhand tactics to try to avoid paying, or to delay it, or to try to pay less than the proper amount......read more

Horse Trips on Pothole in Road

We settled a case shortly before trial where a horse fell when its hoof went into a pothole in the road. The horse's rider, a woman of 47, was injured when she fell to the ground as a result of the horse falling. A claim was brought against the County Council for failing to maintain the highway and they defended, saying that they had inspected the road only three months earlier and had found no defects......read more

The Compensation Culture is a Myth

Research done at the Warwick University School of Law shows that the so-called compensation culture is a myth. For some years, insurance companies PR departments have been diligent in putting out press releases, some real and some exaggerated, to suggest that far more personal injury claims are being brought and for all sorts of weird and wacky things......read more