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An extensive article, giving plenty of examples of how liability is determined in a personal injury claim
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.
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.
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.
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.