Top Tips When Making Personal Injury Claims

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Top Tips When Making Personal Injury Claims

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 22, 2012

LONDON

,

June 22, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

With more accidents on the road, work related accidents and slips, trips and

falls being reported than ever before, the

Accident Advice Helpline

has

revealed the 6 top tips to help victims successfully make

Personal Injury

Claims

.

1. Write everything down

For victims of accidents, it is important to keep as much information as

possible. Claimants need to get the names and addresses of everyone who was

involved in the accident, including any witnesses. If the victim is incapacitated

to the point that they cannot do this for themselves, then someone else needs

to take control of the situation and get these details written down.

Keeping a note of all medical appointments attended, diagnoses, prescribed

medication and details of all symptoms will also help in pursuing

personal

injury claims

. It can be a good idea to start a diary or journal, noting down

events of importance or the development of new symptoms when they happen.

2. Take photos where possible

It is said that a picture tells a thousand words, and never has that been truer

than in the world of personal injury claims law. A few years ago, it would have

been very unusual to expect the prosecution to be able to produce photographs

of a vehicle collision, a poorly maintained pavement that caused a trip or other

pictorial evidence to support their case. However, with so many people owning

mobile phones with cameras on board these days, it is easier than ever for

people to snap a picture of the situation as it happens. Victims with

photographic evidence will find the defence has far less room for manoeuvre

and therefore their claim can be processed much more quickly and smoothly

than it would without the images.

3. Keep everything in a folder or file

If there is one thing that the Accident Advice Helpline has learned through its

years of involvement in the personal injury claims industry, it is that these

processes are easier if you stay organised. With this in mind, its' a good idea to

start a file or folder for your personal injury claim as early on as possible. Even

if the victim doesn't file things in any sort of order, just having all the necessary

paperwork in one place will inevitably take the stress out of making a claim.

4. Prove it

Often being injured in an accident has much further reaching consequences

than one might think. As well as the immediate implications of not being able to

work or to drive, for instance, there are also longer term implications relating

to the care of the victim, their home and their family. Many people who are

injured to the extent that it takes a few weeks, or even months, before they are

back on their feet find that they need to enlist the help of family, friends and

professionals to help them keep on top of everyday jobs, childcare or home

maintenance tasks.

However, it is not enough to simply state as part of personal injury claims that

the victim has done this or that; it is better if you can prove it. Claimants can

help with this process by keeping receipts, invoices, bank statements or

anything they think will help to calculate the total costs involved in their case.

Expenses relating to medicines, food and drinks bought whilst in hospital and

petrol used by relatives taking the claimant to medical appointments can all be

claimed for too, so the best course of action is to keep everything written down

and as many receipts as possible to get back everything you are entitled to.

5. Get Expert Advice

Accident Advice Helpline offer

free expert advice

so you can discuss your

case in detail with no obligation and find out about the process of claiming.

They can also ensure that you will end up with a

100%No Win Fee Solicitor

from their long established and vetted panel of specialists.

Quite often the best solicitors in the business are not the ones that shout the

loudest, so avoid the ones who approach victims in hospitals or have

overbearing television adverts. Claimants should take some time to check the

services available and to ask about solicitors experience with

personal injury

claims

cases to make sure they get the right person on board with their case.

6. Settle early where possible

When a solicitor has had a chance to contact the defendant and they have

admitted liability, they will usually be able to give an indication of roughly how

much they think the claim is worth. At this point, they will often ask the claimant

what level of compensation they would be willing to accept and in the majority

of cases an offer will be made to settle the case out of court for this amount.

This means the claimant will get paid faster and that a good deal of stress will

be taken out of the process, leaving the victim of the accident in peace to

concentrate on their recovery.

For claimants who have suffered injuries through accidents that were not their

fault, making personal injury claims with the right company should be a fairly

straightforward process. By following the advice offered here by the Accident

Advice Helpline, their experts say claims will be

processed faster

and

compensation amounts will generally be higher.

PR Contact

David Brown

Accident Advice House,

Merrion Avenue,

Stanmore,

Greater London

,

HA7

4RP

.

Phone: [phone]

Website: http://www.accidentadvicehelpline.co.uk