NO WIN NO FEE PERSONAL INJURY SOLICITOR

Our lawyers represent the injured victims of negligent drivers in car accident claims throughout the United Kingdom. If the other driver has been identified then compensation is paid in full with no deductions. Our no win no fee personal injury solicitor experts do not require you to fund or finance your claim which will be genuinely risk fre. We give an absolute written guarantee that you will never have to pay one penny to us, now or in the future and that nothing will be deducted from your compensation.

A contingent fee scheme has operated in the United States for many years however there are substantial differences between that scheme and the effects of a UK ‘conditional fee agreement’ or CFA. In the United States when an award is made or a compromise settlement is agreed there is just one sum awarded from which legal fees must be deducted often reducing the amount actually paid to the client by as much as 40%.

In 1998 the British Government introduced the UK conditional fee scheme at the same time as removing publicly funded legal aid for most personal injury claims with the main exception of medical negligence cases. A CFA operates by allowing a no win no fee personal injury solicitor to deal with a case on the basis that the client is only charged if compensation is awarded and most car accident claims, with the exception of hit and run cases being dealt with through the Motor Insurers Bureau where the other driver has not been identified, legal costs are also awarded to cover the lawyers time and expenses. This means that the amount of compensation awarded can be paid over in full without the client suffering any deductions.

Within the CFA rules there is scope for a no win no fee personal inury solicitor to make justified deductions from the client’s compensation for payment but very few lawyers now do this with most preferring to pay compensation in full. In addition some claims companies also make charges to their clients which are deducted from the compensation awarded. The now defunct claims companies ‘Claims Direct’ and ‘The Accident Group’ both came in for severe criticism for making unjustifiable deductions from compensation.

Many people are in fact insured against the possibility of them having to take legal proceedings for compensation and that insurance policy which is often tagged on to another policy is known as ‘before the event’ insurance and indemnifies the client against paying both his own legal costs and the costs of the other side in the event that a claim is lost. Anyone who is contemplating taking legal action for damages for personal injury should carefully check their home and contents insurance and motor insurance policy to see if they have BTE insurance which would then take the place of a CFA.