Filing Serious Injury Compensation Claim for Work Accidents: How to Proceed?

Ever faced a workplace accident? Ever faced the agony of missing working days, received deducted pay slips for missed working days, suffered of physical and mental injury? If you have gone through similar phases before, you already know that facing a workplace accident has more adverse consequences that one can even imagine of. A workplace accident does not only cause physical pain, the associated losses and damages are also colossal. If you have faced a workplace accident in recent past and suffering since the mishap, if your injuries are severe in nature, you can easily file a serious injury compensation claim.

Why should you claim for compensation from your employer?

Many people fear that filing a claim against their employer might play havoc with the rest of their working life, they might lose their jobs, their employer is strong enough to defend those claims and pay them back later in adverse manner etc. but the truth is, every employer in the UK and across the UK is legally obliged to provide adequate measures for ensuring safety and security of their workers. No employer can escape their duties and if that happens resulting in worker injury, the victims have always the right to go to court to file compensation claims.

How will you claim for a serious injury received during work?

For doing that, you need to report the case in written to your employer. Chances are there that your employer will try to persuade you for out-of-court settlements. But keep in mind that these out-of-court settlements are often not proportionate to the real losses and damages and are insisted rather than offered. You should report the case to the local police station and ask your coworkers to take your side when they are summoned to the court. If your claim is real, they will not refuse your proposal. Index the accident in your company’s accident log book and proceed further towards winning a serious injury compensation claim.

Where to go for seeking legal assistance?

Raw statistics say that there are over thousands of legal firms across the UK dealing with compensation claims cases. Almost all of these companies have their official websites where you can get their contact details. If you have already found a website, check if the agency is SRA certified and regulated. Then check the testimonial section of the website and read client reviews. Contact each of their previous clients separately and ask them to share their experience with the agency, whether their case was given importance or not, whether they won the case etc. the undertone is you need to check whether they are real persons or the company reps act as if they are the real clients of the agencies.