Need Guidance on changing your Personal Injury Solicitor?

Summary

Our well recognised and experienced Personal Injury Team understand that if you have been involved in an accident it can be traumatic and emotional suddenly finding yourself injured. Now, from nowhere, you may have to think about giving instructions to a legal team about both the circumstances of the incident as well as manage your injury. We understand that this can be exhausting. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the relationship between you and the legal team that originally started your claim for you can become difficult leaving you feeling unsupported. We answer some frequently asked questions on what to do if you have been in an injury causing incident, and, if you have a legal team, what to do if things are not progressing the way you would like. 1\. I’ve been involved in an incident causing me injury, how do I know whether I have a claim? The law sets out that you must be owed a duty of care by someone, that that must have been breached (broken) and caused your injury and any financial loss you want to claim. All three of these tests must be established for you to have a claim. Sometimes, the breach of duty is easy to prove very quickly, for instance being involved in a road.

Key information

• Our well recognised and experienced Personal Injury Team understand that if you have been involved in an accident it can be traumatic and emotional suddenly finding yourself injured.
• Now, from nowhere, you may have to think about giving instructions to a legal team about both the circumstances of the incident as well as manage your injury.
• We understand that this can be exhausting. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the relationship between you and the legal team that originally started your claim for you can become difficult leaving you feeling unsupported.
• We answer some frequently asked questions on what to do if you have been in an injury causing incident, and, if you have a legal team, what to do if things are not progressing the way you would like.
• 1\. I’ve been involved in an incident causing me injury, how do I know whether I have a claim?
• The law sets out that you must be owed a duty of care by someone, that that must have been breached (broken) and caused your injury and any financial loss you want to claim. All three of these tests must be established for you to have a claim.
• Sometimes, the breach of duty is easy to prove very quickly, for instance being involved in a road traffic collision as a passenger in a car. That is because you will have had no control of the car and your driver or the driver of another vehicle who caused the incident will have owed you a duty to drive in a reasonable way. It they did not, and the incident occurred, you can prove the first two tests.
• You must still prove your injuries and financial loss are linked to the incident to have a claim.
• Our team act for people who have suffered severe personal injury and associated financial loss as a result of an accident.
• Talk to your current legal team and explain why you are not happy. It might be you are not content with what is being said or done. A better explanation and some time to take you through what is going on hopefully will answer your concerns.
• 4\. What can I do if even after seeking reassurance, the relationship with my legal team remains difficult?
• This can happen. If you feel this way, one of our experienced members of the team can talk to you about how things are progressing and, in most instances, reassure you that it sounds like things are on track. We can not give you specific legal advice at this stage.

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