{"id":47319,"date":"2021-08-01T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/?p=47319"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:07:47","slug":"myths-and-misconceptions-about-personal-injury-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/myths-and-misconceptions-about-personal-injury-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths and Misconceptions About Personal Injury Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty much every day, someone in the UK is injured in an accident that wasn\u2019t their fault. In some cases, the consequences of these accidents can be severe enough that a legal remedy is necessary. This remedy is often a sum of money, which will cover the losses you\u2019ve incurred (perhaps as a result of being unable to work), as well as the pain and suffering you\u2019ve endured (which can be mental as well as physical).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Personal injury law has gotten a bit of a bad rap in recent years. This is in part because of its ubiquity in daytime television advertising. Obviously, those who\u2019ve been laid off for injury are more likely to be watching television<\/a> in the day. But there\u2019s a longstanding stigma around personal injury claims<\/a>, that predates those TV adverts, and that\u2019s based on myth and outright misinformation.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s examine a few of those myths, and see which of them, if any, stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Claimants need to go to court<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re considering making the claim, then the prospect of being summoned to court to have your ordeal scrutinised might be enough to put you off. Fortunately, in practice, only a tiny minority of cases ever reach this stage typically if the value of your claim is over \u00a325000 then you may be expected to attend court this is also known as a multitrack case. But more commonly neither party is incentivised to incur court costs; most will settle out of court. It\u2019s reported that less than 1% of claims end in a full-court hearing.<\/p>\n

Failure will be expensive<\/h2>\n

Most solicitors specialising in this area of law will proceed on a conditional fee agreement (better known as a no-win, no-fee arrangement). At the outset, your personal injury solicitor will examine the merits of your claim<\/a>, and determine whether success is likely. If it is, then they\u2019ll agree to bear the cost if the claim should be unsuccessful. Overall, this means you will only pay legal fees if the claim is successful which will be a small percentage of the compensation you have received, this will have been agreed at the beginning of the claims process.<\/p>\n

Damages are taxable<\/h2>\n

Any compensation you\u2019re awarded will be tax-exempt. You\u2019ll keep 100% of it.<\/p>\n

The claims process is too complex<\/p>\n

Often people are put of making a claim because of the belief that the process is far too complicated and stressful. The claims process is straightforward and follows steps set in the pre action protocol<\/a> for personal injury claims. Your lawyer will make sure you understand fully the process in every stage of your claim so that you feel at ease and understand what is happening with your personal injury claims case.<\/p>\n

People who make claims are scrounging<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019ve been legitimately injured in an accident that wasn\u2019t your fault, then you shouldn\u2019t be expected to put up with it. This is an attitude that only benefits organisations which behave in a neglectful or malicious way.<\/p>\n

Personal injury claims take a long time<\/h2>\n

Your solicitor should be able to explain to you the expected length of the case. In simple cases, it can be over in a matter of months. What\u2019s important is that not much of your personal time will be taken up \u2013 it\u2019s generally something that you can forget about until you\u2019re called upon to take action.<\/p>\n

If you claim against your employer, you could be sacked<\/h2>\n

If your employer sacks you or discriminates against you in any way because of your case, then they\u2019re breaking the law, and could end up in big, big trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty much every day, someone in the UK is injured in an accident that wasn\u2019t their fault. In some cases, the consequences of these accidents can be severe enough that a legal remedy is necessary. This remedy is often a sum of money, which will cover the losses you\u2019ve incurred (perhaps as a result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[23060],"tags":[23061,23062],"class_list":["post-47319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consulting","tag-personal-injury","tag-personal-injury-claims"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbrandsmagazine.com\/gbmstaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}