Should I claim?

, there were 170,591 road accidents reported to the police involving personal injury. Of these 25,462 accidents involved serious injury or death¹.

16,297 pedal cyclist and 21,550 motorcycle accidents were reported to the police in 2008 .

According to NHS statistics dog attacks in England have risen by over 40% in the last four years to 3,800 a year.

299,000 reportable injuries at work occurred according to the Labour Force Survey during 2007/8. Six million working days were lost due to workplace injury.

Compensation culture – a media myth

There has been much talk of a growing "compensation culture" in the papers and on the radio and TV but there is little evidence to show that this is actually the case.

We firmly believe that it is wrong and indeed immoral to bring a claim against an individual or organisation that is not genuine. Our review and screening procedures ensure that once the facts are properly known only those cases that are genuine are brought forward as claims.

Bringing a claim will help you to recover and ease your financial burdens

Bringing a claim will ensure accountability of the person or organisation responsible for your injury. This will help prevent the same mistake from happening again. It will also secure the payment of compensation. This is important especially in more complex cases and where long term specialist care and assistance is required. This can be expensive and establishing a claim means that individuals and their families will not have to struggle financially to cope with the resulting injury.

Following a detailed investigation a decision can be taken about whether or not a claim can be made and its likelihood of success.

1. Department of Transport
   
2. Department of Transport