The term “No Win No Fee” has become synonymous with personal injury and accident claim organisations over the past few years. But what does the terms actually mean, and how does it work?
What is a Conditional Fee Agreement
A Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) is the agreement between a law firm and its client. It enables a solicitor to take on a personal injury case, with the understanding that should they lose the case, the client will not pay for their services. This has become known as No Win No Fee.
What happens …

Is it just co-incidence that the number of No Win No Fee personal injury claims have soared during the recession?
The most common reasons for making a claim for compensation are road traffic accidents, back strains (back injuries from lifting) or slips trips and falls. As the economic downturn has deepened the number of accident claims has risen dramatically. Experts have suggested that this trend has necessitated councils and companies to reduce their expenditure forcing them to neglect important health and safety issues.
The introduction of conditional fee agreements (CFAs) in 1998 …

Work Accident Compensation Claim
A courier company in the South of England has been fined after an employee broke a leg at its distribution centre.
The company was fined a total of £35,000, after the worker suffered the injury as he neared the end of his shift in early 2008. The employee, a porter at the courier company, was unloading a Heavy Goods Vehicle, ready to sort the parcels in order for them to be prepared for local delivery in the company’s smaller vehicles.
However, on this occasion, while he was still in …

Three British oil firms have been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds, after a worker was paralysed following an accident while on duty.
The companies, fined a combined total of £283,332, were criticised in court for contradicting Regulation 8(1)(c) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 and failing to ensure that all lifting operations were carried out in a safe environment.
The accident happened when the employee in question was removing part of a container that turns crude oil into numerous chemical components, when he was struck …

According to statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), exposure to asbestos causes more than 4,000 deaths in Great Britain die each year. The main cause of death is from mesothelioma and lung cancer caused as a direct result of exposure to asbestos. The HSE predicts the number of people dying as a result of asbestos exposure will continue to rise over the next ten years.
There are four main diseases caused by asbestos:
• mesothelioma (which is always fatal)
• lung cancer (almost always fatal)
• asbestosis (not always fatal, but it …