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 …

Three UK companies have been ordered to pay a total of £283,332 after a worker was paralysed in an accident.
The work accident compensation claim occurred when the claimant was working on a refurbishment project at the plant in a refinery in Cheshire. The worker was removing part of the concrete lining of the ‘cracker’ unit, where crude oil is turned into various chemical components. The court heard that the incident was caused by the materials being suspended above a walkway.

Employers across the North West of England are being urged to ensure their workers are kept safe in 2010, and improve on 2009 safety figures.
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), last year more than 300 work-related incidents occurred across the North West each week – amounting to a total of 16,385 people killed or injured during 2009.

A former RAF employee is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after an accident at a work social event left him paralysed from the waist down.
Robert Uren, from Camborne, was trying to collect plastic fruit from an inflatable pool when he slipped while diving at RAF High Wycombe.
Mr Uren, 24, was paralysed from the waist down and now uses a wheelchair.
He was medically discharged from the RAF and is seeking more than £6m from the MoD, claiming it was liable.
Robert Uren, from Cambome in Cornwall, was attending an organised …

A court in Northern Ireland has ordered one of the country’s biggest construction firms to pay compensation after the death of a sub-contractor on one of its sites.
Martin McKay, 31, was electrocuted while working on a road project in County Fermanagh in February 2006. He died when he touched the side of a lorry as it came into contact with overhead electricity cables.
The company he was carrying out the for, Northstone (NI) Ltd, had overall responsibility for the site and is therefore liable for the £60,000 compensation claim, despite it …

As a home and car owners we all know the necessity for insurance. A business with large revenue streams, employing several to hundreds of people and responsibility for their safety and considerable assets of the company obviously needs considerable insurance cover, it is simply prudent.