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.
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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 …

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 …

We are often asked what is the difference between, Legal Request and some of the other accident claims companies that you see advertising on television or other media. The answer is simple, no difference. Well not any that would have any effect on your no win no fee injury claim. There are a number of pluses to using Legal Request over any of the other accident claims companies out there.

Ever since the invention of the car there have been car accidents. As technology has improved in terms of engineering and raw materials, cars and vehicles have become more efficient and faster. All this efficiency and speed, coupled with the need to cater for modern living has resulted in more accidents. Car crashes, road traffic accidents, it does not matter what you call it, have become very formulaic for society. You crash your car, you make a no win no fee claim. Your insurance pays out and life goes on.

You may not see us in expensive accident claim television adverts, or clogging your telephone line with automated inbound sales calls, but we are looking after your better interests. This goes as far as making a claim an easy process as possible. Click on a claim link then you are presented with a simple form, we call you. You do not even have to claim, it just lets us start talking
Legal Request are committed to providing you with as much information about making a claim following an injury as possible, …