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 …

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.

What is stress?
According to the Health and Safety Executive, the formal definition of stress is:
The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work
It is important to realise that stress NOT an illness, but a state. However if it becomes prolonged then it is possible for mental and physical illness to develop.
While well-organised and structured work is considered good for people, it can also be an enormous source of stress and anxiety to others. It is important to recognise that there is …

A vital aspect of your daily life are your senses. As a human being you traverse this life being fed data from sound, touch, taste, small and sight. Any interruption of your senses and your user experience of the world is impaired. Your capability of functioning after your accident is limited. This Legal Request article is about injury to the eye or eyes following an accident and realistic compensation amounts.

When considering an accident claim, many of the people I speak to have had an air of caution about them. Some may find it hard to believe that although it is reported in the press that this country is developing a full compensation culture (£500,000 for a cut finger reported in the press this week!), many potential accident claimants are reluctant to make an accident claim if they have not taken a day off sick from work. This Legal Request article takes a look into making an accident claim if you have not been off sick from work.

When considering a personal injury accident claim against work, it is important that you understand the context of your claim. Understanding the purpose of your injury claim will aid you healing process and help you educate others on that process. This Legal Request article looks at the reasoning behind making a personal injury claim against work.

Last week mother-nature was teasing us; a few warm days brought out the daffodil shoots, gardeners and frolicking children, now we’re all dodging hail stones and scraping ice off our cars again!