You are entitled to be compensated for travel anxiety, adjustment disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks and other psychological and psychiatric consequences of being involved in an accident if they are deemed to have been caused by the accident. We use Consultant Psychiatrists who have expertise in dealing with the stress and anxiety that road traffic accident can cause.

Yes if you find that your symptoms have deteriorated as a result of the accident then you can claim compensation. Medical-Legal Consultants that we use will ask you for your previous history and they can guage the extent to which the accident has affected your previous condition.

Yes. Some people suffer immediate pain, others develop pain over 24-72 hours later. With regard to back complaints, Consultants would even say that these can develop up to 7-14 days post accident. However any symptoms that only develop more than a couple of weeks after the accident for the first time are unlikely to be direct result of the accident.

If the hospital has merely delayed treatment but ultimately made it no difference to the long term prognosis then your claim remains against the negligent driver of the other car or a negligent employer if it was an accident at work and there is no need to complicate matters by involving a health trust. If however your long term prognosis has been fundamentally altered by a failure in your medical treatment then that would constitute a potential separate claim. Their negligence has to be very significant to over ride the negligence of the person who caused the injury in the first place.

We have Medical-Legal Thoracic Surgeons who deal with issues that arise from injuries around the chest and thorax. One can often develop damage around the rib cage as a result of significant seat belt restraint compression injuries.

You can claim for the nursing care that they provided to you which will often be the equivalent or indeed more than they may have lost in wages this is are part of your claim rather than a separate claim by them for their wage loss.

We would always suggest that you go to your GP immediately. However in addition we do have Consultant breast surgeons who will check out the lump. In almost all cases it turns out to be a result of the seat belt restraint injury having being so severe that the tissue in the area of the breast has died and hardened into a lump. This is compensatable both with regard to the lump that results and indeed the worry and anxiety caused by finding such a lump and worrying that it might be something more sinister.

We arrange private MRI scans where it is recommended by the medical legal consultant as being an appropriate way of determining the injury you have suffered and these scans can usually be carried out within 3-6 weeks. We pay for these scans and then recover the cost from the other side at the successful conclusion of your case.

Tinnitus is a known phenomenon arising from significant road traffic accidents and we have ENT Consultants who can provide us with Medical-Legal Reports dealing with this distressing symptom.

Serious road traffic accidents can cause retina problems and we have Ophthalmologists who provide medical legal reports dealing with any concerns in that regard.

This can be Parathesia which results from the soft tissue damage round the nerves although if symptoms persist we would use Medical-Legal Neurologists to check the extent and level of damage to the peripheral nerves to ensure you do not suffer long term symptoms.

Fibromyalgia sufferers often find that the accident has a detrimental effect on their symptoms. The vulnerability that comes from being a fibromyalgia sufferer often means that the extent and duration of symptoms can be significant.

You must immediately seek to have a scan for reassurance sake but even if the news is reassuring we understand that there is always a residual concern in the back of any mothers mind and this can be taken into account when seeking compensation on the basis you have suffered an additional stress and anxiety.

Yes we have Medical-Legal plastic Surgeons who deal with any cuts, burns or other disfigurement arising from a road traffic accident or any other type of accident.

If out Medical-Legal Consultant feels that an x-ray would be appropriate in light of your symptoms then that can be arranged for you as part of the legal process. It is important to understand the full picture before committing yourself to full settlement.

It is recognised that if a vehicle is less than four years old when it is involved in an accident that it will suffer depreciation as a result. The diminution in value is calculated by a combination of the amount of repair cost and the pre accident value of the vehicle. We utilise independent engineers to calculate this figure. The courts and insurance companies no longer feel that motor traders are a reliable guide to depreciation because there are so many variables when there calculating a value for trade in purposes. Occasionally if the damage is very light or involves bolt on bolt off parts, depreciation may not be considered appropriate.

Unfortunately a vehicle is always valued on the basis that it is road worthy and therefore you won’t get any enhanced value even though you haven’t had any use out of these new tyres through no fault of your own.

Yes you can claim the cost of changing over the insurance week by week to cover the replacement hire vehicle and your broker should automatically provide you with receipts which we can use to recover the money.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) recommends that even if there is no visible damage to your car seats that you replace them as a precaution. Therefore you are entitled to the cost of replacing the car seats.

No it should not be. The car in front of you that you were pushed into can only claim in law against a negligent driver. You were not negligent, it was the vehicle behind you that was negligent and therefore if you receive any letter of claim we would re-direct that claim to the insurer of the vehicle that struck you and we would advise the insurance company or the lawyer for the vehicle in front that you were not to blame. It is a myth to think that you have to compensate the vehicle in front and then pass the claim along. You are not negligent and should not therefore be involved.

If you have a receipt then yes we can attempt to recover the cost of the fuel that you have not had the chance to use through no fault of your own.

Yes you are entitled to hire “like for like” and therefore you are entitled to hire a vehicle suitable for your needs similar to your own car.

Unless you suffered a facial or head injury that could have been avoided by the airbag then whether it should or should not have deployed is irrelevant. Of course if the accident is someone elses fault then you still have a claim for your injury against them in full. We have found that airbags deploy increasingly seldom and only in the most serious of accidents as the sensors have become more sophisticated.

Car seats can break under the most extreme of pressure as part of a way as minimising the load on the human body. If your seat breaks in the accident it is evidence that you have been involved in a very significant accident. We would always draw attention to this in seeking compensation for you from the insurance company to demonstrate the significance of the G-force you are likely to have experienced.

If you are obliged to recoup to your employer wages that they advanced to you while you were absent as a result of an accident that wasn’t your fault then that does not come out of your injury compensation but will be claimed in addition to the compensation for your injury from the other side.

You cannot claim for the wage loss itself but you can claim for loss of amenity. We would argue on your behalf that you have lost the benefit of being able to take those holidays when it suited you when you were feeling better and this argument would be factored into settlement negotiations.

Yes you can claim for overtime and it can either be calculated in the basis of your overtime for the same period the previous year or in the previous three months before the accident or by comparison to another worker who has the same overtime opportunities as you.

An insurance company when compensating you for your injury have to pay the government back any benefits received by you as a direct result of your injury. The insurance company only has to pay you the difference between what you would have earned had your wages been paid in full and the benefits you received so that you don’t end up better off.