If you have sustained a serious injury as a result of someone else’s negligence, you may be entitled to compensation. Our aim is to secure the best possible future for you and your family and help our clients lead full and active lives.
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We are specialists in personal injury law with a proven track record in securing compensation.
We offer a no-win no-fee claims service to ease the financial pressure on you.
You can arrange a free no-obligation case review to help you decide if we’re the injury lawyers for you.
We are accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), demonstrating our experience specialist expertise in personal injury law.
We will support you throughout the claims process, providing a personal, friendly and compassionate service, with local home and hospital visits if required.
Serious injury claims involve life-altering injuries caused by catastrophic accidents, impacting a person both physically and mentally. These injuries can leave victims unable to care for themselves and can have a profound effect on an individual as well as their family.
At Stonehewer Moss, we understand the overwhelming challenges and uncertainties that come with serious injuries. With extensive experience and expertise in serious injury claims, our solicitors are committed to handling your case with care and professionalism, ensuring you receive the maximum compensation to support your recovery and future needs.
Injuries that significantly alter your quality of life are considered to be serious. This could include:
A serious injury can be caused by an accident at work, in public, in a road traffic accident and in some cases, medical negligence.
If you have suffered a serious injury in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you could be entitled to compensation.
If you’re unsure whether you’ve suffered a serious injury, consider if any of the following apply:
If any of these reflect your situation, it may indicate a serious, life-changing injury. If you need free legal advice from one of our personal injury experts, you can contact our friendly team on 01606 87200 to discuss your claim.
Yes, you can claim on behalf of someone else as their appointed litigation friend. A ‘litigation friend’ is a representative of an injured person who is either under the age of 18 or does not have the mental capacity to make legal decisions.
This representative is usually a parent, guardian, carer or relative who assists the protected person with their serious injury claim. In some circumstances the court may appoint a representative.
Generally, serious injury claims can be made within 3 years from the date of the accident. But it could be longer if, for example, you were under the age of 18 when the accident occurred, or spent a period of time incapacitated and unable to deal with your own affairs.
There are other exceptions to this rule. It is always a good idea to talk to a qualified solicitor about your accident in order to make sure that you make your claim in time.
An exact level of compensation cannot be determined without knowing what type of accident you have had, the injuries sustained as well as how they have impacted you physically, psychologically and financially.
However, The Judicial College publishes guideline figures based on historic serious injury claims, to provide an idea of the amount of compensation that could be awarded for injuries alone.
For an accurate valuation of your serious injury claim, we suggest contacting our personal injury solicitors on 01606 872200.
Compensation is split into what is referred to as ‘General Damages’ and ‘Special Damages’.
General Damages is compensation awarded for an injury itself, which includes pain, suffering and loss of amenity. These damages are more difficult to value and are based on the injury sustained and the overall impact it has had on quality of life.
Special Damages are designed to reimburse any monetary losses suffered as a result of an accident. Damage to property, cost of care, medical treatment, loss of earnings and other financial losses can all be claimed for. Documents like receipts and wage slips can be used to calculate these damages.
Experiencing a serious injury can be physically, emotionally, and mentally overwhelming. We understand the profound impact this can have on your life and extend our sincere sympathy for what you’re going through.
While we may not fully grasp your personal experience, with more than 20 years of expertise in serious injury claims, Stonehewer Moss Solicitors are equipped to help. Our goal is to secure the compensation you deserve—not just for the immediate toll on your health and finances, but for the long-term effects on your future and your loved ones.
For a free no-obligation consultation to discuss your serious injury claim, contact our team today on 01606 872200 or complete our online contact form to arrange a call back.
Call us on freephone 0800 434 6544 or 01606 87 22 00
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There are two types of injury compensation that you may be entitled to. The first, called ‘general damages’, and is awarded to compensate you for the pain and suffering caused by the injury. The second type of injury compensation, called ‘special damages’, covers actual financial losses and expenses arising from the injury. This can include lost earnings, care given to you by your friends and family, costs of treatment, travel costs and various other expenses including future losses.
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A lot of clients ask us ‘What can I claim compensation for?’. For most claims, there’s two different aspects to it. There’s General Damages and there’s Special Damages. Your General Damages relates to your injury aspects of your claim, which is your pain, suffering and loss of amenity. That takes into account obviously how bad the pain was, how long you suffered for and what it’s impacted in your life in terms of what you can and can’t do now going forwards. In addition to that you’ve got your Special Damages which is your out-of-pocket expenses. These are loss of earnings, care and assistance, travel, it might be a sports membership or something like that that you can no longer use due to the accident. It’s obviously for the claimant to always prove their losses on those ones. So if you’re unaware of how to prove it, or what you need to show it, you can either check out one of our other videos or give us a call and we can go through it with you.
The responsibility for an accident at work is very often it is the employer, even though they may try to blame you or even discipline you for the accident. However, sometimes the accident might be the responsibility of a third party, for example, a building site main contractor. It might be due to the fault of a work colleague acting in a manner not related to the job. It might even be your own fault in whole or in part. If you are unsure, get in touch with our personal injury lawyer for a free initial case review in complete confidence.
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There are certain limitation periods for making a personal injury claim and some exemptions too.
The Limitation Act stipulates the date by which you can make a claim after you have had an accident. In most cases, this is three years from the day the accident occurred. After this time, you cannot easily make a claim unless there is some special reason why you should be allowed to do so. For example, if you were unable to deal with your own affairs for a period of time.
There are exceptions, for example, the limitation date for children who have an accident when they are under 18th. is their 21st birthday. That is three years from when they became an adult.
If your injury was not caused by a one-off event, for example, a repetitive strain injury, then the three-year timeline only starts to run on the day you became aware you had an injury as a result of the negligence of a third party. This might be the day you are diagnosed with a condition by your doctor.
There are a lot of exceptions to the three-year limitation date rule (you might only have one year to make a claim if your accident was in Spain or two years if it was on a boat) so the best advice is to give us a call and we will tell you where you stand.
An interim payment in a personal injury claim is an amount of money paid by the insurance company for the Defendant to the Claimant prior to settlement of the claim. For example, in some cases, people often cannot get back to work immediately and consequently have a much-reduced income. In such cases, we can often make an application for an interim payment for you to alleviate any short-term financial difficulties.
In larger cases where someone has been very seriously injured, we may ask for an interim payment to enable works to be undertaken on the injured persons’ house to make it more accessible, for example, a walk-in shower or to lower the kitchen work surfaces for a wheelchair user.
When it comes to making a personal injury claim, one of the most important things to consider is how you will fund your case. After all, taking legal action can be costly, and if you don’t have the right funding in place, you may find yourself struggling to cover the costs.
No win no fee arrangements can be extremely beneficial for claimants, as they provide access to justice regardless of their financial situation.
However, it’s important to remember that not all no win no fee solicitors are the same. Some may charge hidden fees or have strict conditions in place, so it’s always worth doing your research before you choose a solicitor to work with.
No win no fee agreements have become a popular way for personal injury claimants to pursue compensation. But what exactly are they and what do you need to know about them? Stonehewer Moss Solicitors we will explain everything you need to know about no win no fee agreements, including how they work and the pros and cons of using them.
If your claim is successful then you become liable to pay your solicitors base costs, plus any success fee they charge. The success fee is very often misunderstood and often confused with the solicitors overall cap on costs. To be clear the success fee forms part of the overall costs charged, that is, the base costs plus the success fee.
At Stonehewer Moss we apply an overall cap on the costs we charge you based on the amount of compensation you receive. This overall cap is typically between 18% and 30% of the compensation amount recovered, although this will be subject to your individual circumstances. This is a cap both on your liability for your base fees in general and the success fee added together.
Accordingly when considering which law firm to use it is therefore much more useful (and much easier to understand) if you just ascertain what the overall cap is on your liability for legal costs is, as this is the amount that you will usually pay.
At Stonehewer Moss there is an overall cap so that your liability for all your legal costs will never exceed 30% of the damages you are awarded and can be as low as 18%.
When it comes to making a personal injury claim, one of the most important things to consider is how you will fund your case. After all, taking legal action can be costly, and if you don’t have the right funding in place, you may find yourself struggling to cover the costs.
No win no fee arrangements can be extremely beneficial for claimants, as they provide access to justice regardless of their financial situation.
However, it’s important to remember that not all no win no fee solicitors are the same. Some may charge hidden fees or have strict conditions in place, so it’s always worth doing your research before you choose a solicitor to work with.
No win no fee agreements have become a popular way for personal injury claimants to pursue compensation. But what exactly are they and what do you need to know about them? Stonehewer Moss Solicitors we will explain everything you need to know about no win no fee agreements, including how they work and the pros and cons of using them.
If your claim is successful then you become liable to pay your solicitors base costs, plus any success fee they charge. The success fee is very often misunderstood and often confused with the solicitors overall cap on costs. To be clear the success fee forms part of the overall costs charged, that is, the base costs plus the success fee.
At Stonehewer Moss we apply an overall cap on the costs we charge you based on the amount of compensation you receive. This overall cap is typically between 18% and 30% of the compensation amount recovered, although this will be subject to your individual circumstances. This is a cap both on your liability for your base fees in general and the success fee added together.
Accordingly when considering which law firm to use it is therefore much more useful (and much easier to understand) if you just ascertain what the overall cap is on your liability for legal costs is, as this is the amount that you will usually pay.
At Stonehewer Moss there is an overall cap so that your liability for all your legal costs will never exceed 30% of the damages you are awarded and can be as low as 18%.
No. Your compensation is usually net of tax. Any claim for loss of earnings will be paid less any tax and National Insurance you would have paid. If you are claiming benefits related to your accident, your award might be reduced to repay these benefits. If you are claiming benefits not related to the accident, your lump sum award may affect your entitlement to benefits. We can help you with this by creating a personal injury trust.
The value of each compensation claim for a serious injury depends on the severity of the injury.
In handling your claim, we will look at financial aspects such as medical expenses, travel costs and loss of earnings you may have had as a result of the accident. We will also factor into the value of your claim any long term medical expenses that you may incur for life-changing injuries that require ongoing medical treatment.
We will also seek to obtain interim payments where possible to help you to avoid financial hardship caused by a serious injury that wasn’t your fault.
Our aim is to get you the highest amount of compensation, quickly and stress-free, to secure the best possible future for you and your family.
For the majority of cases, any serious injury compensation claim must be made within three years of the date of the accident. There are, however, some exemptions to this rule in instances whereby you may be able to make a claim for an accident dating back further. As specialist personal injury lawyers, we will be able to advise you on your rights.
If you have suffered a serious injury, it’s best to get legal advice as soon as possible so that we can obtain crucial evidence and because there may be time limits.
We offer a Free No Obligation Case Review so that we can understand more about the accident circumstances and to advise you on whether or not you have a claim.
We will guide and support you throughout the complex personal injury claims process, dealing directly with third parties and insurance companies on your behalf to secure compensation for your injuries in a compassionate manner.
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