Road Traffic Accident Solicitors – RTA Claims
Being involved in a road traffic accident can have detrimental effects on all aspects of your life, from your health and fitness, your mobility, your ability to work through to your recovery and much more. When you are involved in a road traffic accident, you can claim compensation for a range of circumstances:
Whilst a significant amount of injuries that occur as a result of a road traffic accident will resolve following rehabilitation, some injuries can be much more serious with permanent or long-term effects. These include brain injuries, spinal injuries, amputations and polytrauma which will involve intense rehabilitation and multiple provisions to enable the injured person and their family to return to life as it was pre-accident as much as possible.
In the case of fatal accidents, we ensure that the dependents are financially recompensed for the loss of their loved one and the financial support/income they have lost.
At Slater and Gordon, we go above and beyond securing you a final settlement figure. It is difficult to estimate how long a case may take to resolve, but we’re committed to ensuring you are able to get treatment and support you need. We’ll work hard to make sure you have access to any necessary treatment, rehabilitation aids and equipment, and adaptions to your property – or even support you in buying a new property if needed – as soon as possible to assist with your future independence.
In most cases we can obtain financial assistance in the form of interim payments, which are payments made before a case reaches a final settlement. Interim payments can pay for rehabilitation, loss of earnings, adapted accommodation, equipment and professional care.
When someone has been injured, the chances are that their entitlement to benefits will not be at the forefront of their or their family’s mind. However, their financial position can be a concern and one more worry they could really do without. We instruct dedicated benefits and welfare rights advisors on cases, who can explain all there is to know about benefits entitlements and can also help make any applications and challenge decisions.
We also have a dedicated Trusts team who can ensure that any means tested benefits are protected from any compensation received. They provide specialist advice and arrange a Personal Injury Trust for the compensation, as money held in such trust does not affect entitlement to means tested provisions.
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