Personal Injury Solicitors Can Answer Your Compensation Questions
One of the main questions people have that have suffered a personal injury is, how much am I entitled to claim?
Before going through what many will perceive to be a gruelling procedure, on top of the incident itself that has resulted in the claim, they will need some reassurance it is going to be worthwhile.
The first interview with a personal injury solicitor may need to be quite frank and involve disclosing some of your personal details in order to see whether or not your claim is worth persuing.
The good news is that for some types of claims, such as damage to property, there are straightforward methods to establish how much compensation is likely to come your way. In others, including where pain and suffering is involved and it is possible that blame may be shared, it is far more difficult for your solicitor to make such a call.
One obvious example of where your personal injury solicitors should be able to give you a reliable indication about the extent of your compensation claim is where compensation is equal to the value of the item either damaged or destroyed.
The claimant in these situations can expect to receive compensation to a 'replacement' value rather than the actual value. For example, imagine that you have a television which is 5 years old and is damaged by a criminal act or a plain accident. The compensation amount claimed for, should be that of the amount of a new TV, not the amount it would cost to replace the destroyed old one.
Injuries which are most common do fit to a standard scale of compensation amounts. Hernia injuries are typically paid from