Serious Injury Case Studies
Freeclaim Solicitors have many years experience in handling serious injury or serious illness compensation claims. It is a very specialist area of the law therefore it is important to check that your personal injury lawyers have the necessary legal experience to deal with such catastrophic accident claims or serious illness claims. If you would like to speak to a serious injury lawyer, call Freeclaim Solicitors today on 0800 24 34 09 or contact our serious injury solicitors online.
Here are just a few of the types of serious injury claims our specialist serious injury solicitors have handled.
Our client was involved in a serious pedestrian road traffic accident and sustained a severe head injury rendering him incapable of returning to work and needing care and assistance. Alastair Fernie, Head of the Serious Injury Department at Freeclaim Solicitors successfully increased the compensation offer during negotiations on his client's behalf and appointed a Brain Injury Case Manager to formulate and implement a care plan. Successful settlement was reached based upon a total valuation of £1,334,000.
In another serious accident claim, Alastair Fernie, Head of the Serious Injury Department at Freeclaim Solicitors, recently secured damages of £2.9m on behalf of a client who suffered brain damage following a motorcycle accident involving difficult issues with regards to liability, loss of earnings and care costs. Freeclaim serious injury solicitors secured interim payments of £350,000 which enabled our client to purchase his own accommodation and employ a team of support workers to help him live a more independent life after his serious injuries. It is worthy of note that this was a case in which a previous firm of solicitors advised that there were insufficient chances of success to proceed further.
This year we are also working on a number of high profile poisoning/contamination cases arising out of possible health hazards in Manchester University's Rutherford Building, which have attracted the attention of the news media. Two of the academics in the rooms have already tragically died of pancreatic cancer, and a third former employee is in the final stages. These cases are very high profile poisoning cases - expected to be worth around £750,000+.
Freeclaim Solicitors specialist serious injury lawyers secured damages of £1.8m on behalf of our 56 year old client who suffered a very severe brain injury as a result of being run over when crossing the road. The compensation means that she can now live as fulfilling a life as possible with her husband and family in adapted accommodation, with the support of a case manager and a team of carers.
Our client sustained chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following an incident whilst serving as a soldier in the British Army in which he lost consciousness whilst attempting to save the life of a colleague (who subsequently died) in a fire which was caused as a result of the negligence of his employer. He was medically discharged from the Army. Our client only became aware of information which led him to believe the Ministry of Defence (MOD) were at fault three and a half years after the fire following an inquest into his colleague's death. The MOD tried to argue the case had been bought out of time (which is normally 3 years), however Alastair Fernie, Head of the Serious Injury Department, fought hard and took this issue to trial and won. After rejecting an initial offer of £200,000, Freeclaim Solicitor Alastair Fernie successfully recovered damages in the sum of £450,000.
Our client was involved in a serious motorbike accident at the age of 17 and suffered very serious injuries to his arm and leg. He was riding a field motorbike at the time and probably did not have his lights on when a car crossed his path and caused a serious motorbike accident. He sustained very serious injuries to his brachial plexus rendering his arm useless and a serious fracture to his leg. Although there was significant contributory negligence, Freeclaim serious injury lawyers secured interim payments to help meet his immediate financial needs and employ a specialist Case Manager and our client received £900,000 compensation.