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If your child has been injured in an accident where someone else was at fault or negligent, then no matter how serious, we understand how difficult this experience can be for the child and also for you as parents or relatives.
When the injuries are serious, with the possibility of life-changing implications, it is one of the worst things that can happen to any parent or family.
The immediate aftermath is a particularly harrowing time for parents, but for all concerned, the initial focus must be on the care and well-being of your child. This too would be our priority.
Accidents involving children can be a very traumatic experience for the whole family.
If your child has suffered an injury, whether at school or nursery, in a playground or in a shop, then you will want the best legal advice to help ensure everything possible is being done to right those wrongs, with your child's well-being receiving total prioritisation and the closest attention.
Our Child Injury Lawyers will provide you and your family with the best representation possible throughout the claim process.
The injury itself will no doubt be causing your child pain and suffering, but you may also be in financial difficulty due to a loss of income after taking time off to care for your child. This can add further strain to your situation and should not be allowed to happen.
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There are times when accidents do happen as children explore the world, however at other times you as a parent hand over the supervision and safety of your child to others.
This can be at school for example when you trust the teachers to take care of them at school or on excursions. Rightly, you should expect there to be a safe, child-friendly environment provided at all times. If something goes wrong and your child is injured then it may be that the duty of care which should have been provided has failed.
Some of the most common scenarios involving injuries to children that we deal with are:
Do you require a Child Injury Lawyer to help you claim compensation?
Our Child Injury Lawyers have huge experience in helping parents and families through this most testing of times, and we have relationships in place allowing us to call upon a wealth of medical expertise to ensure the best chances of making the fullest recovery are made available to your child.
We completely empathise with what you will be going through, and we are acutely aware that considering legal proceedings against those liable for your child’s injury will be the least important item occupying your thoughts in the immediate days after the accident.
A serious injury to a child is every parent’s greatest fear, but if your child has been injured through the fault or negligence of others you are entitled to claim compensation.
For the most serious of injuries, likely to have long-lasting effects on your child’s future, financial compensation may well be needed to adapt the home and provide the capacity for leading the fullest life possible for you and your child. There will no doubt be many challenges and stresses to face along the way, but our expert Child Injury Lawyers will lighten the load as much as is possible.
At PSR Solicitors will be part of the support your family needs in the days and months following the injury. We are dedicated to helping you achieve the best outcome. Call our Child Injury Lawyers at any of our offices across Wales and the North West of England to see how we can help.
PSR can manage your case No Win No Fee. Indeed, the vast majority of the injury claims we handle are dealt with in this way. Following initial discussions surrounding your case, one of our dedicated Child Injury Solicitors will be able to confirm that we can handle your case in this way.
At the start of your claim, we will discuss funding options and advise you on what is most suitable. For parents who are members of trade unions or who have legal expenses cover as part of their home insurance policy, it may prove more effective to fund a claim using these provisions.
Ultimately, if we think your claim is best supported by our No Win No Fee agreement we will confirm this clearly.
Most firms will charge a 25% success fee when handling a case on a No Win No Fee basis. This means that if you win, the firm will take 25% of your compensation as their legal fee.
Our No Win No Fee Solicitors are proud to offer a discounted success fee of only 15% for injury cases involving children. When you instruct one of our Child Injury Lawyers, you don't just have access to leading professionals in the field, but you also keep more of your compensation to get your child the care they need.
If you are looking to claim compensation for a child injury and you want free advice from a fully qualified solicitor then please contact us now. Using one of our specialist Child Injury Solicitors ensures that you have a better chance of winning your claim and receiving all of the compensation and help that you are entitled to all on a No Win No Fee basis.
With offices in Colwyn Bay, Ellesmere Port, Rhyl, Shotton, Wrexham, Wallasey, and Chester, PSR is a leading Personal Injury Law Firm in Wales and Personal Injury Lawyers in Cheshire.
We regularly act for clients on child accident claims across North Wales, Cheshire, Merseyside, and Liverpool. As recognised expert Personal Injury Solicitors, we can support your needs wherever you live in Wales, England & Northern Ireland.
The team at PSR solicitors is best placed to help you with your Child Accident Compensation Claim so for confidential, professional legal advice don’t hesitate to contact us today.
If your child has been involved in an accident or has been injured in any way, through no fault of your own, contact us today and speak to one of our team so that we can help you get your life back on track.
Richard Layfield LLB (Hons)
Solicitor - Head of Personal Injury
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Paul Rossiter
Paul Rossiter LLB (Hons)
Managing Director
Richard Layfield
Mark House
Mark House LLB (Hons)
Solicitor - Head of Litigation
Jasmine Ostanek
Jasmine Ostanek LLB (Hons)
Solicitor
In personal injury cases where the injured person is a child, they need somebody to represent their best interests on their behalf. This person is known as a litigation friend.
In most cases the litigation friend is usually a parent, but any eligible person can apply to be someone’s litigation friend.
The process of making a claim following an accident allows you to receive money to help cover a range of expenses and treatments that may be incurred or required.
Of course, every accident differs from case to case, so compensation settlement values also differ greatly depending on many variables surrounding the accident and the circumstances surrounding family life.
When valuing a claim, the severity of the injury and the amount of pain and suffering caused are considered, as is the possibility of pain in later life and the potential need for surgery at later stages of child development too.
Whether treatments and certain types of care or equipment can facilitate a better quality of life will also be taken into account. With some child injuries, parents are forced to become a primary carer, which makes it difficult to work. A loss of earnings forced on parents will also be factored into the calculation of the final compensation settlement figure.
Our specialist Child Injury Lawyers will help you claim compensation for:
Compensation can be claimed for many additional areas if it can be shown to the courts, that losses have resulted from the injury to your child or that additional expense has been sustained.
A full discussion with our team will help define what can be claimed for
When you first contact the Child Injury lawyers at PSR Solicitors, we aim to help you feel reassured immediately. One of our friendly team will listen carefully as you relay the circumstances of the incident that has led to the injury. We will ask further questions as we listen to your story of what has happened in order to ensure our complete understanding.
This first consultation is completely free of charge and we may even be able to confirm at this initial stage whether we can handle the case on a No Win No fee basis, although it could be that further information is required before we can confirm this.
Following this initial conversation, we will be able to inform you over the next steps and describe the best way of progressing the claim for your child.
As a first step, our team will contact those parties believed to be liable for your child's injury to inform them we believe a claim for injury compensation is fair and justified, and to seek early confirmation as to their acceptance of blame for what has occurred.
If responsibility is accepted, we will seek an interim compensation amount. This can alleviate any immediate financial pressures, help fund private medical care, or other expenses incurred following an injury to your child. These initial payments will not affect the total compensation award that may eventually be reached, but will obviously be taken out of the final award.
Our Child Injury Lawyers will examine every detail of the circumstances that led to your child's injury. Our team will leave no stone unturned. Evidence gathering is crucial, especially when those believed to be responsible dispute their liability.
We will liaise with the police if necessary and conduct our own investigation to gather as much evidence as is possible from CCTV footage, eye-witnesses, and we can call on independent medical experts as well.
Where the injuries sustained are of a significant degree, PSR has a network of specialist medical professionals we can rely upon for the very best diagnosis and prognosis for the long-term impact that such an injury may leave on your child and their capacity to live a full and independent life.
Medical expertise can also help design special care-package measures that may be required to help your child make the fullest recovery possible. The costs of such care needs can be substantial, and this must be factored into the calculation of the compensation claim.
Compensation claims that go to court can sometimes take a long time to settle.
This process can also be draining and stressful for the family, especially where multiple parties are involved, and liability is disputed.
PSR Solicitors will always try to negotiate claims out of court for this very reason, but sometimes court is necessary, and if so, you can rest assured that our ability as tenacious injury claim litigators will ensure your claim succeeds.
If liability is disputed, or if the compensation award value we claim is contested by those liable for the injury, we will instruct court proceedings. Even when court proceedings are started, many claims eventually settle before the court date. We will stand by you throughout this process and ensure strain on the family unit is kept to a minimum. You can rely on PSR Solicitors.
All claims that do proceed to the courts must also go before a judge for an infant approval hearing.
An Infant Approval Hearing (also known as a 'Damages Approval Hearing') is heard after the child's compensation claim has settled.
Where a child is injured, it is deemed insufficient for the claimant to purely accept the settlement and receive payment. Under Part 21 of the Civil Procedure Rule, a judge must be satisfied that the award value is reasonable, and the child's well-being and best interests are being properly catered for.
When a claim is made for compensation following an injury to a child, the courts must approve the final compensation settlement. This process must be followed irrespective of whether the claim goes to court or not.
So, even when a claim is settled out of court, the solicitors must prepare the relevant paperwork for the Infant Approval Hearing.
These measures are all in place to protect the child and their future. The purpose of the Infant Approval Hearing is to ensure:
Claims made by parents or guardians on behalf of children under 18 years of age are put into a secure trust account until the injured child turns 18 years of age. However, a parent or guardian can decide to access these funds to cover essential costs such as medical expenses if required.
If the child is 18 years of age, the compensation will be paid directly to them.
There are a few special considerations to keep in mind compared to adult claims. First and foremost, it is important to understand that children are not considered fully capable of making decisions for themselves, which means that they will often require a legal guardian to act on their behalf in a claim.
In terms of the legal process, child serious injury claims may involve different procedures than adult claims. For example, there may be stricter rules around the admissibility of evidence and the use of expert witnesses in cases involving children. Additionally, the court may appoint a guardian ad litem (a person appointed by the court to represent the interests of a child in legal proceedings) to ensure that the child's best interests are taken into account throughout the process.
The compensation awarded in child serious injury claims may be different from that awarded in adult claims. This is because the potential for long-term impacts on a child's development and quality of life must be taken into account when determining the amount of compensation.
If your child is under the age of 18, they are deemed too young to make a claim for themselves. As a parent, you can pursue compensation on behalf of your child.\n \nIn the eyes of the law, a parent can initiate such a claim until the child is 18 years old, but we would urge you not to wait. Gathering evidence and proving liability is always most effectively handled as soon as you are able to contemplate making a claim after the injury.\n \nA person can claim compensation themselves for an injury that happened to them as a child once they are 18. An individual would then have 3 years from their 18th birthday to make the injury claim.\n \nIn exceptional circumstances that surround the mental capacity of the injured person, this 3-year limit can sometimes be extended. Again, the specialist serious injury lawyers at PSR solicitors are perfectly positioned to advise on your own particular situation.\n \nFind out more about child injury claims\n
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