Personal injury experts
100% No Win, No Fee Claims
Nothing to pay if you lose.

  • Hemel Hempstead injury victims get maximum compensation
  • Free legal advice from a friendly solicitor.
  • Specialist solicitors with up to 30 years experience
  • Find out if you can claim compensation Call 0800 073 8804

Start My Claim Online

Hemel Hempstead Personal Injury Solicitors – No Win No Fee Claims

By Mark Ainsdale. Last Updated 24th September 2021. Welcome to our Hemel Hempstead personal injury solicitors guide. On this page, you will find a guide to selecting a good team of personal injury solicitors covering Hemel Hempstead to process an accident claim on your behalf. It should contain all of the information you need to learn about why you might be eligible to make a claim, who might be liable to pay compensation, and how to choose a good legal team to handle your claim for you.

Hemel Hempstead personal injury solicitors

Hemel Hempstead, personal injury solicitors

If you have questions not covered in this guide, or you want to move straight to making a claim, please call Legal Expert on 0800 073 8804. One of our team will be ready and waiting to go over your claim with you and answer any questions that you still have.

How Do You Make A Personal Injury Claim?

If you have a valid personal injury case, a solicitor will be able to process a claim for you. Your solicitor will advise you on several issues, and these will include:

  • Whether you are eligible to make a claim.
  • Who is liable to pay compensation.
  • The types of damages that you could be able to claim for.
  • The amount that would be a sensible target to negotiate for.
  • Whether you can help by providing additional evidence or having a medical examination done to prove the extent of your injuries.

Legal Expert is an experienced accident and injury solicitor, and we can help you will all of the issues listed above. When you call us, we will ask you several questions, such as:

  • How and when did your accident happen?
  • What injuries did you sustain?
  • What effect have your injuries had on your life?
  • What is the prognosis for a full recovery?
  • Have you had to take time away from work?
  • Have you suffered any financial losses?

Questions like these help us to learn about your accident and injuries. Our personal injury solicitors for Hemel Hempstead will then give you free legal advice on what we think you should do next.

When Am I Eligible To Make This Type Of Claim?

hemel Hemstead accident statistics

Take note that violent and sexual offences are the second-highest offence in this graph showing Hemel Hempstead crimes. These would all likely be the basis of a criminal injury claim.

There are many reasons why a third party might be liable for compensation due to their actions causing you harm, such as:

  • You suffered physical injuries that were caused by the actions of a third party.
  • You became ill or contracted a disease that was caused by the actions of a third party.
  • You have developed a severe psychological condition due to the actions of a third party.
  • Your private goods and chattels were damaged or lost due to the actions of a third party.

When we say the third party, we are talking about any distinctly separate legal entity, for example:

  • A supermarket
  • A restaurant.
  • Your landlord or housing
  • A doctor or
  • A restaurant.
  • The driver of a car.
  • The UK Police force.
  • A travel company.

As you can see, pretty much every person, company, organisation or Government body can be pursued for compensation if they took action that caused you harm. Call Legal Expert on the number at the bottom of this guide to learn who might be liable to pay compensation in your case. And our personal injury solicitors for Hemel Hempstead can also advise on how to claim online today.

Five Quick Reasons Why You Should Use A Solicitor To Make Your Claim

There are many reasons why it simply makes sense to use a personal injury solicitor to process your claim. In the UK you can do all of the work yourself, but it is not recommended. For these reasons:

  • A solicitor will be able to help you prepare for your claim and gather evidence.
  • A solicitor will be more experienced at processing claims, meaning they have a higher chance of success.
  • A solicitor will be skilled in negotiating a settlement, meaning they will likely get you more compensation.
  • A solicitor understands the law and how to represent you in court if an out of court settlement can’t be reached.
  • A solicitor can offset their legal fees and only charge you if they win your claim for you.

Legal Expert covers all of these issues above. We are a specialist injury and accident firm, and we can help you get the compensation that is rightfully yours. Call us on the number at the end of the page to learn how.

Reading Reviews Of Solicitors Can Be Helpful

Finding the best personal injury lawyer to process your claim is something that is going to take a little work to achieve. You will first need to create a list of legal firms that might be suitable and then check each one. A way to speed this process up is to search for personal injury solicitor reviews. These can be used to create a list of potential legal firms to handle your claim. If you do check reviews, be sure to make a note of the key facts, such as:

  • That the reviewer was claiming for.
  • Whether the claim was successful.
  • How old the review is.
  • Whether the solicitor offered a Conditional Fee Agreement.
  • How much the solicitor took as their fee.
  • Whether the review had a positive experience and recommended the legal firm.

Facts like this are going to make choosing a legal firm easier. However, it will still take a while to compare all the reviews and choose a solicitor. Legal Expert can remove this time overhead by helping you. Call us on the number at the bottom of the page and speak to one of our team. The Hemel Hempstead personal injury solicitors will go over your claim with you and recommend how best to proceed.

Where Does My Solicitor Have To Be Based?

To answer the question, should I use the solicitor near to me? The answer is no; you should use the right solicitor. In some cases, the right solicitor could be a local solicitor or a solicitor 100 miles away, regardless of their location. You are under no legal obligation to use a local solicitor to process your claim.

More important than location is how skilled and experienced the solicitor is in handling claims similar to your own. A specialist team of accident and injury solicitors is going to be the best choice. So, unless your local solicitor is a specialist in processing such claims, you would probably better off searching further afield. For example, Legal Expert provides a specialised accident and injury claims service to all residents of the UK. We focus entirely on helping claimants get the maximum level of compensation they can for their injuries or illness.

Call the personal injury solicitors in Hemel Hempstead that we work with to learn how to claim.

What Personal Injuries Can We Help You Claim For?

Legal Expert is a team of specialist personal injury lawyers. We can tackle any claim from simple road accidents or accidents such as slipping on a wet floor in a restaurant to complex claims involving the death of an NHS patient due to medical negligence.

We do see some types of claims much more commonly than others, though. We have given these common claim types their sections in this guide below. If you don’t see your type of claim is covered, don’t worry. We can still help you. Just call us on the number at the bottom of the page. One of our team will go over your claim and let you know how we can be of assistance.

Claim Industrial Disease

Suppose an employer in Hemel Hempstead or anywhere else allows you to be exposed to a health hazard while at work. They could be liable to pay you compensation. There are required by law to provide you with a healthy place to work.

Legal Expert can help with industrial disease and workplace illness claims. Please speak to one of our team on the number below to learn how. You may also like to read this guide we have published:

A guide to claiming for an industrial disease

Claim For Medical Negligence

Occurrences of medical malpractice are still quite common at both privately operated and NHS run hospitals. Whether they work for a private or state-run healthcare facility, every medical professional must cause no harm to a patient through clinical negligence. If they do, then a valid reason to make a compensation claim could exist.

If you were injured by a doctor, surgeon, nurse, etc., then Legal Expert can offer you some free medical negligence advice. Just call the Hemel Hempstead personal injury solicitors on the number at the end of the page. You can also read over our specific guide to negligence here:

A guide to clinical negligence claims

We can also arrange for you to receive a free medical examination in Hemel Hempstead to support your negligence claim from the following doctors:

Edit
Q.F. Mirza Treatment room, Sportspace Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead HP1 1JS
Park Road Hemel Hempstead
Ketan Bhatt Regus Building Hemel Hempstead HP2 4TZ
Suite G, Ground Floor
Breakspear Park,
Breakspear Way
Afolake Oyinloye Hemel Hempstead Beta Health Clinic, Hemel Hempstead HP1 1LE
67 Marlowes,

Claim For Trip And Fall Injuries

These accidents are a very common cause for people to make an injury claim. They really can happen at any time and anywhere. For reasons such as:

  • Wet and dirty floors in a restaurant.
  • Broken paving slabs and potholes in the street.
  • Obstructions left by shop staff stocking shelves.
  • Torn carpets and cracked tiles in a hotel room.

There are far too many reasons to list. No matter how your slip, trip or fall was caused, Legal Expert should be able to help you with a claim. Call one of our team on the number at the end of this guide to proceed.

Claims For Serious Injuries

If a person is injured in a way that will negatively affect them for the rest of their life, then a personal injury claim would have to include compensation to cover every year in the future. For a young person, this can easily amount to millions of pounds. Examples of serious injuries would be:

  • Damage to internal organs.
  • Loss of an arm or leg.
  • Full or partial paralysis.
  • Serious psychological damage.
  • Life-threatening diseases.

If you have suffered a serious injury such as these above, Legal Expert can help you get the most compensation possible. Call us on the number at the end of the page to gets started. You can also read over our full guide to these claims here:

A guide to serious injury compensation

Hemel Hempstead Workplace Accident Compensation Claims

Legislation such as that laid down by the Health & Safety Executive and the Building Occupiers Act state that an employer must keep their working premises safe for staff at all times. If they don’t and an employee is injured, then a valid reason to make a claim should exist.

Suppose you need to claim for an accident at work. Legal Expert can help you. Please speak to one of our personal injury solicitors for Hemel Hempstead to proceed.

Hemel Hempstead Local Area Authority Recorded Workplace Accidents

The table below presents statistics related to workplace accidents in Hemel Hempstead from 2012 to 2014:

Edit
Accident 2012 2013 2014
Not known 20 18 19
Electrical 2 0 0
Machinery 4 4 5
Fire 0 1 0
Chemical 6 4 1
Fall 6 9 17
Animal 3 0 2
Lifting 51 35 53
Assault 10 10 13
Slip, trip or fall 50 38 47
Struck against 11 6 3
Hit by vehicle 6 4 5
Struck by object 22 23 21
Crushed 1 0 0

Hemel Hempstead Accidents On The Road And Car Crashes

Road traffic accidents are the most frequent of all claims we handle for our clients. Indeed, these are the most common types of accidents that solicitors and lawyers will process claims for in the UK.

Legal Expert can help you claim anything from a minor case of whiplash caused by a low-speed rear collision to the death of the family breadwinner in a high-speed motorway collision.

Please call us on the number at the bottom of this guide to learn how we can help.

Fatalities Or Serious Casualties In Road Traffic Accidents In This Area

In the table below, you will find a breakdown of the types of RTA that happened in Hemel Hempstead from 2015 to 2017:

Edit
2015 2016 2017
Other 3 3 3
Car 26 21 17
Motorcycle 12 21 23
Cycle 6 6 4
Pedestrian 20 29 25

No Win No Fee Compensation Claims

Legal Expert can be considered as your No Win No Fee claims experts, ready to help you make your accident or injury claim in a risk-free way. Our national claims service is available all across the UK to help claimants get the maximum level of compensation that they are eligible for. Call us on the number below to start your claim today. And this table offers examples of what you could achieve in compensation using guidelines from the Judicial College.

Edit
Injury Severity Notes Compensation
Brain Damage Very severe The person might be able to follow some basic commands. However, they will need full-time care and show little meaningful response to their environment. £282,010 to £403,990
Neck Injury Severe A neck injury that is associated with incomplete paraplegia or results in permanent spastic quadriparesis. In the region of £148,330
Knee Injury Severe (ii) Constant pain and limited movement caused by a leg fracture that has extended into the knee joint. £52,120 to £69,730
Arm Injury Less severe The person will have suffered with significant disabilities. However a substantial recovery has taken place or is expected to. £19,200 to £39,170
Back Injury Moderate (ii) Frequently encountered back injuries, that disturb the ligaments and muscles and cause backache. £12,510 to £27,760
Shoulder Injury Serious A dislocated shoulder with damage to the lower part of the brachial plexus that causes shoulder and neck pain. £12,770 to £19,200
Elbow Injury Moderate or minor Elbow injuries such as lacerations, simple fractures or tennis elbow syndrome. The recovery rate will affect how much is awarded. Up to £12,590
Leg Injury Less serious (iii) Simple tibia or fibula fractures, or soft-tissue injuries, with minor ongoing symptoms. Up to £11,840
Whiplash Injuries With Psychological Injuries One or more Lasting for 18-24 months £4,345
Whiplash Injuries One or more Lasting for 18-24 months £4,215

How Do No Win No Fee Claims Work?

When you engage Legal Expert as your No Win No Fee personal injury solicitors, you pay nothing when we start your claim and nothing as we process your claim. If we fail and you are not awarded any compensation, we don’t charge you anything. When we win, we take our fee out of the money we received for you and then send you the rest. Please contact us about how Hemel Hempstead personal injury solicitors utilise this No Win No Fee policy.

Where Can You Learn More Personal Injury Claims

If you want to check out some more information regarding accident and injury claims, then we have plenty more detailed guides on this site, such as:

A guide to making a claim if you have been injured in a car accident

A guide to claiming if you had an accident in Burger King

For detailed legal and medical information, we recommend checking the NHS website and the UK Government website. For workplace accidents, the Health & Safety Executive website is also a great source of information.

Speak To Us Today

Are you ready to engage Legal Expert as your No Win No Fee solicitor to process your accident or injury claim? If you are, please speak to one of our team on 0800 073 8804 today. They will go over your claim with you and discuss your options before helping you to get your claim started immediately.

Details Of Helpful Services In The Borough Of Havering

Hemel Hempstead Police Station
Combe St
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1HL
Tel: +44 1707 354000
Web: https://www.herts.police.uk/Information-and-services/About-us/Police-stations/Police-stations
Opening hours: 24 hours.

St Albans County Court
The Court Building
Bricket Road
St Albans
AL1 3JW
Tel: +44 300 123 5577
Web: https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/st-albans-county-court
Opening hours: 8:30 to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Hemel Hempstead Hospital
Hillfield Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP2 4AD
Tel: +44 1442 213141
Web: http://www.nhs.uk/Services/hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=1439
Opening hours: 24 hours.

Other Useful Guides

Hemel Hempstead Personal Injury Solicitors FAQs

What is a personal injury claim?

When the victim of an accident that wasn’t their fault makes a compensation claim for their injuries.

What would the compensation consist of, should they receive a settlement figure?

So, the compensation is divided into two parts: general damages, with the other being special damages.

What are general damages?

These pertain to the specific impact of the injury, both physically and mentally, along with suffering and loss of amenity.

And what are special damages?

These focus on other costs such as loss of income, medical bills, transportation and any necessary home modifications.

Who is the defendant?

This is the person or organisation that you’re filing your claim against.

And what is the Letter Of Claim?

This is where you put your intention to claim in writing, with the defendant being the recipient.

What happens when the defendant receives the Letter Of Claim?

The defendant can either accept or deny liability at that stage, with the latter triggering legal proceedings.

And when must the defendant make this decision by?

So, the defendant has up to 28 days to respond to the Letter Of Claim in this manner.

Thank you for reading our Hemel Hempstead personal injury solicitors guide.

    Contact Us

    Fill in your details below for a free callback

    Meet The Team