Trip-Slip-Fall Advocacy
By: Rudi ONeil , Posted On:2009-02-20
When people suffer a trip/slip/fall-style injury there is a great deal of divarication in relation to just how serious the injury is. Someone can be injured in a rub-my-knee-stoically-carry-on-with-daily-business capacity, or it can be a great deal worse, resultant in fractures, breakages, sprains and psychological discontent. There is protocol to be observed if a trip/slip/fall is of a severity level that warrants a personal injury claim.
When a person is injured in the trip/slip/fall capacity they need to get themselves immediate medical attention. If in some kind of business premises you need to get a worker there to call you an ambulance. The worker is then obligated to record the incident in some kind of injury-log. Therefore there will be two valuable pieces of evidence in relation to your incident, as the medical staff that deal with your injuries will also make official medical recordings of what happened. The more proof of injury that you have, the more watertight your claim will be, with less chance of the insurance company you will be up against, being able to worm their way out of it.
Once all of this has been carried out it is important to obtain photographs of the area where the injury occurred. Even if the area no longer poses any injury risk it is important to have photographic evidence as it means that those involved in the case can build up a picture of what happened and be able to make a proper evaluation of everything.
Now that you have been to hospital and got the all important medical report, as well as getting the equally important photographs, you need to sit down and make an account of what happened. The sooner you do this the better. If you leave it for ages and are asked, (either by yourself or others) to relay information then there is a good chance of you giving conflicting information because of your ailing memory. This will make it seem as if you are fabricating things. Therefore you need to sit down and write what happened prior to the event, during the event, and posterior to the event.
Once everything that is detailed above has been completed, you can then get yourself legal representation, either directly from a solicitor or from some kind of Management Company like the ones that advertise on television. There are two key factors that are vitally important when hiring someone’s legal expertise. You need to make sure that the person has been to court before. If they have not then there is a chance of the defence team walking all over them. The defence team are far more likely to take the claim to court if they feel that your solicitor is under-qualified, as they will feel that they stand a good chance of winning. If your solicitor has been to court, then they will feel that they are wasting their time going to court, and they will also be of the realisation that the cost implications of going to court are going to leave their client dissatisfied. The other important thing is to make sure that your solicitor has dealt with trip/slip/fall incidences previously, as they will understand what to do in relation to your case.
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