Can I Make an Injury Claim?

When our specialist medical negligence team have reviewed your medical records, they will have a working idea whether you have a reasonable claim.

Your case could be a relatively simple missed fracture claim or the more serious and complicated case of delayed treatment.

In a case of an unnecessary delay in treatment advances in medical care mean that in many cases, treating cancer in the early stages will lead to survival and even cure. Sadly, there are all too many examples of the signs and symptoms being missed until too late. And often, the real question to be investigated for a successful compensation claim is whether it is too late - or whether in fact the delay made no difference.

Investigations are complicated by the different judgments doctors and lawyers make about what would have happened if treatment had been carried out at an earlier date. Doctors will start treatment if there is a chance of improvement or cure. But the courts want more proof than that if they are to award compensation - they want to know that cure was probable, not just possible, and so want it to be proved that there was over a 50% chance it would have been successful. That can be hard in cases where delay has, according to the experts, made the difference between a 40% chance of cure, and virtually zero. The House of Lords confirmed that this was the law in 2003 in the important case of Gregg -v- Scott.

Our specialist team will advise you if you have a case.

If you do have a valid personal injury compensation claim and you decide to instruct Clear Answers to deal with the matter for you, we will recover our legal fees from the person responsible for your injury. Telephone us now on 0800 783 9019 or complete one of our online compensation claim forms.