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Personal injury claim types

Our personal injury lawyers form the most experienced personal injury law firm in the country. They have set important recent legal precedents in personal injury accident compensation claims. We offer access to lawyers with over 85 years experience of acting only for injured people with a national database of experts to support your claim.

Strict time limits apply to making a claim for any type of personal injury, so please contact an experienced solicitor as soon as you think you may have a claim for compensation.

Whatever your injury claim, we have expert teams across the country to give you free claim advice. Visit our information and advice section or our section giving guidance on gathering information and evidence should you be involved in an accident and believe you may have a valid accident claim.

Clear Answers have teams of experts specialising in following personal injury claim types:

Accident claims
Accidents at work
Asbestos - related claims
Dental negligence
Harmful substances
Industrial diseases
Medical negligence
Military claims
Product liability
Public liability
Road traffic accident claims
Serious injuries and serious accidents

Accident claims

Accidents can and do happen anywhere. An accident which takes place in an hotel, for example, may be a work accident but may equally be an accident involving a member of the public. The status of the injured person will dictate which of the areas of legislation will apply when making an accident compensation claim.

More about accidents which happen in hotels, restaurant, shops and stores, and many other locations

Accidents at work:

Our lawyers form the most experienced personal injury law firm working for those injured at work. We have an unmatched history of pioneering cases for workplace victims and a vast pool of expertise and knowledge from over 85 years history. These claims are made at no cost to you.

More about accident at work compensation claims

Asbestos - related claims:

Clear Answers' specialist lawyers, Thompsons Solicitors have a long and honourable record of fighting for the rights of asbestos injury victims in the UK and overseas.

We are currently continuing the fight on behalf of mesothelioma victims and their families for their right to claim compensation. Mesothelioma is a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibres and is invariably fatal.

In 2002 the insurance industry argued that if a person was exposed to asbestos by more than one company during their working life, they should not be entitled to any compensation because they could not prove which of those companies had been responsible for the asbestos fibres which caused the disease. This attempt failed.

However, another test case was brought in 2006. When the House of Lords reviewed this claim again in May 2006, they agreed with the defendants and decided that if one or more of the companies responsible for the exposure to asbestos was no longer in business or was not insured then the mesothelioma sufferer could not claim the full amount of compensation.

There was a public outcry at the ruling, which meant that victims of the fatal asbestos cancer would receive only a fraction of their compensation, while the insurers would potentially save millions of pounds.

Thompsons campaigned with the trade unions and support groups representing victims of asbestos-related diseases. Together they lobbied government and highlighted the facts in an effort to remedy this injustice.

In June 2006, the campaign achieved a vital breakthrough when the Prime Minister announced that he would amend the Compensation Bill to overturn the decision of the House of Lords and restore the right to full compensation for mesothelioma sufferers and their families.

The BBC followed this campaign with interest and links to some of their stories can be found below:

Families fight asbestos appeal
Widows lose asbestos Lords ruling
Asbestos pay out fight continues
Blair to change asbestos ruling
New Law in asbestos cancer claims
Scotland to adopt asbestos ruling

If you or someone you know has contracted mesothelioma or any other asbestos related disease, contact Clear Answers for advice about making a claim for compensation.

We ensure that the service you receive will be of the highest professional standard, delivered by sympathetic experts and entirely cost free at all times for asbestos-related disease claims.

More about asbestos-related diseases

Dental negligence:

If something has gone wrong in your dental treatment or care and you have suffered injury, our dental negligence team can advise if you have a compensation claim and how to pursue that claim.

More about dental negligence compensation claims

Harmful substances:

If you have an injury from something in the environment, such as a chemical, we can offer you advice from lawyers who have established the leading recent case in the UK for those injured by exposure to chemicals and other hazards at work (see industrial diseases below). We can use this expertise in cases outside the workplace for those injured by toxins or other substances in the environment.

More about injuries caused by harmful substances

Industrial diseases:

We believe our lawyers have established the most important recent legal precedent for those harmed at work by substances which cause injury. In the case of Dugmore v Swansea NHS Trust (2003) we successfully argued that whenever a safer alternative to something that has caused injury is available at work, the employer must be liable for the damage done,even if they could not foresee the harm which was going to be done. In this case a nurse had suffered dermatitis from working with latex gloves.

This is a very important argument for those injured through exposure to substances at work and is a good example of our positive, ground-breaking approach.

We are also specialists on personal injury claims from long term exposure to harmful work, such as V.W.F. or hearing loss claims

More about industrial disease compensation claims

Medical negligence:

If something has gone wrong in your medical treatment or care and you have suffered injury, our medical negligence team can advise if you have a claim and how to pursue that compensation claim.

More about medical negligence compensation claims

Military claims:

we have specialist lawyers for any claims arising from the armed services. They can advise on recent important changes in this law, especially the important new rulings on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) cases.

More about injury claims against the MOD

Product liability:

If you have been injured by faulty goods, we can explain this complex area of law to you and, if you have a reasonable claim, give you access to experts to assist your personal injury claim.

More about accident compensation claims related to product liability

Public liability:

If you have had an injury outside the workplace which is the fault of another, for example tripping in the street, an accident on holiday or at school our teams which form the most experienced personal injury law firm in the country can guide you through the laws which apply and take on your claim at no cost to you.

More about accidents which involve public liability claims

Road traffic accident claims:

We have a specialist team to process your injury claim from a road accident to secure the maximum fair compensation in the quickest possible time. Our nationwide database of experts help us to achieve this.

More about accident compensation claims for road traffic accidents

Serious injuries and serious accidents

The causes of serious injuries are many and varied, and may include road traffic accidents, accidents at work, accidents in a manufacturing environment, a road accident related to your work, assaults in the workplace, slip, trip or fall accidents, and many other varied circumstances.

More about serious injuries and serious accidents

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