Spinal injury compensation
Paraplegia-spinal injury compensation
Paraplegia In simple terms, paraplegia means below waist level paralysis. In life terms everything is different. I handled a case for a young soldier, who I will call John. He was off for the weekend and got a lift in the back of a friend's car. The driver had to take...
Spinal injury Compensation
Contributory negligence can reduce compensation significantly when the injury is serious I have pointed to the effect of a finding of contributory negligence elsewhere. The effect is felt most in severe injury cases, because the needs of the injured person are so...
Protect your compensation
Receiving interim or final compensation payment?
You may need a trust to protect benefits and local authority care.
Recent Articles
Is a personal injury trust taxed?
This information is written for those with bare trusts which hold personal injurycompensation. There are other types of trust for personal injury compensation,which are taxed differently. This solicitor practice only writes bare trusts, so wewill stick to those...
Is there a time limit for setting up a personal injury compensation trust?
No, is the answer, but if you are claiming benefits, your benefits will be reduced until you set up a trust. This question is usually asked by those who have received compensation and were not claiming benefits at that time. Some benefit claimants receive...