The financial outcome of your no win, no fee claim
There are many stories of people being left with huge bills or minimal compensation following personal injury claims with unscrupulous firms. However, many of these cases could have been avoided if the people involved had understood the financial implications for all the possible outcomes of their claim at the outset.
We believe in providing an open, clear service that ensures peace of mind for our customers and promotes understanding of the law surrounding your personal injury claim. For this reason, below we outline what a no win, no fee agreement will mean for you if your claim is successful as well as what it will mean for you if it is unsuccessful.
An unsuccessful no win, no fee claim
When our solicitors take on your personal injury case, you will be asked to sign a no win, no fee agreement (sometimes referred to by solicitors as a Conditional Fee Agreement). No win, no fee means exactly what it says; you will not have to pay the personal injury solicitor's fees if the case is not won. Read more about what no win, no fee is.
In the process of gathering evidence for your case, costs will naturally be incurred. These are known as disbursements and can include things such as medical reports, expert witnesses, and accident reports. Whilst some firms of personal injury solicitors will ask you to pay upfront for disbursements, you will not find this with YouClaim. Instead, our solicitors will fund the costs of these for you. Read more about disbursements.
When your case is accepted by our solicitors, they may recommend that After the Event (ATE) insurance is taken out on your behalf. This will protect you from your opponent's legal fees, disbursements and other costs as well as the disbursements that are incurred by your solicitor while pursuing the case. Once again, your appointed personal injury solicitor will pay for this for you and it will not cost you a penny.
In short, if your claim is not successful, you will not have to pay any money either to us or to your opponent.
A successful no win, no fee claim
If your claim is successful, as many of the cases that our solicitors handle are, all disbursements and fees that have been incurred during the process of claiming will be paid by your opponent or their insurer.
In certain cases, the law allows personal injury solicitors to charge a success fee to cover the risk of not getting their fees paid under the no win, no fee scheme. Although some firms may pass this fee on to you, our solicitors will recover it from your opponent so you will not have to pay a penny towards it.
You will not be responsible for any payments to us or anyone else throughout your successful personal injury claim and you will keep every penny of the compensation that is awarded to you.
Getting compensation
If you have been injured through no fault of your own, we may be able to help you pursue a compensation claim. We help thousands of people in the UK to get money following accidents in a wide range of circumstances, including car accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and medical negligence.
Our customers do not have to pay anything, no matter what the outcome of their claim, so you can take your legal action with confidence and without having to worry about receiving a bill to pay.
To discover more about making a personal injury claim with us, you could chat to one of our expert claim advisors via e-chat. To make a no win, no fee claim today please telephone 0800 10 757 95 or fill in an online claim form and we will call you back.
