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If you or a member of your family have suffered severe injury whilst working, studying, travelling or on holiday abroad, you may be entitled to claim compensation.
Our personal injury team secure compensation for clients who have experienced life-changing accidents in foreign countries. We help them secure the treatment and rehabilitation that they need to make the best possible recovery and rebuild their lives after severe physical and psychological injury.
Claims for severe injury involving accidents abroad are complex and must be handled by specialist solicitors. Our experienced lawyers can advise you how, when and where to make a claim and ensure you recover the compensation you deserve.
Speak to our personal injury solicitors
It costs nothing to talk to us to find out about making a personal injury claim for yourself or a member of your family. You can contact us by telephone or by email for free, confidential advice from a specialist personal injury solicitor. In serious injury cases, we often visit our clients in the hospital or at their home if they are unable to get to our offices.
We will ask you to tell us briefly about the accident and injury. We will advise you about any time limits that apply and whether we can help you make a claim. Your solicitor will discuss with you how your claim will be funded and advise, fully and clearly, how that works and what it will mean for you. We offer a range of funding options, but most of our clients’ claims are handled on a ‘no win no fee’ basis.
We will put your claim to the defendant individual or organisation whose negligence caused your injury and we will handle all communication on your behalf. The defendant’s insurers will usually handle the claim on the defendant’s behalf and will be responsible for paying any compensation. Once we are in contact with the defendant’s insurers, we can begin to secure the necessary rehabilitation and specialist support to meet the injured person’s immediate needs whilst we proceed with the claim.
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Our head injury lawyers have secured compensation settlements for a man who suffered a serious head injury in a road traffic accident (RTA) in France. Under French law, his wife and children were also entitled to be compensated as a result of the impact on the family, even though they were not involved in the accident.
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Kim and team at Boyes Turner were a patient and stabilising force though a multi-year case. This case was littered with trauma and upset from the beginning, and exacerbated by mis truths and rewriting of the demonstrable facts from the opposition. Kim guided me carefully through the process and helped to neutralise the negativity coming from the opposition throughout.
I approached Claire Roantree of Boyes Turner in regards to making a claim about a workplace burns injury. It was something that had scarred me physically and mentally and taken a huge toll on the lives of me and my family. Claire wasted no time in finding out what happened and made sure I was treated by known experts and quickly finding an answer to my burns scarring and how I could be treated to help manage my pain. Claire also helped me by appointing a psychiatrist to understand my situation and help me cope with post traumatic stress disorder. As well as taking as much stress of the claim away, she was thorough in every situation, making sure I had the best possible claim, and handled it all expertly, I am so very grateful to her and her team. They have helped guide my life back into a positive direction and I can't thank her enough!
Kim at Boyes Turner was recommended to me after I had received ineffective service from another company. From the outset, Kim has been professional, reassuring and supportive. I have always had faith in her ability to get the best outcome, not only financially, but also in helping my rehabilitation from a traumatic brain injury. She is friendly and empathetic, with unquestionable professional integrity. She was quick to grasp the important issues in my case, was meticulous in her investigating the details and analysing them, realistic in what the outcomes were likely to be and achieved a successful outcome. I would not hesitate in recommending her and Boyes Turner.
Claire is exceptionally knowledgeable in the personal injury legal domain, especially in the specific area of my injury. From our very first conversation, she was clear in explaining the potential different routes that the process could take and provided me with expectations of what I could expect along the journey. She ensured that all bases were covered, organising meetings, discussions and necessary specialist appointments, in order to bring together the case and take it forward. Claire was then able to use her extensive pool of contacts, to appoint an "area leading" barrister, to represent me. Overall, I was very pleased with appointing Claire and Boyes Turner to act as my solicitor for the legal claim that I pursued. Thank you for all of your support.
Kim handled my personal injury claim after a car accident with immeasurable expertise and compassion. Boyes Turner arranged every part of my private rehabilitation, which greatly improved the speed and quality of my recovery. Each stage of the litigation process was dealt with efficiently and succinctly. This was then always explained without using unclear legal jargon. On both health and financial levels, I would be in a far worse position without Kim’s invaluable input. I cannot recommend this firm enough.
When someone is injured in an accident which was caused by the negligence of an individual or organisation, they may be able to claim compensation, even for accidents that occurred whilst they were visiting a foreign country.
Sudden, severe injury is always life-changing, but when it is caused by an accident abroad, getting help becomes even more challenging. In the same way, differences in language, time limits and the laws of different countries can all add to the complexity of the claims process.
The country (or US state) where the accident took place can make a difference to:
Compensation claims arising from foreign accidents which caused severe and catastrophic injury to the brain or spinal cord, or major trauma, such as amputation, must be handled by specialist solicitors. We are experienced in securing rehabilitation and recovering high value compensation settlements for clients who have suffered severe injury whilst working, studying, travelling or on holiday abroad.
If you or someone in your family has suffered severe or catastrophic injury in an accident abroad, we recommend that you contact us as soon as possible to speak to one of our solicitors, who will be able to advise you whether you can claim compensation.
Depending on where and how the accident took place, we can help injured clients recover compensation after:
We specialise in helping people who have suffered catastrophic or severe injury maximise their recovery and rebuild their lives, through timely and appropriate rehabilitation and compensation.
Our clients have usually suffered one or more of the following:
We also help families and groups of people with claims arising from situations where more than one person was injured in the same accident.
Our experienced personal injury solicitors investigate the circumstances of each client’s accident to ensure that the claim is made against the correct defendant(s) and their insurers. The reason for being abroad (such as, for work or on holiday), the country where the accident took place and the type of accident can all make a difference to how, where, and against whom the claim should be made.
Compensation claims for accidents and injuries abroad may be made against:
The injured person’s right to claim compensation for negligently caused injuries is not affected by whether or not they had their own travel insurance at the time of their injury.
Many foreign legal systems require the injury compensation claim to be made in the country where the accident took place, but in some situations the claim can be made in the UK. For example, if the negligent driver in a vehicle collision was also based in the UK, or the claim is against a UK-based employer for an accident that happened whilst the employee was working abroad, the claim may be made against them here.
If the injury was caused by unsafe facilities on a package holiday which was booked through a UK-based tour operator, the Package Travel Regulations 1992 allow the injured person to make a claim for compensation against the tour operator in the UK.
Where the claim must be made in the country where the accident took place, the rules and procedures may be different, but we work alongside our international agents to handle the claim. It is usually not necessary for our client to attend the foreign court.
Time limits for making claims for injury compensation can vary from country to country and depending on the type of claim. We advise anyone who has been seriously injured abroad to contact us as soon as possible after the accident so that we can preserve their entitlement to make a claim. In cases involving serious injury, the sooner we are involved, the sooner we can secure rehabilitation and financial help for our client and their family.
In some countries, a claim will only be considered if the claim has been reported to the police, the travel company or organisation responsible for the accident, and if the injured person has sought medical help from a doctor or if a statement of facts has been completed setting out how the accident occurred.
An injured person’s compensation depends on the severity of their injury, the impact that injury has on their life and their ongoing needs. In claims relating to accidents abroad, the amount and type of compensation which can be claimed depends on the law of the country which governs the claim. Where the law governing our client’s accident gives our client a choice as to where to pursue their claim, we advise our client on the best approach for their claim.
As with all catastrophic and serious injury claims, the injured person’s access to rehabilitation and full compensation for their injuries also depends on the skill and experience of their lawyer.
We have helped severely injured clients claim compensation for:
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