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If you have been seriously injured in a road traffic accident (RTA) or collision, you may be entitled to compensation for your injury and its financial consequences.
Our personal injury solicitors help individuals and their families recover, rehabilitate and rebuild their lives after road accidents have caused devastating injury. We specialise in maximum severity compensation claims for life-changing injury and severe disability, and for clients with extensive needs for rehabilitation and ongoing care. We secure early, funded rehabilitation to optimise our clients’ recovery with timely, coordinated treatment, whilst ensuring that our clients receive maximum compensation to restore financial security and provide for adapted housing, vehicles, equipment, therapies, and care.
We achieve outstanding settlements in highly complex, difficult or sensitive cases, such as those involving teenagers or allegations of contributory negligence. We have supported countless families through the challenges and suffering caused by devastating road accidents. We are committed to making a difference. Every client’s claim is handled with care by an experienced solicitor.
Speak to our personal injury solicitors
It costs nothing to talk to us to find out about making an RTA 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 your time limits 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.
Senior Partner, Personal Injury
Following a road traffic accident where Jessica suffered a traumatic brain injury and stroke, she required extensive rehabilitation and care. Our expert personal injury claims lawyers helped recover initial costs to assist in paying for her recovery and ultimately secured a settlement. Jessica was able to return to work following her rehabilitation and purchased a property with some of the funds we secured for her.
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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.
Almost 5 years ago my son suffered a life changing brain injury accident. A new life for everyone, so many unknowns so many difficult decisions. I met Claire and the team shortly after the accident. So many questions answered but more than that, amazing lovely people. Claire has been guiding me and the family throughout this ordeal with such compassion, there every time I needed her we couldn’t of asked for a nicer person. I have met many others within Boyes Turner and all have been genuine lovely people, I’m now working with Ruth and Lindsay from the court of protection. Again, I can't say enough about them amazing lovely people. They truly do want the best for my son and they did and continue to do so.
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 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.
Excellent service from Claire and her team at all times. We were kept up to date at each stage of our claim. The outcome was much better than we expected and we would not hesitate to recommend Boyes Turner to family and friends.
If you have been seriously injured in a road accident as a result of somebody else’s negligence, we can help you claim compensation.
We recover compensation in road accident claims for severely injured:
We also recover compensation for severely injured clients in complex claims, where:
You can make a personal injury claim for:
Road accidents can occur during any situation or activity which involves vehicles or road travel from place to place. RTA collisions lead to compensation claims when they are caused by the negligence of one or more individuals or organisations and result in someone suffering a serious injury.
Road accident injury claims most commonly arise from:
Road accidents which cause severe injury leading to compensation claims are often the result of one or more of the following driver errors:
Claims can also be made against the council, highway authority or their contractors for road accident injuries caused by their negligent failure to maintain safe roads, or correctly warn or alert drivers to ramps, skips, road works and other hazards on the road.
Our personal injury lawyers are specialists in catastrophic and severe injury compensation claims for clients who have suffered life-changing injury and permanent disability. We focus on maximising their recovery through funded rehabilitation, whilst supporting them through the changes and adjustments to their lives and ensuring they receive their full entitlement to compensation to meet their lifelong needs.
Our clients have usually suffered one or more of the following:
The amount of compensation that each of our clients receives depends on their injury and disability and its impact on their life. We ensure that each client’s claim is carefully calculated to meet their needs arising from their disability and replace their financial losses. In cases involving severe injury and disability, the value of the claim will reflect the injured person’s need for rehabilitation, specialist equipment, adapted accommodation, treatment and care for the rest of their life. Negotiated settlements may also be adjusted for ‘litigation risks’, such as the injured person’s own contributory negligence.
Our personal injury solicitors specialise in personal injury claims for people who have suffered severe, life-changing injury and disability. Our clients’ claims often include compensation for:
In road accident claims arising from fatal injury, we help the deceased’s dependent family claim compensation for their loss of the deceased’s income or ‘services’ (childcare, housework, driving, DIY etc), as well as funeral costs and a fixed, statutory bereavement award.
The law and the insurance industry recognise that car accidents can cause life-changing injuries, and that those who are injured in accidents caused by negligent drivers are entitled to compensation. The law requires drivers to have motor insurance to ensure that anyone who is injured as a result of a driver’s negligence can be compensated for their injuries. The insurance industry also provides an alternative way of claiming compensation for injured victims of uninsured or untraced drivers, through the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB).
If someone is seriously injured in a road accident which was caused by a driver who was not insured to drive the car or is untraced after a hit-and-run accident, we can help the injured person or their family claim compensation from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB).
Read more about how we help clients who have been injured in road accidents caused by uninsured or hit-and-run drivers.
Road traffic accidents (RTAs) and resulting injuries can have more than one cause. When the injured person’s own behaviour was partly to blame for their injuries in an accident that was caused by someone else’s negligent actions, this is known as contributory negligence. Where the injured person’s contributory negligence increased their risk of harm from an accident or made their injuries worse, their compensation may be reduced in proportion to their own contribution to their injury.
Our personal injury solicitors are experts at achieving outstanding settlements for severely injured clients in complex cases involving contributory negligence. We fight insurers’ attempts to deny claims or unfairly reduce them where we believe our client deserves full or partial compensation.
Examples of road accident claims involving contributory negligence in which we succeeded in recovering compensation for our injured client include:
Read more about how we help injured clients in RTA claims involving contributory negligence.
We understand the challenges faced by families after a road accident causes life-changing injury. We frequently act for families in claims involving children or teenagers who have been injured in accidents whilst being driven by family members or friends, or accidents in which multiple family members or friends were injured, or where the negligent driver who caused their passengers’ injuries lost their own life in the accident.
The thought of making a claim in these circumstances can seem overwhelming, but our clients discover that the extensive needs of the severely injured person can best be met by compensation. Our experienced solicitors have supported injured clients and their families through difficult claims in sensitive circumstances, securing the rehabilitation that is vital to ensure their best chance of recovery, and the necessary compensation to help them manage their disability. When deciding to make a claim, many clients find it helpful to remember that:
If you have been seriously injured in a road accident whilst working or on holiday abroad, you may be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries.
Our personal injury solicitors have secured compensation for many clients who have experienced life-changing accidents in foreign countries.
Compensation claims for severe injury arising from 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.
Read more about how we help clients secure compensation for injuries suffered in accidents abroad.
If someone is injured in a car accident that was caused by another driver, the negligent driver’s insurers will be responsible for paying any compensation settlement arising from a claim.
If the driver who caused the accident was uninsured, or is untraced after a hit-and-run accident, we can help the injured person claim compensation for their injuries from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB).
Compensation for serious injury in road accidents caused by unsafe roads can also be claimed from:
In each client’s case, we investigate the accident and its cause based on evidence from our client, witnesses, our experts and the police, and advise our client on the correct defendant(s) to direct their claim towards, to ensure that they will succeed with their claim.
In most personal injury claims relating to injuries which occurred in England or Wales, court proceedings must be issued (formally started) within three years of the date of the injury.
There are some exceptions to the three-year limitation deadline.
Failing to issue personal injury proceedings within the limitation deadline can have serious consequences and may result in the injured person losing their right to make a compensation claim. We recommend that you contact us for free advice as soon as possible after your injury to enable our personal injury claims solicitors to protect your entitlement to compensation and assist in your rehabilitation and recovery.
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