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Top 10 Tips for Road Traffic Accident Personal Injury Law |
If You Have Suffered a motor
accident, whiplash
injury, accident
at work, medical
negligence, faulty
goods, criminal
injury, slip
or trip, industrial
injury, accident
in a public place or would just like some advice, please don't hesitate to
give us a call on 08000 71 22 71 for any personal
injury, medical negligence, road traffic accident, no win no fee accident
claims
The personal injury law process is not a very simple one. In case of a personal
injury caused due to a road traffic accident, the process becomes all the more
complicated.
However, if you have a competent solicitor working on your side,
you do not need to worry on the detail front. The following outlined procedure
will help you understand the Road Traffic Accident Personal Injury Law Process.
1. Report to police and ICBC: Reporting the road traffic accident to the police
is of paramount importance and should be done at the earliest. The police will
issue you with a file number as reference that could be quoted as a reference
for future correspondence. In UK, you would need to report the accident to ICBC
through a telephone. ICBC will also issue a file number and sets up an
appointment for you to see an adjuster.
2. Meeting the solicitor and an ICBC claims adjuster: A consultation with the
solicitor is recommended before you meet the adjuster appointed by ICBC. This
will go a long way in protecting your interests. The best scenario would be to
make your solicitor accompany you to meet the ICBC claims adjuster, so that all
information you give out to the adjuster is accurate and your solicitor has the
first hand information is building your case at a later date.
3. Negotiations with ICBC: Negotiations can begin anytime after the meeting with
the adjuster. The negotiations can go on until you go to court or the case is
settled. More than 90% of the ICBC cases are settled before they come to trial.
To get the most out of them negotiations normally continue up to the date of the
trial.
4. Filing a lawsuit: After a few meetings with your solicitor, the solicitor
will review the circumstances and the evidence that keep you out of blame's way.
The solicitor would then carry on to reviewing the evidence of damages to your
claim by interviewing witnesses for assessing liability.
The solicitor then takes a call on whether to file a lawsuit or not and if
necessary, will assess the timing of the lawsuit. The timing would depend on the
negotiation level with ICBC, your personal injury symptoms and the size and
complex nature of he claim itself.
5. Trial date: Trial date should be set as early as possible, but it is
advisable to leave it to the solicitor to do as he/she feels best.
6. Documentation and Pre-trial examinations: After the lapse of 6-12 months from
the beginning of a lawsuit, each party to the accident is examined by the
lawyers of the other side before trial. This is done to try and gather evidence
of liability on your part, so that they could deny part or all of the coverage.
In a normal procedure, documents are exchanged that include evidence pertaining
to wage loss and other opportunities which may have been lost due to the
accident.
7. Trial: If the negotiations fail before trial, going to court becomes
necessary. The court hears out the evidence for fault finding, your losses due
to the accident and a decision is made by the judge or jury to find the fault
and to ascertain the amount of damages suffered.
8. Appeals: If the decision of the court is not acceptable to any of the parties
involved, an appeal can be made to the B.C. Court of Appeal. The decision is
reviewed, based upon the evidence and facts. A decision is taken to uphold the
previous decision or overturn it accordingly.
If You Have Suffered a motor accident, whiplash injury, accident at work, medical negligence, faulty goods, criminal injury, slip or trip, industrial injury, accident in a public place or
would just like some advice, please don't hesitate to give us a call on 08000 71 22 71 for any personal injury, medical negligence, road traffic accident, no win no fee accident claims |
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