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Should I accept first offer for compensation?

maxliam1
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Hi,
Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place but I would welcome any advice.
I sustained an injury over a year ago whilst shopping in a major supermarket. I suffered an injury to my leg -nothing serious but enough to cause me a lot of discomfort and affect my life for 2-3 weeks. THe supermarket admitted liability and accepted that their unsafe working practices had led to my injury
I didn't wan't to go down the road of hiring a claims company but did feel that I was due some compensation. I contacted the head office directly and 1 year later they have offered me £750
I kind of feel that this isn't enough based on the fact that it was 100% theif fault and I have to wait a year!
Should I accept first offer and if I reject it, could I end up losing the initial offer?
Any advice would be gratefully recieved
Thanks
Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place but I would welcome any advice.
I sustained an injury over a year ago whilst shopping in a major supermarket. I suffered an injury to my leg -nothing serious but enough to cause me a lot of discomfort and affect my life for 2-3 weeks. THe supermarket admitted liability and accepted that their unsafe working practices had led to my injury
I didn't wan't to go down the road of hiring a claims company but did feel that I was due some compensation. I contacted the head office directly and 1 year later they have offered me £750
I kind of feel that this isn't enough based on the fact that it was 100% theif fault and I have to wait a year!
Should I accept first offer and if I reject it, could I end up losing the initial offer?
Any advice would be gratefully recieved
Thanks
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The period of symptoms is the relevant factor when valuing the claim. A 2-3 week period of discomfort would be worth about £1k max anyway.
If they won't budge then i would accept the offer.0 -
If they have offered £750 then they will not withdraw the offer unless they can prove that it was a fraudelent claim eg you go on Facebook gloating how you screwed £xx from a supermarket.
Did you actually break any bones - were you off work (if so did you get paid by your employer?) those 2-3 weeks was there anything that you regularly do that you couldn't (keep the reply clean please LOL).
I agree £1k max would seem a fair offer.
Why not try banking the cheque and say you accept it as PART settlement and ask for another £250? They can only say no.0 -
Itemise your losses for the forum.
Time, car parks at hospitals etc.
Itemise your employer's losses in sick pay.
Describe your injury.
On the face of it, £750 plus loss of earnings (or sick pay repayable to employer) plus costs incurred in managing the injury seems ok.
But why on earth are you asking a forum when a solicitor could probably have got you more and faster?0 -
BertTheRaccoon wrote: »A 2-3 week period of discomfort would be worth about £1k max anyway.
If they won't budge then i would accept the offer.opinions4u wrote:But why on earth are you asking a forum when a solicitor could probably have got you more and faster?"MIND IF I USE YOUR PHONE? IF WORD GETS OUT THATI'M MISSING FIVE HUNDRED GIRLS WILL KILL THEMSELVES."0 -
Crazy_Jamie wrote: »A solicitor would likely not be too keen to take this case due to it being somewhat unlikely that they would recover their legal costs, and clearly the OP would be hesitant to incur legal costs when it is not necessary. In fact as soon as a solicitor does become involved you can be sure that the insurer will not go as high as £1,000 and risk liability for legal costs as well.0
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opinions4u wrote: »Why would the insurer have no liability for legal costs?"MIND IF I USE YOUR PHONE? IF WORD GETS OUT THATI'M MISSING FIVE HUNDRED GIRLS WILL KILL THEMSELVES."0
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