Injury claim, which Solicitors?

bery_451

For the road traffic accident I like to know which solicitors should I go for?


There's dodgy solicitors out there and like to avoid them by your advise.


I'm looking for approved solicitors, what sign should I look out for? For example a Gas worker should be Gas Safe/Corgi Registered.


Or is there website that shows reviews on solicitors? Looking for individual reviews on solicitors instead of a review of a company. Prefer solicitor with years of experience.


Please advise.

alansmith7

bery_451 wrote: »

For the road traffic accident I like to know which solicitors should I go for?


There's dodgy solicitors out there and like to avoid them by your advise.


I'm looking for approved solicitors, what sign should I look out for? For example a Gas worker should be Gas Safe/Corgi Registered.


Or is there website that shows reviews on solicitors? Looking for individual reviews on solicitors instead of a review of a company. Prefer solicitor with years of experience.


Please advise.

i have previously used gorman hamilton solicitors and they were good. The claim went through without any problems

http://www.gormanhamilton.co.uk/

InsideInsurance

Solicitors can now keep part of your winnings and so many will base their decision on what fee the solicitor will charge you if you win. If you have Legal Expenses on your own insurance then they will normally appoint a firm for you and there you will keep 100% of your winnings.

Outside of that its a question of if you want a massive firm like Shoosmiths or Irwin Mitchell who may have some beneficial features like call centres etc or if you want that local firm where you can go eyeball the person if you want, its more likely to be a solicitor dealing with it than a paralegal etc but when hes on holiday things pretty much stop, he works 9-5 mon-fri and thats it etc

You could look for a law society accreditation (see http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/accreditation/personal-injury/) but there are a number of other groups as well.

Only other thing is to really understand who you are dealing with. There are plenty of lead generation firms, accident management firms etc who will basically just sell on your details to a solicitor firm. Nothing inherently wrong with this but you are then not selecting the firm you are dealing with

bery_451

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Solicitors can now keep part of your winnings and so many will base their decision on what fee the solicitor will charge you if you win. If you have Legal Expenses on your own insurance then they will normally appoint a firm for you and there you will keep 100% of your winnings.

Outside of that its a question of if you want a massive firm like Shoosmiths or Irwin Mitchell who may have some beneficial features like call centres etc or if you want that local firm where you can go eyeball the person if you want, its more likely to be a solicitor dealing with it than a paralegal etc but when hes on holiday things pretty much stop, he works 9-5 mon-fri and thats it etc

You could look for a law society accreditation (see http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/accreditation/personal-injury/) but there are a number of other groups as well.

Only other thing is to really understand who you are dealing with. There are plenty of lead generation firms, accident management firms etc who will basically just sell on your details to a solicitor firm. Nothing inherently wrong with this but you are then not selecting the firm you are dealing with

If I have legal cover with my car insurance and if I make a claim on that legal cover then will I lose my no claims bonus?

InsideInsurance

bery_451 wrote: »

If I have legal cover with my car insurance and if I make a claim on that legal cover then will I lose my no claims bonus?

In the long term, not normally. I say normally as someone may be able to find a company that does something odd but I've never heard of anyone that does.

In the short term then there may be system constraints that require them to open a claim on your Motor policy to deal with the claim under the LE cover. Whilst the claim is open it may have a temporary effect on the NCD but it would have to be a fairly duff system for them not to be able to resolve this. Even on the green screen system created in the 80s that I was still using in my claims days allowed us to resolve this.

Of cause if they are already dealing with the vehicle damage on your own policy then the above is irrelevant as its all handled under that one claim.

Spicy_McHaggis

bery_451 wrote: »

If I have legal cover with my car insurance and if I make a claim on that legal cover then will I lose my no claims bonus?

It was your fault so who are you claiming off?

bery_451

InsideInsurance wrote: »

In the long term, not normally. I say normally as someone may be able to find a company that does something odd but I've never heard of anyone that does.

In the short term then there may be system constraints that require them to open a claim on your Motor policy to deal with the claim under the LE cover. Whilst the claim is open it may have a temporary effect on the NCD but it would have to be a fairly duff system for them not to be able to resolve this. Even on the green screen system created in the 80s that I was still using in my claims days allowed us to resolve this.

Of cause if they are already dealing with the vehicle damage on your own policy then the above is irrelevant as its all handled under that one claim.

So you cannot confirm whether it will affect my no claims bonus if I claim on my legal cover?

InsideInsurance

bery_451 wrote: »

So you cannot confirm whether it will affect my no claims bonus if I claim on my legal cover?

No because I dont have a copy of your policy in front of me and there are no universal rules of NCD.

99% of NCD rules are the same across insurers but I wont say without doubt this is the case because of that remaining 1% (though I am unaware of any insurer who'd effect your NCD in the long term for a LE cover claim)

Parking_Trouble

HH have the jolliest adverts and sound really fun. There are actually proud of these ads.

https://hampsonhughes.com/blog/new-hampson-hughes-solicitors-tv-advert

bery_451

I think I have legal cover with my car insurance. I think my car insurance use carpenters solicitors for legal cover.


Are carpenters solicitors good?


Usually are car insurance legal cover customer services is as good or better than a independent firm of no win no fee solicitors? You sure I will get 100% compensation with legal cover and there's isn't any no win no fee with legal cover?


Can I use legal cover extension on my car insurance to pursue damages to my car if I believe its the other drivers fault as I only have 3rd party, fire and theft cover.

OnanTheBarbarian

Hampson Hughes are regularly getting a telling off from their adverts.

Carpenters, hmmmm http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?312626-Article-Carpenters-Solicitors-Birkenhead

The problems with the firms that insurers legal panels use is that they are what we call "factory firms". They run massive volumes of cases and if you have a case that isn't a straight forward hit in rear with no liability dispute, you can really suffer as the poor souls who work there are burdened with massive caseloads, I mean like 600+ claims each. You just can't do a decent job for the client.

The insurers are bleeding such a massive bung out of the law firms that all they can rely on is shifting the volume as quickly as possible with as little attention to the claims as possible.