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Reputable Personal Injury Lawyer
Morning MSE forum, I’m looking for any recommendations for reputable and trustworthy Personal Injury Lawyers please.
In December I was hit by debris blown from a building site in Edinburg city centre in high winds, resulting in minor concussion. I raised this with the firm undertaking the building work, who in turn raised this with their insurers, but I’ve had no contact since.
A quick google search returns lots of results for dozens of Personal Injury Lawyers with good Trust Pilot result’s, but I’d be grateful for the experiences of forum members.
TIA.
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Experience of friends rather than my own, but Digby Brown are supposed to be good. Check out trustpilot.
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No shortage of Lawyer's in Edinburgh, especially in the West End. I would just get a directory out and start phoning around, they will have local knowledge.
Play with the expectation of winning not the fear of failure. S.Clarke1 -
"Directory" do these still exist?
Good old Yellow Pages a blast from the past.
Ask friends or neighbours for a decent ambulance chaser.
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Is it really worth the effort? Compensation for minor concussion is going to be minimal and you are going to have to prove negligence.
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Have you contacted the insurers?
End of the day any PIL is only going to charge for the work.
Did you attended hospital at the time of the injury?
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There must be a responsibility on the part of the builder to ensure everything is fairly secure, so it doesn’t blow away and injure people, so it’s going to be as much their showing they took sensible precautions as the op proving negligence.
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?2 -
Gather the medical evidence from hospital/GP, with evidence of losses/costs, e.g. unpaid time off work, travel for treatment, ongoing prescriptions, etc. and see if you can get a short, free consultation with a local law firm. Some provide such a service, and it will tell you whether there's a worthwhile claim to make.
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Not contacted the insurers, those details haven’t been shared with me. And I visited hospital a few days later when I returned home (I was in Edinburgh for a couple of days with work).
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You could try this link https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/
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If you haven't done so already, make detailed notes of dates, times, symptoms, etc. I can imagine the other party's insurers asking why you left it a few days before seeking medical treatment. Concussion symptoms can take a few days to properly show, and the more precise you can be with information, the more credible your claim, and it sets you apart from the compo-chasers who won't have the medical details needed to support a claim.
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