Accident Claims

With 18 years' experience, National Accident Helpline is the UK's leading name in accident claims

Thinking of making an accident claim due to an injury that wasn't your fault? If so, you may be entitled to compensation, and the National Accident Helpline™ are here to guide you through the accident claims process. In the past 18 years, we’ve helped tens of thousands of people across the UK make compensation claims for their personal injuries - compensation they deserved.

Accidents can happen at any time. Many accidents occur on the road, involving cars or motorcycles, and many also occur in public places, as a result of inadequate training or safety equipment.
Accidents in retail premises such as slips and trips in supermarkets are also common, as are medical negligence cases. Accident claims can be made for most non-fault accidents and compensation is rewarded depending on the claimant's injuries (both physical and psychological) and financial losses caused as a result of the injury.

Why do people make accident claims?

Victims of more serious accidents regularly need time off work to recover from their personal injury, leading to financial problems such as struggling to keep up with mortgage repayments. In fact, many people return to work too early due to these problems, often making their injury worse. That is why it is important that injured parties who make accident claims are awarded the compensation they deserve - to give them the time needed to make a full recovery.

Accident claims should be successful if it can be shown that someone has been at fault in some way - that they have failed in a duty or not taken reasonable care - and that this fault or failure caused (or partly caused) the accident. This may be quite obvious in some cases, but in others it can be quite complicated.

An example of a responsible party neglecting their duty of care would be a supermarket employee mopping a spillage on the floor but not displaying wet floor signs, resulting in a customer slipping and injuring themselves in the process. In this example, the customer would be entitled to look into making accident claims as their injury could have been prevented by the supermarket.

Accident claims for work injuries 

Accidents don't always happen in public places such as supermarkets. Sometimes accidents can happen in a person's workplace, whether its an office, factory, warehouse or construction site. These accident claims are usually the result of inadequate health and safety precautions. By law, employers are required to safeguard employees from accidents and if they have failed in their duty of care, an employee injured in an accident is entitled to claim compensation for their injuries.
 
Accident claims for work related injuries can be daunting for some people, because they involve claiming against an employer. However, this should not deter the victim of an accident from seeking the justice they deserve, particularly if doing so is going to improve future safety conditions in their workplace. It is illegal for an employee to be dismissed for making accident claims, and any compensation paid will usually be done so by the employers' insurance company and not the individuals themselves.

Accident claims with National Accident Helpline™

At the National Accident Helpline™, we work with specialist personal injury lawyers across the UK so you can be confident that, should you choose to make an accident claim, you will be looked after by specialist professionals who will talk you through all aspects of making an accident claim.

Information about some of the more common types of accident claims are contained within the following sections:

• Accidents at work
• Car accident claims
• Holiday accidents abroad
• Slips, trips and falling accidents