Is demanding a personal injury claim, such as a work accident claim, easy or hard?

If you listen to law group advertisers, then the answer is “Yes, incredibly so.” If, however, you listen to bitter claimants, then the answer is “No, it’s impossible.” The right answer, and one which I can validate with my own experience is somewhere in between these two extremes.

I was involved in a car crash a few months ago while driving out of London one night. Some teenagers, who later turned out to be drunk drivers, lost control of their green van and plummeted it straight at the back of my SUV. Although I received no injury worse than a minor whiplash, I still got in touch with a car accident lawyer and demanded compensation. I was not in want of money for medication or anything. I just wanted to teach these immature and irresponsible teenagers some lesson.

My claim did not last for a long while at all. In fact, after only a few weeks, my lawyer was able to persuade those teenagers to compensate me immediately because they could be made to pay me more if ever the case gets blown into a full-court dispute. Their parents paid off my claim, but I’m sure those kids won’t be driving anytime soon.

What I discovered after claiming compensation, nevertheless, was that it can be a quick and easy process, provided that you are really in the right. My lawyer was practically smacking his lips when I told him the details of my case. I assume it was because he knew that what was in front of him was easy pickings. Furthermore, lawyers are busy people too. It is not in their interest to prolong a case, whether it be a whiplash injury case like mine or a work accident claim like yours, because the more time they spend languishing in one case, then the more time they are wasting in waiving the chance to embrace a new case with its generous acceptance fee. I can only shrug when people consistently berate lawyers for their idleness or ineptitude. It is not really up to them whether or not their cases get finished quickly or not. It is up to the facts of the case itself.

That stereotypes are usually wrong, many people can prove easily by themselves. If they can think of any kind of stereotype in mind and compare what it says about certain people and oppose to that image the actual attitude or appearance of those people in real life, then they will see that not only has their mental conception been wrong all along, but also that it is unfair and often crude. This idea is what impressed me the most when I demanded a workplace injury claim last week.

For reasons I will not belabor on here, my employer hired a bungler to work. It would not have mattered so much if the nature of our job was merely a desk one or a classroom based one. It is, however, a dangerous one, for we work at a construction site. My job specifically is to oversee the logistics of the materials we use in building, such as whether or not the cement is mixed properly and on time and whether or not the equipment we are using can still bear the brunt of the tasks we use them for. Now, this bungler that my employer hired was in charge of transferring different construction materials and, naturally enough, was placed under my authority. The problem began when I ordered him to carry some sacks of gravel to the other side of the room. Assuming that he already knew how to convey heavy materials properly, and because my employer did not inform me that this man was as yet untrained to do such a job, I did not pay him much attention. I should have known better, for he lifted the sack carelessly and ended up releasing all of its contents down crashing on me.

Since I incurred serious bruises and a sprained ankle from this horrible accident, I immediately called up a workplace injury claim lawyer and filed a case. And in doing so, a realization dawned upon me. My lawyer, and as I further on came to know, other lawyers too, are actually nice. They are not at all what I expected them to be. The stereotype that dominated my mind, and I think the public mind as well, was that lawyers were avaricious, deceitful egoists. Nothing could be more wrong, or at least according to my experience. They are actually childlike and sincere people who can commiserate with the pain and suffering that their clients feel. All in all, my claim ended well because my employer decided to settle it out of court. I am all right now, and perhaps what expedited my recovery the most was that the bungler who injured me was fired the day after his injurious, stupid mistake.