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Making A Bus Accident Compensation Claim
If you have been injured in a bus or coach accident through no fault of your own you could be eligible to make a bus accident claim for compensation.
Making A Bus Accident Compensation Claim
If you are injured in a bus accident, irrespective of the reason, to strengthen your case and increase your chances of getting the compensation that is due to you, it is important to have strong evidence. This can include:
- The bus drivers details, bus number and route and date and time of the accident;
- Report the bus accident with the police;
- Report the bus accident to the bus company involved;
- Keep a record of the events as they unfolded. Do this in the early days after the accident so possibly important details aren’t forgotten;
- Get contact details of any other bus passengers or bystanders so they can be called upon as witnesses at a later date;
- Get vehicle details of any other vehicles involved;
- Take photographs of the scene and any visible injuries.
Remember, the more details you can gather, the more information your personal injury solicitor can use to build a strong bus accident compensation claim on your behalf.
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bus accident injury compensation claims
The public transport system in the UK has a high level of health and safety standards. The government has also implemented ample measures to ensure that this remains to be the case for some time to come. While bus accidents are rare, they do happen and the legal system has laid out provisions for anyone who is injured in any accident involving a bus or coach while travelling in the UK.
It is important to understand that the law does not restrict this entitlement only to those passengers travelling in the bus or coach at the time of the accident. To file a bus accident compensation claim, you do not necessarily have to be inside the bus. Various scenarios that may warrant a bus accident compensation claim include:
- The bus you are riding is involved in an accident and crashes;
- A bus hits you while you are waiting at the bus stop or bus shelter;
- A bus collides with the vehicle you are driving and it wasn’t your fault;
- You get thrown off your seat or bump your head on the seat in front of you because of the driver’s rash driving;
- You get injured while getting on or getting off the bus because the driver was in a hurry to get moving or the driver shuts the door before you were completely clear of the doorway.
Whatever the reason, one thing is clear – if you were injured due to no fault of yours, it is very likely you will have sufficient grounds for compensation for any bus injury that you sustain under any of the above circumstances.
In theory, claiming compensation in a bus injury claim should be pretty simple and straightforward. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. As anyone who has tried to file a bus accident claim can tell you, filing a claim for a bus accident is fraught with challenges. This is because there are so many variables that could be at play. You could have bumped your head against the seat not because of rash driving but because of bad road conditions that made the bump unavoidable. Or maybe you were left with whiplash after the bus crashed trying to avoid a pedestrian who walked out in front of them.
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Nadia HussainFrequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Who will pay the compensation?
It is very rare for the employer concerned to actually shoulder the payment of industrial disease compensation. In the vast majority of cases compensation comes from your employer's "Employers Liability Insurance". It is a legal requirement for all UK employers to have a policy of this type.
Furthermore, in the event that you are still employed by the defendant there are a number of legal safeguards in place to protect you from unfair dismissal or discrimination made on the basis of your claim.
Can I claim compensation following work in Scotland, if I now live outside of Scotland?
Yes. Many of our claimants now live abroad in locations such as France, South Africa and Australia. If you worked in Scotland before you moved overseas, you can bring a claim for compensation in the usual way.
If a family member has died as a result of an industrial disease, can we make a claim?
It is possible to claim compensation on behalf of a deceased family member. However, the claim must be brought within three years of the date of death. Similarly, if the claimant dies during the course of the case, the family can continue with the claim on his or her behalf.
However, if your family member has an industrial disease and later dies from an unrelated incident, you would have three years to claim in respect of the work related illness from the date they knew or ought to have known they were suffering from the condition, not from the date of the unrelated death.
What are the time limits for industrial disease claims?
You can make a claim up to three years from the date the you knew or ought to have known that you were suffering from a work-related illness, or three years from the date of last exposure to any substance or process which has caused the condition (whichever is the later date).
Given that many industrial diseases take a long time to develop, it may be that you need to make a claim decades after the firm responsible for your illness has ceased to trade. But, as long as it is within three years of diagnosis of an industrial disease, it may still be possible to claim compensation when retired or no longer work for the former employer responsible for causing your illness.
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