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A Guide to How to Claim Compensation for Prisoners
There is a very wide range of ways that accidents can occur in a prison environment. Both inmates and prison officers are in a tough, stressful environment. There is also the possibility of aggression from an inmate resulting in a physical assault. In effect, we have a veritable melting pot of potential accidents that could lead to a personal injury compensation claim.
Prison injuryIf you have been in prison, or currently are in prison, and have sustained an injury, then you may be in a position to claim compensation. The same applies for prison officers who have sustained an injury whilst carrying out their duties.
In order to have the best chance of making a successful compensation claim, you need to be prepared and armed with the information you need. This guide will attempt to give you that information. It will explain how to make a claim, what kinds of things compensation can be claimed for and some guidelines on the amount of compensation that may be received.
No Win No Fee Prison Compensation Claims
Not everyone has access to sufficient funds to pay for their own legal fees whilst pursuing a personal injury compensation claim. Indeed, for prisoners who are the victims of an accident resulting in a personal injury, it is highly unlikely that they will have the cash reserves to make a claim.
Therefore, we have developed a No Win No Fee service, that has been designed to make sure that everyone who needs legal representation to make a personal injury compensation claim, has access to it, regardless of their financial situation.
This type of Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) is very easy to understand. You won’t need to pay us anything during the process of making a compensation claim for an injury sustained in prison. If we lose your case, you still don’t need to pay us anything. But if we win your case, we will take our fee from the compensation you receive. We are legally restricted to only charging as much as 25% of the total amount of compensation awarded.
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How to Start a Prison Injury Claim
If you believe that you have reason to pursue a compensation claim following an injury that was sustained either as an inmate or a prison officer, then you are going to need some legal advice starting off.
When you contact us, we will arrange a completely free legal counseling session for you. During this session, we will ask questions such as:
- How did the injury occur?
- Was it an accident, or an assault that caused the injury?
- When did it happen?
- What kind of medical treatment have you received?
- Will there be any long-term or permanent health issues as a result of the injury?
Once we have all of the details of the injury, we will then advise you on what to do next. In most cases, we will offer to take in your prison injury compensation claim under a No Win No Fee agreement. We will then pursue your prison injury compensation claim on your behalf, and attempt to get you the most compensation possible based on the details of your injury and how it has affected your life.
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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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