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Claims Direct can provide you with support for personal injury claims for an accident that wasn't your fault. As a No Win No Fee Solicitor Claims Direct will always strive to obtain the maximum amount of compensation for your personal injury, and you will always keep 100% of your compensation.
Medical Negligence
Millions of people are treated by health care workers every year, sometimes things do go wrong. If this has happened to you or a loved one, Claims Direct can help you receive compensation for clinical or medical negligence, and you will always keep 100% of your compensation.
Road Traffic Accident
Road traffic accidents are a common cause of personal injuries. If you've been involved in a car accident, Claims Direct can help you claim compensation whether you are making a whiplash claim or have suffered bruising or a more serious injury, and you will always keep 100% of your compensation.
Accident At Work
Over a million people suffer an accident at work every year. And while some injuries are minor, others can have serious consequences such as time out of work, financial and emotional strain and even permanent disability or death. Claims Direct can assist you in making a claim for an accident at work, and you will always keep 100% of your compensation.
Slip and Trip
Tripping on uneven paving or road surfaces and slipping on unclean floors are some of the most common accidents. Although many slip and trip injuries are minor, some can be serious and have long-term effects. Claims Direct can assist you in making a claim, helping you get back on track as quickly as possible and you will always keep 100% of your compensation.
The Institute of Advanced Motoring (IAM) recently released a new survey that found close to 75% of riders and drivers want to change the speed limit on UK motorways from 70mph to 80mph. Over 2,000 were surveyed and 60% said they would adhere to the limit if the speed was increased to 80mph.
In proposals to be unveiled by ministers it is possible that the national speed limit on motorways could be raised to 80mph. While on some rural roads there is talk of reducing the limits as the Government tries to reduce the number of motorist deaths and serious injuries. The speed limit overhaul will be proposals to . . . → Read More: Speed limit on motorways could be raised to 80mph
ON-THE-SPOT-FINE PLAN FOR MOTORISTS MAY NOT WORK SAYS LEGAL EXPERT
The governments plans to allow police officers to issue fines on the spot to careless motorists is being questioned by one of the country’s leading experts on motoring law. Transport and motoring solicitor, Anton Balkitis from Rothera Dowson law firm at Nottingham raised questions and . . . → Read More: ON-THE-SPOT-FINE PLAN FOR MOTORISTS MAY NOT WORK SAYS LEGAL EXPERT
It seems that efforts to try and prevent motor vehicle finance fraud are beginning to pay off, with the number of fraud cases falling by fourteen percent in the last year, with a value of £14.6 million, also down almost fourteen percent, with 832 fraud cases, leading finance trade association reports. This is encouraging because the . . . → Read More: Motor vehicle finance fraud coming under control
A dedicated police unit, demanded by MPs, has been called to crack down on false injury claims such as staged accidents in which vehicles are deliberately crashed to receive cash and in order to gain insurance pay-outs
New legislation coming this spring will mean that car owners need to either insure their vehicle or have it registered off road with a SORN notice. This change in the law means that owning, rather than driving an uninsured vehicle, will be an offence.
Britain’s new Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, has promised to end the so-called “war on motorists” and put the focus on development of ‘greener’ cars, rather than trying to curtail the use of the ones already on the road. This certainly sounds like a good plan in many respects, probably the main one being that a vast . . . → Read More: Is Philip Hammond ending the war on motorists?
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) criticizes proposed augmentations to parking fees in the London metropolitan area. Beginning on the unfortunately unserious day of the 1st of April next year, the increases for higher rates would land at £130, up £10 from current rates. The existing system for parking charges divides offences into two levels. For general . . . → Read More: London parking fee increase
Bradford Council has written off a total of £50,000 in uncollected parking fines in one year. It says that so far, no one has been able to trace the drivers of these vehicles who were mostly issued penalty notices at £35 a piece.
A judge in Germany has taken exception against the prosecution of speeders by dropping charges against 42 speeding drivers. A spokesman for the court said that Judge Helmut Knoener does not believe that speed cameras have anything to do with safety.