£100,000 compensation obtained for accident at work

Posted 02/04/2014

Tom Ranson, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained compensation for Mr S who required medical treatment and specialist orthopaedic review after suffering an injury to his arm in an accident at work in 2010.

The insurers refused to make timely or reasonable interim payments and maintained that Mr S contributed to his own misfortune. They initially suggested that the claim was worth less than £20,000 before increasing gradually until a final figure of around £100,000 was eventually agreed.

Mr S, a long distance lorry driver, refused to allow himself to be intimidated by the insurer and was pleased that he followed our advice, given the settlement figure was around five times the original offer made to him.

Tom Ranson comments: “Mr S’s case is by no means an isolated example. With the cost of litigation very much at the forefront of all our minds, it is baffling that insurers routinely fail to grasp the realistic value of the claims before them. Instead they choose to make derisory offers and fail to make interim payments when they should, which significantly increases the cost of litigation through no fault of the claimant. Needless to say, it is vital that injured parties and their lawyers are robust enough to avoid settling claims at an undervalue.”