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If you have already spoken to a few law firms about your medical negligence case you may have been surprised at the lack of enthusiasm. This is not a reflection on your particular case, medical negligence cases are considered to be, not just harder to win and involving more work, but financially less rewarding to the solicitor than nearly all other personal injury claim types. This may sound harsh but sadly law firms are businesses, not champions of the people, and the costs involved in developing a case against an NHS hospital or clinic are far higher than the running costs of other PI cases.
Luckily, many firms have seen this as an opportunity to settle into a niche area of claims and develop workable solutions to this problem. There a growing number of experienced and well organized law firms that specialise in medical negligence law and whose practices can streamline the process to enable them to take on even some of the more risky and harder to prove cases. Finding these specialists is the only hard part.
You will have noticed that most personal injury firms you see advertising on TV seem to only display injury types such as car accidents and work accidents. Such are the more lucrative claim types and certainly the majority of claims management firms will be less likely to jump at the chance to represent you. The web can be a great help in narrowing down the firms that actively search for negligence case to take on. If you search on a search engine for "medical negligence" you will see a list of advertisements. These firms have actually paid to advertise under this term which would suggest that they are not just experienced in such claim types, but that they are actively seeking such cases to represent the victims of medical accidents.
Unlike most PI cases, the use of a local firm may have its benefits. As the claim will be against your local hospital or G.P. your local solicitor's office may have already pursued many cases against them and have a wealth of experience to draw on that will not just assist in the speed of your case being settled but could actually increase the level of compensation that is a awarded to you. With a reputation to protect in that area they will try harder to work with the local authority in charge of the clinical centre being sued which will result in less time taken and less legal fees for them to pay. The balance of whether you will be better off with a more experienced firm outwith your local area or with a local firm with some experience is best explored through an actual discussion with a solicitor at each firm.
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