Do you know what law entitles you to when you are going through a personal injury case? Find out about the legal help you can get.

1. What Legal
Help Can I Get
if I Have
Suffered a
Personal
Injury?

2. Personal Injury Case
When a private individual, the
plaintiff, files a civil “complaint”
against another person,
business, corporation or even
government agency, the
defendant, claiming that they
acted carelessly towards them.

3. First step
Take a legal action to claim
Compensation for a personal injury.
Get advice from a solicitor

4. Main reason for hiring an
attorney
• most of us are not familiar with these
laws
• do not know what law entitles us to
• could end up disadvantaged

5. When do you definitely need a
lawyer?
• If the other party’s lawyer
contacted you to offer
a settlement agreement
• If you have to deal with an insurance company

6. When do you definitely
need a lawyer?
• If your injury case is a pretty serious one,
for example, if you may require surgery
or long-term treatment or even
some permanent impairment
• If you are unable to walk, dress, eat without help or
handle other personal activities

7. Compensation
• Claims management company (CMC)
• Legal action in the civil court
• Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA)
• Criminal Compensation Order
• Government

8. Damages
• General damages
Ex. A payment for pain and suffering.
A payment for loss of future earnings.
• Specific damages
Actual financial loss caused by the accident up to the date
of the hearing
Ex. Damage to clothing or other belongings, travel costs to
hospital and medical expenses, the cost of repairing a car,
etc.

9. Contingency fees
The fee percentage is
not precise: usually
between 33% and 40%
The lawyer’s fees will
be deducted from the
final settlement in
your case, or from the
final verdict at trial.

10. Why hire a personal injury
lawyer?
Here is why!
To protect your rights
You couldn’t and wouldn’t get that much of
compensation on your own.