I was involved in a car accident a while ago and the 3rd parties insurance has made me an offerfor my injuries in full and final settlement..

Im more than happy with the figure,but in the letter from my solicitor thats arrived today it says he says "I propose to retain the sum of £500 on account of costs and you will recieve the sum of £xxxxxx"

Surely all the solicitors costs and fee's are paid by the 3rd parties insurance and shouldnt be taken out of my awarded settlement??

I will be calling in the morning,but has anyone any advice ?

TIA...

 

What injuries did you have from the accident mate?

 

If its relevant i had hand,arm and back injury..

 

Well if like you say 'I'm more than happy with the settlement',I'd personally just go along with it.....

 

I didnt said i was happy with the settlement..

I said im more than happy with the figure,but not when there is £500 deducted from it..

 

What is the settlement figure?

 

Why ?

 

Ho ho, he wants info but doesn't want to give any.

 

Was this a no win no fee claim also?
Just interested to know as it may be the figure that was settled on to why they are taking the said amount of £500?

 

Because, like me, he's probably astounded that someone who has successfully managed to nudge everyone else's insurance premium up a few quid for no other reason than because you can has the gaul to ask why your solicitors has their nose in the insurance payout trough when it's clearly all for you.

your post counjours up the following mental image:

You make me sick.
astraboy.

 

Imho my thought's were along though's lines but wanted a little info first,not shy to get to the point aye astraboy

 

this thread was never going to go well

had car crash written all over it

 

To be fair, until the system is altered to make financial gain from an accident impossible (unless you are disabled by the accident and need financial help to pay for equipment to help you live your daily life), if you don't use the option of making a financial claim you are really just cutting your nose off to spite your face.

Anyone honestly think that if everyone were honest and didn't claim a bit of whippo every crash the premiums would come down? Unlikely.

My wife was in an accident, got a grand "go away" money and its made naff all difference to her neck - it still plays up so what was the point of the money?

As for the solicitor taking a cut - I believe the no win no fee is actually *****. The award you get is the net figure. I think its the way its paid to the solicitors and to you that allows them to use the no win no fee spiel but its bollox.

 

Don't sugar coat it!

 

Astra boy is always pissed with me because i turned his advances down....

Hey i dont care if your insurance has gone up £40....What i do care about is providing for my family.If like me,your self employed and somebody takes that ability away through no fault of your own,then yes i would like to be reimbursed for that..

It wasnt your stupid bint of a missus that wrecked my car was it and thats why you constantkly chip in with inane ramblings?

 

The solicitor is going to want his cut, the detail is probably in the small print of the agreement you signed when you appointed him, whether a percentage or time based.

 

Of course...

I expect the solicitor to be paid for his time and im sure the bill will amount to more than £500...

We will see how it goes in the morning....

 

The solicitor will be earning A LOT more than £500 from your claim (3-4 times that at least), so worth asking what that £500 is for.

 

Leather clad rent boys and cocaine probably.

 

You haven't actually said whether you were to blame, presumably not. However did the insurance companies agree knock-for-knock or some other type of 'everyone's a loser' scam settlement? In which case you could be responsible for some of your costs.

 

There is a sliding scale for injurys revieved in accidents


When i got hit the breakdown was

Whiplash £1500
Physio £3000
Car hire £3000

the sum settled was about 10K i think i only saw 1.5K as that was the agreed amount the rest went on the items above and fees

Mart

 

I wasnt to blame..

I was stationary at traffic lights,and the woman behind me never slowed down as she was on her mobile phone. She hit me and pushed me into the car in front.

Liability of the accident was never in doubt..

Mart....

Yes i understand.. The car repairs alone where a fortune,as i was in a rare 2 seater at the time.
3 lots of physio.
Car hire for 6 weeks whilst parts were sourced and car repaired.

I know the claim must be well over 15k,probably 20k+ based on just the above 3 things..

 

No chap my missus doesn't drive. If she did she'd probably have more scruples than you and not go down like an Argentine football player when someone taps them from behind.

As for refusing your advances, don't flatter yourself, the only question I have us what you're going to do for a face when godzilla wants his **** back?
Astraboy.

 

So, what did they say?

 

Have to agree with EddScott here, if and every if, its made impossible to make a profit out of a no fault accident, insurance will not go down, the insurance compnaies will find new ways to justify (to themselves) increased premiums. There are too many people solicitors, physios, doctors willing to sign you off for weeks at a time with their snouts in the trough for the system to be fully halted.
I have the same feeling about whiplash claims as I do the get money back from PPI claims, the whole system is corrupt anyway so grab if while you can, because if dont then someone ese will be clambering over you to grab it.

Richard

 

Rightly or wrongly, everyone is entitled to make a claim in the event of an accident.
Thing is, its just so had to disprove injury symptoms - even if you're an expert
Problem is a lot of upheaval in most cases, this should be taken into consideration.
My wife was hit by a 7.5 tonne tipper truck about 2 years ago(Not sure how hard, but her car was knocked about 20 feet forward from the traffic lights.
She is still receiving treatment, and so far has had 3 MRI scan's.
This should be rewarded.

However, I know of several people who work for Royal Mail.
For a small fee, they will crash into the back of your car
This should not be rewarded, but how can you ever disprove that claim.

 

Am I being a bit naive here? I've never had cause to make a claim but surely Fatscoobfella1's is justifiable. Why all the hostility?

 

I used to whinge about people claiming too, before I understood the reasoning behind it. Simply put, a person has the right not to have their life f*cked up by someone who could, and should, have taken reasonable care in the circumstances not to.

 

It's not so much of whether its justified, its the money grubbing, automatic entitlement, and outstretched hand approach to it.

But it was the whiny-bitch bleating about someone else doing exactly what he's doing that really tipped me over the edge.

 

Oh come ON Astraboy, don't beat about the bush, say what you really think