Clear answers when life changes in a moment
A serious injury can make the return-to-work question feel like a test that must be passed quickly. This guide sets out a calmer approach: phased returns, reasonable adjustments, Access to Work support, and the claim and benefits issues that are worth checking before a decision is made.
After a serious injury, families often absorb small expenses without thinking of them as evidence. This guide explains how to record travel, home adjustments, paid help, equipment and childcare in a simple, proportionate way that can support a claim months or years later.
A serious injury overseas raises urgent practical questions before any legal ones: who to call, what to preserve and which country’s rules may apply. This guide explains how travel insurance, package-holiday protections and local law can interact, and how UK families can keep a claim on track while arranging a safe return home.
A serious injury settlement can arrive as a single sum or as a series of annual payments that rise with inflation. This article explains how periodical payment orders work, where a lump sum still earns its place, and the questions worth putting to a solicitor and an independent financial adviser before a decision that will shape the next forty years.
When a serious injury happens to a child, the legal claim moves at a different pace — one measured in school terms and birthdays rather than months. This guide explains the litigation friend’s role, why settlements need court approval, and how families can prepare for the practical questions that arrive at eighteen.
A serious injury can make the family home feel like a series of barriers. This guide explains how to assess housing needs, use occupational therapy and Disabled Facilities Grants, and approach property or adaptation costs within a settlement without tying up compensation in the wrong walls.
After a serious injury, families often meet a case manager without fully understanding what the role involves or how it is funded. This article explains the practical work of coordination, the funding routes that may be available, and the questions worth asking before appointing someone.
Limitation periods are one of the most important practical rules in any serious injury claim, yet they are often misunderstood. This plain-English guide explains the usual three-year period, the date-of-knowledge principle, and the exceptions that can apply to children and protected parties.
No win, no fee describes a mechanism, not a price. This checklist sets out ten practical questions about success fees, disbursements and insurance that can help injured people compare firms and understand what they are signing before they commit.
The Rehabilitation Code allows treatment, equipment and support to begin long before liability is settled. This article explains how the protocol works in practice across England and Wales, how to request an assessment, and what injured people and their families should realistically expect from it.
An allegation that an injured person was partly to blame can unsettle an otherwise strong claim. This article explains how contributory negligence is assessed in England and Wales, why it does not automatically end a claim, and what the evidence and financial consequences may involve.
An early settlement offer in a serious injury claim can feel decisive, but it is usually a negotiating step rather than a final verdict. This guide explains how to assess an offer against future care, lost earnings and long-term needs, and what to ask before deciding.
The personal injury discount rate is a small figure with an outsized effect on settlements that must fund decades of care. This explainer sets out how the rate is set, why the 2026 review matters, and what claimants can reasonably ask their legal team about assumptions, periodical payments and protecting a care package.
A serious injury claim is not built by legal argument alone. It rests on a body of medical evidence assembled from treating records, independent experts and the claimant's own account. This guide explains who instructs experts, what a report can and cannot say, and how families can spot evidence that needs closer scrutiny.
Compensation is rarely the fastest source of help after a serious injury, yet many families treat it as the only one. This article sets out seven practical support routes — from case management and vocational rehabilitation to housing grants, benefits and peer networks — that can be pursued alongside a claim rather than after it.
A serious injury claim depends on the client's instructions — so what happens when injury affects the ability to give them? This article explains litigation friends, Court of Protection deputyship and why some settlements must be approved by a judge, in plain English and without the jargon.
An explanation of interim payments in catastrophic injury claims, including how solicitors apply for them, the evidence that strengthens an application, and how they can fund rehabilitation, equipment and adaptations before settlement. It also sets out common delays, client-care considerations and questions families should ask about funding in 2026.
A calm, practical framework for the first three days after a life-changing injury, covering hospital communication, preserving information, insurer contact, benefits and when to seek specialist legal advice. It explains what families can do now, what can wait, and the paperwork and phrases to avoid under pressure.