Accident Types

Our personal injury lawyers form the most experienced personal injury law firm in the country. They have set important recent legal precedents in personal injury claims.

We offer access to lawyers with over 85 years experience of acting only for injured people with a national database of experts to support your claim.

Whatever your injury claim, we have expert teams across the country to give you free claim advice. These include specialists in the following accident types:

Accidents at work:

Our lawyers form the most experienced personal injury law firm working for those injured at work. We have an unmatched history of pioneering cases for workplace victims and a vast pool of expertise and knowledge from over 85 years history. These claims are made at no cost to you.

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Asbestos - related claims:

Clear Answers' specialist lawyers, Thompsons Solicitors have a long and honourable record of fighting successfully for the rights of asbestos injury victims in the UK and overseas.

We are currently continuing the fight together with mesothelioma victims and their families for their right to claim compensation. Mesothelioma is a cancer brought on by exposure to asbestos fibres and is usually fatal.

In 2002 the insurance industry argued that if a person was exposed to asbestos by more than one company during their working life, they should not be able to claim full compensation from only one of those companies. This attempt failed; however, the insurers did not give up and in 2006 they tried again.

When the House of Lords reviewed this claim again in May 2006, they agreed with the insurers and decided that if one or more of the companies responsible for exposing the mesothelioma sufferer to asbestos was not insured or was not traceable then they could not claim the full amount of compensation.

Thompsons were devastated at the ruling which meant that victims of the fatal asbestos cancer would receive massive cuts in their compensation, while the insurers would save millions of pounds.

In most cases, employers knew of the dangers they were exposing their workers to when they asked them to work with asbestos without the necessary protective clothing, so Thompsons were not prepared to accept the House of Lords' decision.

Thompsons continued to campaign with the trade unions and the victims of asbestos related diseases. Together they lobbied government and highlighted the facts to make everyone aware of the injustice.

In June 2006, the hard work paid off and the Prime Minister announced that he would amend the Compensation Bill to overturn the decision made by the House of Lords and restore the right to full compensation for Mesothelioma sufferers.

Thompsons are now pressurising the Government to act swiftly to ensure that some victims don't miss out simply because their claim is settled before the Compensation Bill is amended.

The BBC has been following this campaign with interest and links to some of their stories can be found below:

Families fight asbestos appeal
Widows lose asbestos Lords ruling
Asbestos pay out fight continues
Blair to change asbestos ruling
New Law in asbestos cancer claims
Scotland to adopt asbestos ruling

If you or someone you know has contracted mesothelioma or any other asbestos related disease, contact Clear Answers for advice about making a claim for compensation.

We ensure our service is cost free at all times for asbestos injury victims.

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Harmful substances:

If you have an injury from something in the environment, such as a chemical, we can offer you advice from lawyers who have established the leading recent case in the UK for those injured by exposure to chemicals and other hazards at work (see industrial diseases below). We can use this expertise in cases outside the workplace for those injured by toxins or other substances in the environment.

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Industrial diseases:

We believe our lawyers have established the most important recent legal precedent for those harmed at work by substances which cause injury. In the case of Dugmore v Swansea NHS Trust (2003) we successfully argued that whenever a safer alternative to something that has caused injury is available at work, the employer must be liable for the damage done,even if they could not foresee the harm which was going to be done. In this case a nurse had suffered dermatitis from working with latex gloves.

This is a very important argument for those injured through exposure to substances at work and is a good example of our positive, ground-breaking approach.

We are also specialists on personal injury claims from long term exposure to harmful work, such as V.W.F. or hearing loss claims

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Medical negligence:

If something has gone wrong in your medical treatment or care and you have suffered injury, our medical negligence team can advise if you have a claim and how to pursue that claim at no cost.

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Military claims:

we have specialist lawyers for any claims arising from the armed services. They can advise on recent important changes in this law, especially the important new rulings on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) cases.

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Product liability:

If you have been injured by faulty goods, we can explain this complex area of law to you and, if you have a reasonable claim, give you access to experts to assist your personal injury claim.

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Public liability:

If you have had an injury outside the workplace which is the fault of another, for example tripping in the street, an accident on holiday or at school our teams which form the most experienced personal injury law firm in the country can guide you through the laws which apply and take on your claim at no cost to you.

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Road traffic accident claims:

we have a specialist team to process your injury claim from a road traffic accident to secure the maximum fair compensation in the quickest possible time. Our nationwide database of experts help us to achieve this.

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