Catastrophic personal injury claims: claimant solicitor’s practical guidance from first contact to settlement, including funding, capacity, rehabilitation, experts, interim payments and damages (England and Wales)
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The companion Practice Note: Catastrophic injury claims—preliminary considerations sets out the principal matters to be assessed in such claims, including the solicitor’s function, liability, insurance, limitation, funding and rehabilitation. The related Practice Note: Catastrophic injury claims—conduct of the claim supplies guidance on the commonly encountered issues typically arising when running a claim for a severely injured claimant, including retaining counsel, applications for interim payments, appointing experts and a case manager, and matters concerning damages and settlement meetings.
This Practice Note offers guidance on the more practical, day-to-day mechanics and processes of representing a seriously injured claimant. It is arranged chronologically, from the viewpoint of the claimant solicitor, and sets out the main practical steps and considerations pre-issue from the first point of contact with the catastrophically injured claimant or their family. Where applicable, pertinent issues concerning the defendant insurer or solicitor are considered. It will be of particular assistance to practitioners who are new to practising in this area.
Definition of catastrophic injury
As with our other Practice Notes, the definition of ‘catastrophic injury’ adopted in this Practice Note covers injuries that are life changing...
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