How Your Medical Negligence Solicitor Can Help With Your Compensation Claim - By: Tim Bishop

If you've suffered a medical accident, you are also likely to suffer emotionally too. You are probably going to be angry, and experience feelings of despair, loss and resentment. You will want someone to blame and this is usually going to be the doctor or medical professional who made the mistake. All this is understandable.

However, these emotions are not going to help you receive compensation. Your Medical Negligence Solicitor won't be able to help you with your feelings. The intricacies of serious litigation, court proceedings and detailed cross examination are areas for a lawyer's involvement.

So, with your emotions running high, you now have to stand back and first ask yourself how serious your complaint really is. Making a claim for medical negligence (or clinical negligence as it is sometimes known) may be stressful and take months or years to fully investigate. Someone's, possibly unblemished, career is at stake, there could be financial loss; you will need to be examined by an independent doctor and your medical records will be read and studied by people you do not know.

Be honest with yourself: was your operation one in which there is frequent risk? Have you forgotten the serious and worrying state you were in before you had your operation? Was that worse than how you are now?

There may be an alternative outcome to an investigation, other than financial compensation. This may be a better route to follow and will still require a Medical Negligence Solicitor. For example, would you be content to receive an apology? Would your official complaint help prevent others from suffering something similar? Would an investigation offer an explanation that may stop certain emotions on principle, such as resentment or loss of future trust? Or have you been injured to such an extent that you will need expensive remedial treatment, specially adapted equipment or long term care? Or maybe you need financial compensation to cover your living expenses as you have suffered a loss in income through your accident?

Well, this is why speaking to an experienced Medical Negligence Solicitor and getting the right advice is advisable.

You see, the majority of medical accident claims do not get much beyond this stage. Your highly experienced clinical negligence lawyer will make a thorough assessment of your case first and ascertain whether or not it is really worth proceeding. He is likely to do this only on the basis that your claim has at least a 60 per cent chance of success.

Your lawyer will talk through his terms and fees with you and, if he thinks you have a claim, might start giving you an idea of compensation, together with his tactics and strategy for handling your case.

About the Author

Tim Bishop is senior partner at Bonallack & Bishop, a firm of specialist Medical Negligence Solicitors who can advise you on your medical or accident claims. He has grown the firm by 1000% in 13 years and has plans for further expansion. Tim is responsible for all major strategic decisions, seeing himself as a businessman who owns a law firm.

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