Our expert work accident lawyers will handle your claim at no cost to you* and in the vast majority of cases you will receive 100% of your compensation**.
Expertise And Understanding From Irwin Mitchell
Employers have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of their employees in the workplace. If this protection is inadequate, one of the most serious consequences can be a spinal injury.
Irwin Mitchell has acted for a large number of clients who have sustained a spinal cord injury at work resulting in quadriplegia or paraplegia. We can help you claim compensation but also offer practical guidance on rehabilitation and re-building your life following your injury.
At Irwin Mitchell we fight fearlessly to achieve the best outcome for your spinal injury claim. We’re renowned for our understanding of the issues affecting you and your family due to a spinal cord injury, and we know what positive action to take to make a difference.
Our lawyers offer the highest level of professionalism and expertise, combined with dedication and sensitivity.
Above all, we put you first.
Handling Spinal Cord Injury Claims With Expertise And Sensitivity
Back injuries, and particularly injuries to the spinal cord have a dramatic and life-changing impact not only on the injured person, but also on those close to them.
Spinal injuries can occur in many different workplace scenarios. They often result from a fall (particularly one from height such as a fall through a roof or ceiling, from scaffold or down stairs), or sometimes where there has been a crush injury caused by items falling onto someone (for example in a scaffolding or shelving collapse).
If you have suffered a spinal injury at work, you’re entitled to every opportunity to improve your quality of life and to receive the best possible medical treatment and rehabilitation care.
At Irwin Mitchell, we tailor our service to you. We offer much more than securing compensation for your accident. We fully understand the concerns of clients with spinal injuries, so making arrangements for your rehabilitation and any long-term support that is needed is a central part of what we do.
Once we’ve assessed your specific medical, care and therapy needs, our specialist spinal injury team will be able to look into getting you the best possible support package for you, including re-housing if need be.
We know you’ll be worried about money too. Where possible we’ll arrange for interim payments to be made to you before your settlement is made. During your spinal injury claim, we will keep you well informed throughout every step of the process.
In addition to physical aspects you may also have difficulty in coping mentally following your accident. The effects of a spinal cord injury are usually wide ranging and often follow serious and distressing accidents such that people involved in these accidents may also suffer psychological or psychiatric illnesses. Illnesses such as depression may occur whilst the injured person is trying to adjust to a new life, or other illnesses such as post traumatic stress disorder may arise as a result of the accident.
Proven Expertise In Spinal Cord Injuries In The Workplace
Irwin Mitchell is also one of the largest and most experienced personal injury law firms in the country.
Our team includes many of the country’s finest personal injury lawyers. They operate in highly specialised teams, offering the highest level of legal expertise in spinal cord injuries in the workplace.
Irwin Mitchell’s Commitment To Making A Difference
Irwin Mitchell’s first commitment is to you, and to achieving the best outcome for your claim.
We also have a long history of campaigning with leading organisations in numerous personal injury fields. Together with those organisations we seek improvements in health and safety, prevent accident and injury where possible, and improve the quality of life and levels of compensation for those who have suffered injury.
We work closely with spinal injury experts across the country and we regularly attend Spinal Injury Association training sessions to keep up to date with the latest developments in spinal cord injury care. It’s a pioneering way for lawyers to work - so much so that we were given a Rehabilitation First Award in 2010.
We have also pursued many leading legal cases in order to improve the prospects of success of claims for various forms of personal injury, and to obtain fairer compensation.
The above information relates to the law and procedures in England and Wales
* Subject to entering a ‘No Win, No Fee’ agreement with us and complying with its terms.
** Does not apply to group actions, criminal injuries or accidents and illnesses outside England and Wales and is subject to compliance with the terms of your funding arrangements.
All Scottish cases will be handled by the Scottish law firm with which we are associated, Irwin Mitchell Scotland LLP. The law relating to funding is different in Scotland and you will receive separate advice about what that means as well as a separate funding agreement