Accident Claims

Have you been injured as a result of an accident that wasn't your fault? If so, you may be entitled to accident compensation - and the National Accident Helpline are here to guide you through the accident claims process. In the past 15 years, we’ve helped tens of thousands of people across the UK make compensation claims for their injuries - compensation they deserved.

Accidents can happen at any time, and are often unexpected. Many accidents occur on the road involving cars/motorcycles and some occur in the workplace as a result of inadequate training/safety equipment. Accidents in retail premises e.g. slips/trips in supermarkets are also common as are public accidents and medical negligence cases. Claims can be made for most non-fault accidents and compensation is rewarded depending on the claimants injuries (both physical and psychological) and financial losses caused as a result of the injury.

Accident victims regularly need time off work to recover from their personal injury - leading to financial problems such as struggling to keep up with mortgage repayments. In fact, many people return to work too early due to these problems, often making their injury worse. That is why it is important that they make an accident claim and are awarded the compensation they deserve - to give them the time needed to make a full recovery following their accident.

Accident claims should be successful if it can be shown that someone has been at fault in some way - that they have failed in a duty or not taken reasonable care - and that this fault or failure caused (or partly caused) the accident. This may be quite obvious in some cases, but in others it can be quite complicated.

An example of a responsible party neglecting their duty of care would be a supermarket employee mopping a spillage on the floor but not displaying wet floor signs, resulting in a customer slipping and injuring themselves in the process - the customer would be entitled to make an accident claim as their injury could have been prevented by the supermarket.

At the National Accident Helpline, we work with specialist personal injury lawyers across the UK so you can be confident that you will be looked after by specialist professionals who will talk you through all aspects of making accident claims.

Information about some of the more common types of accident claims are contained within the following sections:

Accidents at work

Car accident claims

Holiday accidents abroad

Slips, trips and falls