At Truth Legal we have specialist lawyers who can handle your care home injury compensation claim.
We all want to make sure that our loved ones are taken care of in their later years. If your loved one requires ongoing care, you want them to be as comfortable as possible.
Yet we can’t always guarantee they will receive this. If your loved one has suffered an injury in a care home, Truth Legal are here to support you in making a claim for compensation.
The unfortunate truth is that not all care homes provide an adequate level of care.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) conducts regular reviews of care and nursing homes. From their findings, it would appear that significant proportions of homes are still failing to provide reasonable levels of safety, supervision, and care for their residents.
They attribute this in part to the difficulties posed by a growing and ageing population and the current economic climate.
In the words of the CQC:
“The fragility of the adult social care market is now beginning to impact both on the people who rely on these services and on the performance of NHS care.”
Such circumstances can easily put residents’ health, or even lives, at risk. Some examples include:
All of these are nightmare situations, if you have entrusted your loved one into the care of others.
Choosing your legal representatives when making a claim is an important decision. You want to be assured of their experience and expertise, but they must also be people you can trust.
At Truth Legal, our team of qualified and experienced solicitors have the abilities to recover the compensation you deserve. We offer:
We act for clients nationwide, though we are based in Harrogate and Leeds, with a presence in York and London.
To find out more on whether Truth Legal might be right for your personal injury claim, have a look at our article here.
To successfully make a compensation claim for injuries sustained in a care home or nursing home, it must be shown that the home or its employees were negligent in their care towards your loved one.
To establish care home negligence, it must be proved that:
A care home automatically owes a duty of care to all of its residents. It is also responsible for the actions of the staff it employs. As such, establishing that a duty of care exists is very unlikely to be a problem.
Proving the other two steps is often more significant to a claim’s success. However, Truth Legal has years of experience in making successful care home compensation claims. We will tenaciously fight your cause to achieve a fair result. We are based in Harrogate but have a presence in York, London and Manchester. No matter where you might be, we pride ourselves on giving all of our clients an exceptional service, provided by personal injury solicitors, not paralegals in a call centre.
In general: no. An adult who has suffered a personal injury usually has to bring a compensation claim for themselves and in their own name.
However, there are situations in which you can make a compensation claim on a loved one’s behalf:
When a loved one in a care home has suffered an injury they might not want the ‘hassle’ of bringing a care home compensation claim, or may want to avoid ‘making a fuss’. This is perfectly understandable.
However, Truth Legal has helped many people through the care home compensation claims process. Our expertise and experience ensures that we can conduct your claim as quickly and painlessly as possible. We passionately believe in the good that personal injury claims can do: making the negligent party pay for their mistakes, ensuring that they don’t treat other people in the same way, and as result taking the burden off the State.
The fact is: if sub-standard care or other mistreatment has caused your loved one an injury, they deserve to be compensated. Shouldn’t those who have caused the pain and suffering be held to account for what they have done? Shouldn’t they be given a strong incentive to ensure that this should not be allowed to happen to anyone else?
As with all claims, a time limit applies. In general, your loved one must begin their compensation claim within 3 years of the date of the accident in question. A number of rules may change the time limits which apply to your case. If your loved one is thinking of bringing a personal injury claim, or you are worried matters have been left for too long, contact us as soon as possible so that we can advise you on where you stand.
If your loved one’s injury was not their fault, we are often able to conduct matters on the basis of a ‘No Win, No Fee’ agreement.
This means, in the vast majority of situations, that your loved one will not have to pay our fees if we are unsuccessful in recovering compensation for them. On the other hand, if we are successful, our fees will be paid by a portion of your loved one’s compensation award and also by the care home’s insurers.
If you have any concerns on how a claim is funded, we are more than willing to discuss matters with you in more depth. Please feel free to contact us.
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