Can you have your day in court, with a personal claim, if that's what you want? Donald Trump used the Rolling Stones’ recording of their 1969 song “You Can't Always Get What You Want" during his 2016 primary and presidential campaigns. Following the Republican National Convention in July 2016, which was widely televised, the Stones went public with their views on the use of the song composed by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. They stated that they did not endorse Trump. They also requested that Trump should stop using their songs to support his message. Despite these requests, Trump continued his use of the song at rallies, even beyond the 2016 presidential elections. It seems that, even if you are the Rolling Stones, you can’t always get what you want. It is also the case that, if you are an injured person with a personal injury compensation claim, you can’t always get what you want – and we’re going to look at some aspects of that in this article. Most people ask if they Continue Reading
FAQs
Below are listed all of our articles covering Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) in relation to Personal Injury Claims in Scotland.
Where to look if you can’t find answers to your personal injury claim questions
Typos in stock photographs can be good inspiration. How annoying would it be if you could only find “answars” and no answers? And it turns out that, once you start looking for them, spelling mistakes in premium photographs keep turning up. If you don’t manage to “upgrade your life”, take heart from the fact that it might still be possible to “uprgade your life”. The above photo is marketed as “Upgrade your life”. So someone wrote this, someone photographed it and someone uploaded it to a website for sale. None of them noticed the jumbled up letters? Not seeing the wood for the trees is a problem for anyone who puts information on a website in the hope of helping others. Another aspect of this is the “curse of knowledge”, where you assume that your reader’s understanding of your topic is greater than it really is. If you pitch the level too high, your readers will leave before they’re much past the headline. On this website, we try to answer questions at a Continue Reading
5 Important Questions to ask yourself if you have been injured in an accident
In a 1994 episode of The Simpsons, Apu is sacked from his job at the Kwik-E-Mart. This is the result of him selling a customer (Homer) meat which has gone off. Subsequently, Homer feels sorry for Apu, who stays with the Simpson family while he is looking for another job. They devise a plan to visit the President of Kwik-E-Mart in the Indian Himalayas and ask for Apu's job back. The President allows visitors to ask him a maximum of three questions. Of course, Apu only needs a single question – “Can I get my job back, please?” – and, of course, Homer messes it up for him. When they eventually get their audience with the President, high in the mountains, Homer is taken aback by the boss's appearance - a guru with long white hair, sitting cross-legged. Before Apu can get a word in, Homer asks: “Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?” (Yes). “Really?” (Yes). “You?” (Yes). At that, their questioning rights used up, the President asks them to leave and “come Continue Reading
When does Legal Expenses Insurance cover you for a Personal Injury Claim?
Cammy Keith, the all-time leading goalscorer for Keith football club, went viral on social media following his side's lead to defeat to Rothes on 03 February 2018. Keith (the player) scored both goals for Keith (the team) and so, on results pages, it appeared as though he had almost achieved a near-impossible outcome: a draw where one player was up against a full team of 11 players. A tweet that he had put in the "quite the shift" was retweeted many times. Quite the shift for Keith on his own. pic.twitter.com/nkni1CMcvy — The Harry Wraggs (@THWtwit) February 3, 2018 In that case, the bare statistics gave a misleading impression as to whether it had been a fair match. As an injured person with a possible personal injury claim for compensation, it is never a fair match at the outset. You need to take every possible measure to tip the scales back to your side, even if you don't level them up completely. The scales are weighted in favour of the insurer on the other side Continue Reading
Who are the Best Personal Injury Solicitors in Moray?
At Moray Claims / Grigor & Young, we regularly receive enquiries from people in the Moray area regarding potential personal injury claims. Because – via this website and the Grigor & Young website – we have frequently expressed our thoughts and feelings on all things personal-injury-claim-related, we often get asked who are some of the other Scottish solicitors who provide compensation claims services to injured people in Moray. It’s important that you should be as informed as possible if you are making decisions in relation to a potential personal injury claim. Here is an alphabetical list of some of the solicitors who market their services to people in Moray for personal injury compensation claims. This has been compiled by reference to Google search engine results (“personal injury moray”) and we have tried our best to make the list as comprehensive as possible by researching this over a period of 7 days. 1. Bonnar Accident Law A Scottish-based firm of solicitors Continue Reading
3 types of information your personal injury solicitor needs from you at the start
As Dan Pink notes in his 2018 book, When (The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing), by some estimates, about half the people in a typical marathon are taking part in a marathon for the first time. Another thing that links many first-time marathoners, as it turns out, is age. A scientific paper published in 2014 concludes that people search for meaning when they approach a new decade in chronological age. At certain ages, we are inspired to greater self-reflection than at others. Adults often examine their lives for existential meaning when they approach a new decade in age (29, 39, 49 etc.) – which can lead to behaviour that suggests an ongoing search for meaning. Exercising more intensely, with a view to participating in a marathon, is one example of such behaviour. This phenomenon was of interest to me because I completed my first marathon in 2017 – at the age of 49. It seems that reaching the end of a decade in life can shake up our thinking, directing what we do and how we Continue Reading
Do you have freedom of choice of personal injury solicitor?
Humans have an overpowering need to return favours. This is one pillar of the psychology of persuasion explored in Robert Cialdini’s book, “Influence”. The rule of reciprocity is that we feel a duty to repay others in kind for whatever they have done for us. It’s powerful because it forms the basis of all societies: it allowed our ancestors to share resources securely, knowing that their favour would be returned later. If someone else does us a favour, we feel a psychological burden until we return it. We’re afraid of being labelled as a parasite, if we don’t. Many experiments have demonstrated this phenomenon. In one of these - at Cornell University in the early 1970s - Professor Dennis Regan demonstrated that people are so anxious to get rid of the burden of debt that they will perform much larger favours in return for small ones. In that study, a researcher – “Joe” – bought test subjects a 10 cent Coke as an unprompted favour and then later asked the subjects to buy raffle Continue Reading
Why Insurance Is Crucial In Personal Injury Claims
On one level, the idea behind personal injury law is simple. You have suffered an injury as the result of the wrongful or negligent conduct of someone else. You seek financial compensation from them. The intention of the law is that the money you claim should somehow put you back in the position you would have been in if you had not been injured. But financial compensation is not like for like. It rarely, if ever, achieves the goal of making up for the injury losses you have suffered. This problem is most acute where the injuries are very serious. Money for the loss of a limb is never going to be a magic wand that reverses the effects of the injuries. With minor injuries, which could be described more as an inconvenience and where a full recovery is more likely, monetary compensation works better as a remedy but still imperfectly. “That personal injury claim was a nice wee earner and I’d happily have another one next week” – said no genuinely-injured person ever. Most personal Continue Reading
How Social Media Surveillance Can Undermine Your Personal Injury Claim
There are those who predicted that the years from 2010 to 2020 would become known as the "transparency" decade, in which no one would be able to "live a lie". It is perhaps not turning out to be as clear-cut as it might have seemed then, especially when we are having such issues with fake news and the apparent smokescreens created by certain people and organisations in positions of power. It is hard to remember that there was once a time when you did not always know what your friends were up to. A time long ago when, in order to hear their news, you would need to phone them or arrange to meet them face-to-face. Since Facebook began in 2004 and Twitter in 2006, there has been an explosion in the use of social media. On the internet, something like 1400 blog posts are produced every minute. Dozens of hours of video are uploaded per minute. And tens of thousands of images are shared every minute. Facebook data from May 2016 indicated that there were 36.45 million users in the Continue Reading
How a Criminal Conviction helps with a Personal Injury Claim
A personal injury claim arising from an incident which took place in a Lossiemouth pizza takeaway has provided a good example of how a criminal conviction can be used in a personal injury claim to pave the way for the claim to succeed. This is a procedural decision from the All-Scotland Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh. In this article we will consider three aspects of how a criminal conviction helps with a personal injury claim. Firstly, we will look at the law in relation to the use of criminal convictions in civil proceedings such as personal injury claims. Secondly, we will see how the reference to a criminal conviction in the Lossiemouth case helped the claimant establish that compensation should be payable to him. Finally, we will look at the question of whether it is ever possible for a person who is blamed for an accident/injury to argue their way out of it even if there is a criminal conviction against them. Continue Reading
FAQs about After the Event Insurance and Speculative Fee Agreements
Given the way we deal with personal injury claims on a ‘no win- no fee’ (or ‘speculative’) basis at Moray Claims / Grigor & Young, we have to have ‘After the Event’ (‘ATE’) insurance in place. ATE insurance is “after the event” in the sense that your accident was the “event”. If you did not have any ‘Before the Event’ insurance in place (e.g. legal expenses insurance included as part of your house contents insurance) and you do not qualify for legal aid, we need to find another way to insure against the risk that your claim will be unsuccessful and a court makes an award of costs/expenses against you. ATE insurance insures against that risk of adverse costs. In this article, we will consider three questions related to ATE insurance and the speculative fees agreement we get you to sign in conjunction with the ATE insurance. Continue Reading
How often to remind Your Personal Injury Solicitor about Your Case
One of my favourite “job interview” jokes features in various memes on the internet. HR Manager: "What is your greatest weakness?" Interviewee : "Honesty." HR Manager: "I don't think honesty is a weakness." Interviewee : "I don't really give a *!@# what you think." Of course, interviews are intense, stressful experiences where it seems so much can go wrong, including being "too honest". But what if the thing that goes wrong is that you don’t even make it to the interview? What if you make a mistake with the date? It’s not hard to find this sort of "date error" experience reported on the internet. “I’ve just come back from my interview at X, which I went to a week early, and took a day off college for.” “If a candidate turned up a whole week early for an interview, how badly would it affect their chances in your eyes?” “I'm mortified. I must have misread their email. Do I still have a chance of getting the job?” “Well, better a week early than a week Continue Reading