Asking a No Win No Fee Injury Lawyer When Making a Personal Injury Compensation Claim

The term "no win no fees" is often used in services provided by personal injury lawyers to indicate that regardless of your compensation claim result, you will not have to pay anything for their legal services.

Usually, a no win no fee compensation lawyer will assess your case and would only take it on if he or she is of the opinion that you have a good chance of winning. But what if you don't win and the court orders costs against you? (that is, the court orders you to pay the other parties' legal costs and maybe even court fees); 
What about the costs of doctors reports? and other related expenses to support your injury compensation claim?

Well, there isn't one universal answer to these questions because it all comes down to the conditional cost agreement you sign with your compensation lawyer. It is important to read and understand the fine prints and understand what you are up for when your compensation case end with a particular result.

Usually if the injury lawyer's service is "no win no fee", if means your lawyer will recover all their fees and bills including costs of injury assessments and medical examinations from the losing side or their insurance and you should get 100% of your injury compensation.

If you lose, (again depending on the costs agreement), ideally your injury lawyer would have insurance to cover for all his or her costs as well as associated fees and the winning party's costs. But it may be that they only cover for their costs and potentially you might still have to pay for the assessment and medical fees, court fees and the winning party's costs.

So you see how it is very important to know all these before deciding to go with a particular personal injury lawyer or law firm.

Sometimes half the challenge is looking for the right injury lawyer to represent you and the other half is the compensation claim itself. So choose wisely, make sure you find someone you can work with.

If you are a bit put of by all of these and think maybe you can handle the injury claim yourself, then you should think hard before going down this path.