Getting a no win no fee, accident at work agreement with an experienced solicitor is not difficult

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Getting A No Win No Fee, Accident At Work Agreement With An Experienced Solicitor Is Not Difficult You need to understand how a No Win No Fee, Accident at Work agreement works for you. Make sure that you ask your lawyer or your solicitor what the agreement entails to. Read the Terms and Conditions that are attached to your agreement. In cases where you do not understand what certain terms or conditions mean, ask or research about them. What is No Win No Fee, Accident At Work The phrase No Win No Fee, Accident At Work actually is an agreement between you and your lawyer or your solicitor. A solicitor or lawyer will acting on your behalf during a legal situation, specifically personal injury that was experienced while you are at work. In conjunction with the situation at hand, the term no win no fee is the agreement that is set between you and your legal representative that you will only be liable for the cost of their services if you successfully recover monetary claims from the damages that you incurred from the person or company that is liable to you. CFA Agreement Once you enlist the assistance of a lawyer or solicitor in cases where you have a potential claim that will lead to compensation, the lawyer will conduct and study the situation. This actually means that they will study and assess your case if there is a potential for a successful claim. Upon finding where they see a potential for a successful claim on your behalf, this where the CFA or a Conditional Fee Agreement is set and put into play. This means that there is an agreement between you and your legal counsel that it in pursuing this claim; you will only be liable to pay for their services if the case is successful. Under the ruling of the CFA, as of April 1 2013, you will only be charged a rate of 25% basing it on the claims that will you will receive. They cannot charge you more than 25%. This being the case, in the event that you do not win upon filing the claim, you will not be liable to pay them anything. Success Fee Once in an agreement with a solicitor, make sure that you aware that there is a success fee that is involved in the picture. This is actually a benefit for your solicitor. This fee is applied on top of the percentage that they will take from your proceeds from the claim. This is in effect the fee that they charge to cover the base costs that they will incur during the time that they are handling your case. Costs Involved


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