Personal injury lawyer fees
No Win No Fee Fees Explainer
Klein Compensation Law offers a ‘No Win No Fee’ service to ensure you can access the expert legal help you need for your claim.
If you don’t win your case, there will be no legal fees to pay to Klein Compensation Law.
Legal fees are one aspect of a lawyer’s legal costs involved in running a personal injury claim. The other type of legal costs are legal disbursements, which are expenses incurred and paid to other parties for your claim such as medical report expenses and court fees. These are separate to legal fees. We will do our best to assist our clients with funding of disbursements and in most cases our client’s will not have to pay these up front or out of their own pocket.
You will be given a full explanation of our no win no service at your first free appointment or otherwise you can make a free no obligation call if you want a full explanation now.
Read more below, and please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information.
No win no fee explainer
How does No Win No Fee work?
Legal fees vs legal disbursements
The legal costs of a running a personal injury claim are legal fees and legal disbursements.
Legal fees are the amounts paid to lawyers for their time, effort and expertise. For most types of claims fees will be charged in accordance with scales of costs. The scales are published every couple of years and are determine by a legal cost committee. The scales allow for fees to be calculated and charged basically (but not quite) on an hourly rate method.
Legal disbursements are monies paid to third parties for things that are needed to progress your case – things like court fees, medical records, GP and specialist reports and medicolegal examinations and reports.
You will be fully aware of all of these costs by way of a detailed written estimate before your case is commenced, and you will receive further advice of costs along the way.
What does "win" in no win no fee mean?
A win means the successful outcome of your claim by the receipt of lump sum compensation or benefits either by settlement of the claim or by way of a final judgement, decision or award in your favour (as may be relevant to your case).
Put simply a win is if you receive lump sum compensation or a payout for your claim.
No up-front payments
If we as assess your case as having reasonable prospects of success, then we will assist you with payment of disbursements and in most cases no deposits, up-front payments or down-payments will be expected. In fact, in most cases that we run, any costs incurred for disbursements (such a medical report or court fees) will be paid for by Klein Compensation Law along the way.
Do you have to pay anything up front or along the way?
The answer in almost all cases we take on is No. You will only pay once your case has finished, and you have received your lump sum compensation.
What legal costs are paid by the insurer if I win and what do I pay?
In almost all of our cases that win, in addition to your compensation payout, the Insurance Company will also pay a good portion of your legal fees, and it will pay reasonably incurred legal disbursements. Those amounts will be covered directly by the Insurance Company and any shortfall will be deducted from your compensation payout.
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Are there any hidden or additional costs?
Fees & disbursements are the only legal costs associated with personal injury law services
There are no other fees, there will be no other charges. There will be no surprises or additions, you will be fully aware of all fees and costs associated with your case.
If you don't win, we guarantee that none of our legal fees are payable
Our no win no fee service guarantees that if you don’t win your case, you won’t have to pay our legal fees.
If court proceedings have not been initiated, and your case doesn’t win you will not be liable for any of the insurer’s legal costs.
If, however, court proceedings have been commenced, and your case doesn’t win then you may be at risk of being liable to pay the insurer’s legal costs. If you are thinking of commencing court proceedings, then we will provide you with all the advice you need regarding that risk and we will take all steps to protect you as much as is possible from that risk.
Personal Injury Law costs and fees are regulated by law
For most types of personal injury claims Scales of Costs set by the Legal Costs Committee will regulate the fees which a legal practitioner may receive and charge for professional services to a client. All fees are transparent and controlled every step of the way.
Other laws and regulations provide you with many layers of protection with regard to the legal costs you can be charged and to ensure your bill for legal costs is reasonable, fair and proportionate.
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Timeframes for payment of fees and disbursements
When will get a bill for legal fees if I win
The only time you will be charged for our legal fees is at the end of your claim after it has won. Timeframes for final payouts differs for all categories of claim and will depend on the particular circumstances of your injury and treatment as well as any particular issues in your case. We always provide our clients with realistic timeframes for completion of claims. Once your case has been won and your payout has been received, legal fees as well as disbursements will be included in your bill for legal costs.
Disbursements are covered along the way by Klein Compensation Law
If we assess that your case has reasonable prospects of success, then Klein Compensation Law will offer to assist you with payment of disbursements along the way. Those disbursement will be paid by Klein Compensation as and when they are incurred. Once your case has been won and your payout has been received, legal fees as well as disbursements will be included in your bill for legal costs.
In the event of not winning
If your case doesn’t win, you will not be billed for our legal fees. Depending on your circumstances you may have to repay the Legal Disbursements (such as medical report costs fees and court filing fees) that we paid. Those circumstances rarely occur.
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