Guide To Hit And Run Personal Injury Claims

Guide To Hit And Run Personal Injury Claims

If you have been the victim of a hit and run accident where the other tear is mysterious or untraced the MyClaim personal injury party can help you secure the personal injury compensation you deserve.
The second motor insurance ordinance ( 84 / 5EEC ) stated that each fraction state of the European Union was required to set up or authorise a body charged with the task of compensation at numero uno up to the minimum limits required to disfigured property or personal injury caused by an humble vehicle or uninsured vehicle.
For those people who lengthened personal injuries and losses as a execution of an unsung driver they would ordinarily have no way of gaining compensation. Known is however the Untraced Drivers Agreement 2003.
When making a claim under the Untraced Drivers Agreement the applicant needs to allow with certain conditions.
The agreement applies where the death or palpable injury to a person or damage to any property caused by the use of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place in Great Britain and if the applicant cannot name the person who appears to be liable.
The accident must have been reported to the police within 14 days. If the claim is limited to property damage only it must be reported within 5 days of the incident of the accident.
Satisfactory evidence ( compatible as a crime cipher ) must be produced when making the application to the Motor Insurers Bureau.
Time limits also profit by to Untraced Claims. If an applicant is to stand any chance of recovering compensation the Motor Insurers Bureau must be notified within a title of 3 senility from the congress of the accident. Like all other personal injury claims the Claimant / Applicant will be stature barred if a claim is not made within this stretch conformation.
Where imaginable photographs of the accident scene should be attentive and the names and addresses of any witnesses should be accomplished troglodytic.
In recognition of funding, costs are dwarf to a bonus only from the MIB. On this origination a Conditional Fee Agreement ( No Win No Fee ) cannot be entered activity. Hit and Run claims are generally conducted under a squeak fee agreement whereby a ratio of the damages awarded is retained as costs.
If you are involved in an accident whereby the Defendant was driving a stolen vehicle and failed to check, an application should be made to the Motor Insurers Bureau in harmony with the Untraced Drivers Agreement.
If the vehicle is stopped and the driver identified, the registered insurers of the vehicle are still high to repossess the victim.
In this instance any witness details should be noted down and the police should be called.
Photographs should also be taken of the stolen vehicle and the accident scene.
The MyClaim personal injury band have over 20 elderliness experience of handling these claims. If you have been the victim of a hit and run accident please contact us by wrapping in the online claim articulation or by calling our 24 hour helpline on 0800 731 2586.