Negligence Claims
PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM SOLICITORS SWINDON
Negligence is more than a mistake. More than lost opportunities, it represents a lack of care that causes financial and physical harm to the victim. This is even more poignant where you have entrusted your affairs to a professional.
Basics of negligence
Before understanding how negligence applies to professionals, we need to understand the basics of negligence law. Proving negligence consists of three steps:
- A legal duty to take care owed by a person, persons or an organisation towards others
- A breach of that duty
- Loss suffered as a result of the breach
Professional negligence
In many cases of professional negligence, it should not be too taxing to show the existence of a duty of care. If you ask your solicitor to modify your will and he agrees to, yet fails to do so before your death, the beneficiaries in your will are potentially owed a duty of care.
However, in other cases, particularly medical negligence, it can be difficult to show the existence of a duty of care. In medical negligence, a duty of care will not be imposed where the medical professional can back up his or her decision with a reasonable body of competent medical opinion which supports it. Rather than assuming that such a body of opinion does not exist, you should clarify your case with a solicitor. We can refer to previous cases and predict likely outcomes.
Types of professionals that are commonly dealt with in negligence claims include:
- Solicitors
- Barristers
- Accountants
- Architects
- Surveyors and valuers
- Estate agents
- Doctors and nurses
- Dentists
Dealing with insurers
In many cases of professional negligence, you will deal with insurers. It is in an insurer’s interest to lessen your claim by as much as possible, and if they believe you have a case, they might offer to settle with you, albeit on terms favourable to them.
Our professional negligence solicitors are well aware of the tactics insurers use. We will represent your interests in the best way possible by not allowing you to be subject to an insurer’s bullying ways and by helping you get the compensation you deserve.
Helping you get the compensation you deserve
Our Swindon professional negligence solicitors strive to provide you with value for money by delivering a professional, tailored service backed-up by years of expertise and success. As all our solicitors are based in Swindon, you can be assured of a convenient and relevant service that saves you time, money and effort. To find out what our professional negligence solicitors in Swindon can do to help, please get in touch at your earliest convenience.