Calculating Loss of Income in Personal Injury Claims

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane Explain How Loss of Income is Calculated in Personal Injury Claims.

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane Explain How Economic Loss is Calculated in Personal Injury Claims. No Win No Fee Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane.

We have already discussed what compensation entitlements there are in a personal injury claim in our post entitled, “How Much Compensation Will I Receive for My Personal Injury Claim?”. One of the areas of compensation, or what are termed “Heads of Damage”, in personal injury claims is economic loss. This is a claim for the loss of income that a person suffers because of their injury.  The claim for economic loss includes both past and future income lost because of injury.

In the majority of personal injury claims, the claim for economic loss provides the largest amount of compensation in a personal injury claim. This is because it is a very important element of any personal injury claim. If injury impedes a person’s ability to earn an income, then this will seriously compromise their ability to support themselves, and in many cases, their families, into the future.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Explain How Economic Loss is Calculated in a Personal Injury Claim

How economic loss is calculated is basically the same for all personal injury claims in Queensland, whether your injury is from a car accident, workplace accident, medical malpractice, or generally because of the negligence or wrongful actions of another.Continue reading

Slip & Fall at Bowling Alley Gives $157K Damages

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane explain slip & fall personal injury claims. No Win No Fee Lawyers in Qld. Free legal advice 24/7.

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane explain slip and fall injuries on business premises. No Win No Fee Lawyers providing services throughout Qld. FREE legal advice 24/7.

I was recently having a game of bowls at a popular ten pin bowling establishment with my young nieces when I inadvertently stepped over the fowl line onto the very slippery alley surface, slipping & falling to the amusement of my competitors! And to add insult to injury, I managed to hit nothing at all!

Fortunately, although a bit sore, I didn’t suffer any serious injuries, but had I done so, then the bowling alley would have been liable for my injuries & any loss and damage I sustained as a result.

Slip & Fall the result of Negligence & Bowling Alley Liable to Pay Injury Compensation

This is because the bowling alley was negligent, and placed me at risk of injury. Why is this ? Firstly, the bowling alley had no clear marking of the fowl line indicating where the slippery alley surface began. There was also no signage warning of the danger whatsoever. There was no warning not to step over the fowl line as it was excessively slippery and could cause injury and neither was there any verbal warning of this when purchasing our game of bowls. The lighting in the area was also very poor, making the delineation between the fowl line and the slippery alley difficult to see. And as an  amateur at the sport of ten pin bowling, I was clearly unaware of the dangers as well as susceptible to crossing the line in my amateurish attempts to bowl a strike and required this warning.Continue reading

No Win No Fee Lawyers or No Win No Pay Lawyers?

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane Explain No Win No Fee Legal Services

Personal Injury Lawyers Gold Coast & Brisbane explain no win no fee & no win no pay legal services.

Often you will hear people trying to remember the term for “no win no fee lawyers” & they will refer to “no win no pay lawyers” or “no win no bill lawyers”, or even, “no win zero fees lawyers”. It is funny to hear of some of the various terminology used & in the end, they will usually Google it !

What’s the Difference between “No Win No Fee” & “No Win No Pay”?

The most commonly used term to describe this legal service is “no win no fee”, but it can be called many things. Basically, there’s no difference between the terms, “no win no fee lawyer”, “no win no pay lawyer”, “no win no bill lawyer” or no win zero fees lawyer” etc.- they are all referring to the same type of service. They are just different ways of referring to lawyers who run legal cases and do not charge their clients until the end of their case & only if the case is successful.Continue reading

Secretly Recording Conversations – Is it Legal?

Gold Coast and Brisbane No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers, explain secretly recording conversations

Gold Coast and Brisbane Personal Injury Lawyers, No Win No Fee, explain the legalities of secret recordings in Qld.

No Win No Fee Personal Injury Lawyers are often met with the situation where a client has secretly recorded  conversations they want to use in support of their personal injury claim. The question then has to be asked, is that recording legal?

If All Participants to a Conversation Agree it is Always Legal to Record

Obviously if all the parties have agreed to the conversation or meeting being recorded, then there is no need to question legality. In Australia and all States, including Queensland, it is legal to record where all the parties involved are agreeable. However, what about secret recordings?

The laws that apply to secret recordings of conversations are different in each State.Continue reading