My five year old son was injured when a car hit my husband’s bike. My son was strapped into an approved child safety seat on the back of the bike. Is my son entitled to personal injury compensation?
Your son is entitled to personal injury compensation for injuries sustained in the accident.
Your son is also entitled to make a claim for the special benefit that is available to children under 16 years of age who were residents in New South Wales at the time of the accident. This special benefit is available regardless of who was at fault for the accident and includes the payment of the following expenses:
- Hospital, medical and pharmaceutical expenses;
- Rehabilitation expenses;
- Respite care expenses;
- Attendant care expenses.
As the accident was the fault of the driver of the car, your son is entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation for his injuries under the motor accidents compensation scheme within six months of the date of the accident.
The compensation that your son may be entitled to receive includes:
- Compensation for economic loss; and
- Compensation for non-economic loss (more commonly referred to as ‘Pain and Suffering’) if your son has suffered a whole person impairment of more than10% as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident.
As the parent of a child injured in a motor vehicle accident, you need to make sure that your son receives the maximum amount of compensation to which he is entitled for his accident. The best way to ensure this happens is to speak to the expert compensation lawyers at Schreuder Partners Compensation Lawyers who have over 20 years experience in handling personal injury compensation claims.
We understand the worry and stress when your child has suffered an injury in a motor vehicle accident and we consider it our job to take away some of this stress, by ensuring that your son receives the maximum amount of financial compensation for his injuries.
The motor vehicle accident compensation scheme can be complex and confusing, particularly in relation to children injured in motor vehicle accidents. Our expert compensation lawyers deal with motor accident compensation claims every day and it is because of our specialisation in the area of personal injury law that we know exactly how to make the system work for our clients in as short a time-frame as possible.
To ensure that your son is assisted by the best compensation legal team in New South Wales you need to call us for a confidential, no obligation discussion on your son’s rights and entitlements to motor accidents compensation.
No comments:
Post a Comment