SPECIAL DAMAGE CALCULATIONS - CATASTROPHIC INJURIES - SPECIAL CARE CASES - FUTURE LOSS - FATAL ACCIDENT CASES - OGDEN TABLES CALCULATIONS

Special Damage Calculations can cause their own problems.
Changing rates of statutory benefits and an irregular history of income can make for a time-consuming exercise.
When we begin to look at Catastrophic Injury cases the problem adopts mammoth proportions. The needs of the brain-damaged, spinal injury, and loss-of-limb clients are great indeed. Often, life expectancy has not been diminished and the preparation of a statement setting out their requirements is a serious and difficult task.
The application of ‘The Ogden Tables’ can be a nightmare when calculating continuing future pecuniary loss and consequential expense.

Out of date up-dates can cost a Personal Injury Claimant £60,000 or more!!
Make sure that it doesn’t happen on one of your files

In cases such as these, PAPER TRAIL SOLUTIONS has secured the co-operation of Medical and Nursing Consultants who, having perused the medical evidence and consulted with the immediate family will set about the arduous task of assessing the expense of private nursing care, the cost of so many non NHS items and medical and nursing aids. When appropriate, they will work in conjunction with our Physician Consultant in Pain Management.

These costs are assessed by a major nursing agency using BNA rates. Immediately, as and when these rates change, we will automatically recalculate this head of claim entirely free of charge enabling you to attend Court (or settle a case) safe in the knowledge that your figures are up to date. Never again will you have to wait for up-dated supplements to arrive too late to be of any use to you or your client.

The selection of mechanical aids which will go some way to improving the quality of life, both of the victim and the immediate carers, will be considered by an Occupational Therapist.

Where required, estimates will be obtained for the cost of house conversion and for the purchase or adaptation of motorised transport, its’ maintenance, servicing and replacement. An Architect will advise on the feasibility of conversion and, in appropriate cases, prepare plans and will liaise with the relevant local authority. Building contractors will estimate for the work and, if required, carry out the work of conversion
In these days of computerised technology there are so many ways in which the victim can maintain some level of independence. Voice-operated media units and other computerised aids can make an enormous difference to patient and carer and can bring some pleasure into an otherwise destroyed life. We have an IT specialist on hand to ensure that these variable requirements are fully satisfied.

Avoid the situation where a fee-earner, pressed for time, is beaten down on a point involving, for example, loss of pension. Where appropriate and in accordance with the suggestions contained within the notes to ‘The Ogden Tables’, we will have used one of the country’s most respected firms of Actuaries whose opinion will count. Don’t rely on a builder’s estimate alone. Our Architects, will have produced a report that you can rely on in the face of the most fierce Insurance Company negotiator.

Every such case is different and we will treat it as such. You can rest assured in the knowledge that you will be able to maximise your Special Damages in the areas where they are most needed.
A detailed, multi-discipline, report will be correlated which will include schedules of the various continuing future pecuniary loss and consequential expenses, all calculated by use of The Ogden Tables.

A good boxer will ‘train hard and fight easy’; you can do the same by using Paper Trail Solutions to prepare your Special Damage Calculations.

download a specimen report:
ptslaw_specimen_report.pdf (88kb)

PAPER TRAIL SOLUTIONS really does have the solution to your problems in this tremendously important area of Personal Injury Litigation.

Our consultants include:

legal and accountancy

medical / pain management

nursing / occupational & communications therapists

architect / qs

rehabilitation engineering / information technology

 

All our consultants are accredited members of their respective societies, colleges or institutes.