How Long Does a Road Traffic Accident Claim Take?

Factors affecting the length of a claim

The differences of each individual case determine how long it will take for your compensation claim to actually convert itself into money in your pocket. Though you may feel that it is a simple case and you are undoubtedly due compensation, there are factors that can complicate matters and cause a delay. The two major aspects that are fundamental to any claim and need to be definitively established are responsibility and medical confirmation of the full extent of your injuries.

• Establishing responsibility – not everyone is honourable, and not everyone even sees the same version of right and wrong upon which an idea of honour is based. Though it may be completely the other person’s fault that you came to an injury, they may not accede to responsibility. In the case of the other driver behaving in this way, your solicitor will need to establish through other means that they are responsible. This could take some time.
• Extent of your injuries – it is generally accepted that the symptoms of your injury should be let subside before a medical report is compiled, in the case of symptoms that show no sign of abating at least 3 to 6 months should be allowed to pass.

Duration of road traffic accident claim

Road traffic accident compensation claims tend to take between 6 to 12 months to come to fruition, though, depending on the circumstances mentioned above, it could take even longer. Do not begin a compensation claim thinking that it is a swift process, however straightforward you view your case to be.