Motorcycle Injury Compensation

If you are involved in a motor acci­dent whilst rid­ing or being a pas­sen­ger on a motor­cy­cle then clearly due to the lack of pro­tec­tion motor­cy­cles pro­vides the chances of sus­tain­ing an injury, par­tic­u­larly a severe injury are greatly enhanced. The laws in rela­tion to enti­tle­ments and also time lim­i­ta­tions vary in each State and Ter­ri­tory and it is there­fore essen­tial that you obtain legal advice by today con­tact­ing compensationinjury.com.au

Because of the sever­ity of the injuries asso­ci­ated with motor­cy­cle acci­dents which can cause per­ma­nent dam­age or even paral­y­sis it is essen­tial to seek the right legal advice. By involv­ing a spe­cial­ist per­sonal injury lawyer from the start of your claim, you can ensure that all rel­e­vant time lim­its for lodg­ing and report­ing the inci­dent are met along with receiv­ing full and detailed advice on poten­tial enti­tle­ments, what doc­u­men­ta­tion is required to sup­port the your claim, etc which can all greatly affect the size of the set­tle­ment finally agreed.

If you were not wholly to blame for the acci­dent, you should be able to pur­sue a claim, even on a lim­ited level if you are found par­tially at fault for the acci­dent. Obvi­ously if you are a pil­lion pas­sen­ger then, as a rule, you would be con­sid­ered an inno­cent party and enti­tled to pur­sue a claim. Also in some States and Ter­ri­to­ries they oper­ate a ‘no fault’ scheme so even if you were found to be respon­si­ble for the acci­dent you may be still enti­tled to claim, another very good rea­son to obtain infor­ma­tion and advice by con­tact­ing compensationinjury.com.au.

Did the acci­dent occur whilst trav­el­ling to or from or in con­nec­tion with work? If the answer to this ques­tion is ‘yes’ then there might also be cover for com­pen­sa­tion and reim­burse­ment of costs and losses under the rel­e­vant Work­ers Com­pen­sa­tion leg­is­la­tion in place. Again all the States and Ter­ri­to­ries have dif­fer­ent cover and enti­tle­ments and you should today con­tact compensationinjury.com.au.

Get a Copy of the Acci­dent Report

After you’ve noti­fied police that you have been involved in an acci­dent you should remain on the scene until they arrive, at which time they will begin their inves­ti­ga­tion. The best way to iden­tify the cause of an acci­dent and to prove your right to injury com­pen­sa­tion for your motor­bike acci­dent injuries is to get an offi­cial acci­dent report from the police. Police inves­ti­ga­tors are trained in prop­erly analysing an acci­dent and report­ing what occurred and why.

Notify Your Insur­ance Company

Inform your insur­ance com­pany that you’ve been involved in an acci­dent. In cases of motor­cy­cle acci­dent injury it’s vital that you inform your insur­ance agency expe­di­tiously and accord­ing to your insur­ance pol­icy in order to receive the full cover you are enti­tled to.

Also you should imme­di­ately notify the rel­e­vant CTP (Green Slip) Insur­ance Com­pany the vehi­cle respon­si­ble and com­plete the nec­es­sary paper­work. Please note that there are strict time lim­its in place to lodg­ing such a claim, which vary for State to State.

Seek Advice from a Motor­cy­cle Injury Lawyer

Deal­ing with insur­ance com­pa­nies and indi­vid­u­als when seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion for your motor­cy­cle acci­dent injury can be dif­fi­cult and slow-going at times. Insur­ance com­pa­nies will often drag their feet and offer to pay only the small­est amounts of com­pen­sa­tion for your injuries if you don’t have legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion to help you.

Insur­ance com­pa­nies have lawyers on their side and so should you, if you’ve been in a car acci­dent and suf­fered injuries then hir­ing a car acci­dent injury lawyer may be the best way for you to get the car acci­dent com­pen­sa­tion that you deserve. An expe­ri­enced lawyer will be able to review your case, cal­cu­late what your total com­pen­sa­tion should aver­age out to be, and rep­re­sent you both in and out of court.

We pro­vide expert legal advice and rep­re­sen­ta­tion for motor­cy­cle injury claims. If you require assis­tance with a com­pen­sa­tion claim after a motor­bike acci­dent, con­tact us for a free con­sul­ta­tion — we offer our ser­vices on a No Win No Fee basis. We pro­vide access to spe­cial­ist lawyers who pro­vide the right advice to ensure that you receive the full com­pen­sa­tion pay­out that you are enti­tled to as a result of your motor­cy­cle acci­dent claim.