At Hudgell Solicitors our military injury experts can assess the details of your claim and advise you on which course of legal action to take for the maximum compensation award available.
Civil negligence claims are not limited to a maximum compensation amount, unlike the AFCS scheme, and can therefore often lead to higher awards. These claims also consider loss of past earnings, future earnings capacity and pension loss amongst other heads of loss.
We therefore strongly advise using our expert team of military injury lawyers should you be considering applying directly to the AFCS scheme as 30% of claims without legal support are rejected.
Our expertise is provided on a no win no fee basis and we will ensure your application to the AFCS clearly evidences your injuries, and the impact of them.
For the more serious hearing loss injuries achieving a certain level of damages, claimants can also be awarded a tax-free monthly payment (Guaranteed Income Payments) paid from the end of military service for life, which is calculated as a percentage of their salary.
Our team of expert military injury solicitors can also help in contesting compensation offers made through the AFCS, as we can advise on the level of damages which we feel should be offered, and whether we feel awards should be contested.
We can also request ‘exceptional reviews’ of (AFCS) damages awards when a military injury unexpectedly deteriorates, or should further problems develop beyond those anticipated, years after an award has been made.