School Injury Compensation Claims: Keep Schooling Hassle Free

It is unfortunate though, but you must have witnessed some sort of school injury taking place with children while they are at school. Normally school is situated at a location where you might have to commute each day. It could be a school bus or private vehicle in which your children go to school. While at school, most kids venture out in open playground and tend to make most of it by playing with other students. During such encounters, they often suffer injuries. Sometimes these injuries could be life threatening requiring you to take good number of measures to ensure proper treatment of your kid.

As long as injury sustained is accidental in nature, it doesn’t pain you much. You seem to readily accept it as a misfortune. But when same injury is the handy work of someone else, it doesn’t give you pain alone. You find it helpless and agonizing to deal with. Remember – under law prevailing in UK, if your kid has suffered any injury which was because of no fault of your kid, you can lodge a school injury compensation claims. In most of such injuries, it has been found that injury resulted just because of silly mistake or negligence of someone else.

If you ask any school accident lawyer he/she will tell you, most of these claims can be categorized into:

• Slipping or tripping that has taken place within the school grounds or school building.
  
• The injury has resulted from defective equipment such as desks, chairs or play equipment.
  
• Medical examinations have confirmed asbestos within the school building were the real culprit and your kid has developed an asbestos related disease.
  
• Where you kid was asked to carry or lift heavy objects without proper equipment or training.
  
• Injury was because of a sports accident.
  
• The kid has developed or contracted food poisoning.
  

The law gives right to every parent or guardian of a kid who has been injured, to make claim for accident compensation. You are entitled to do this on behalf of your injured child when your kid attains maturity. You need to make the claim within lapse of 3 years from the date of child becoming a major. So, ultimately the maximum time limit to lodge your school accident compensation is 21 years from the date your kid suffers injury.

Also remember, where parents were involved, for instance, if father was driving the car which hits another car, in such a case father cannot file a claim because, in law he is treated as a 'litigation friend'.  And as a litigation friend, your identity should be independent. Therefore, it can be done by the mother, a grandparent or other close relative.