A rejected. personal. injury case. needn t be. A write-off. Recoup the fees you thought you wouldn t see.

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1 A rejected persoal ijury case eed t be A write-off Recoup the fees you thought you would t see.

2 We are proud of our growig reputatio i successfully takig over rejected cases, ad the relatioships we have built with law firms.

3 What s i it for you? Like you, we re lawyers. We recogise that it is ot always possible or practical to bill cliets for everythig we do for them. Time spet o iitial cosultatios, assessig merits, ad o phoe calls ad s may seem irrecoverable whe a claim is t formally take o or whe the file is later closed without case resolutio. Write-offs ca quickly add up. That s where we ca help by deliverig a simple, othig-to-lose way of retrievig your fees for the legitimate work you ve doe. It meas that your work-i-progress records will drastically improve ad you ll have better target attaimet. Ad, as well as boostig your firm s operatioal efficiecy ad productivity, it gives cliets - ad their claims - aother chace. Who are we? Bakers Persoal Ijury Solicitors is a specialist claimat persoal ijury law firm based i Hampshire ad Surrey. We act for thousads of cliets who have bee rejected by other solicitors because their claims do ot meet those firms acceptace criteria. I 2000 we lauched a service for law firms ad claims compaies i Eglad ad Wales. It s rooted i providig access to justice, ad it makes soud commercial sese for the firms of solicitors ad CMCs we work with. Our service We will take o the persoal ijury cases you are uable, or choose ot, to ru because: the claim does t fit your firm s risk profile limitatio is immiet quatum could be too low fraud is alleged a legal expeses isurer has refused or withdraw cover. There could be other reasos for decidig that a case is t for you. We re offerig a alterative to closig the file ad writig off your fees. It s a secure lie for the work you have udertake but caot bill. It s icome you would otherwise forego.

4 Our process We ll cosider every case, whatever stage it s at. 1. You trasfer the claim or the lead to us. 2. We ll review it. 3. If a claim is viable, we ll take over its hadlig. 4. If the case is successful, you ll be reimbursed your fees. If it s usuccessful the you lose othig. Oce you have haded your file over to us there should t be aythig else for you to do. If you have ay queries or cocers the your assiged lawyer at Bakers will hadle them professioally ad efficietly. They ll keep you updated o the progress of each of your cases so that you ca maage your iteral fiacial reportig. Our team We have a team of expert lawyers, a case maagemet IT system, ad processes dedicated to makig this service work simply ad smoothly. At its heart is our Specialist Ivestigatios Uit. This is led by two former isurace claims ispectors with more tha 60 years combied experiece i assessig claims from the defece perspective. It s ivaluable expertise which eables us to fid ways of pursuig, ad wiig, claims. We also have dedicated teams specialisig i each of the followig: limitatio issues highways claims low quatum claims MIB claims alleged fraud complex litigatio serious ijuries idustrial disease cliical egligece Together, we have the expertise to hadle the full rage of persoal ijury cases ad to recover the fees you eared.

5 Take a Highways claim Sectio 58 is almost always alleged by the local authority. Do you close your file immediately ad write off your fees? You could refer these cases to our team. We kow every local authority s ispectio regime ad whether or ot the statutory defece will bear out. Why us? Our team of persoal ijury specialists is well equipped for the challege. We re highly experieced i idetifyig opportuities i rejected claims. More tha that, we are geared up to takig o those cases which, for oe reaso or aother, just are t suited to beig ru elsewhere. Uderpiig all of this is a respect for those law firms that work with us. It is fudametal to what we do, who we are ad why our service works. Strog success rate We re proud of our growig reputatio i successfully takig over rejected cases, ad of the relatioships we have built with law firms across Eglad ad Wales. We have recovered fees i some ear impossible cases which we have take o over the years. As well as producig beefits for us ad for you, cliets with geuie claims get the outcomes they deserve.

6 CASE STUDY Low Prospects Ia Ludigto fractured the tibial plateau of his right leg while workig at a freight statio i Ket. His solicitors closed their file without brigig the claim as they believed he did ot have ay reasoable prospects of success. The case was referred to us three moths before limitatio. Our egotiatios resulted i the isurers admittig legal liability, ad the cliet recoverig 297,000 gross i compesatio. CASE STUDY Limitatio issues Lee Bullock was seriously ijured whe he was hit by a elderly motorist. Despite the driver s legal blame beig clear-cut, the case had ru for five years without beig settled. Whe we took it over from a bakrupt solicitor, there were urget court deadlies to meet ad a cliet who was desperate to see the case resolved. It took us just three moths to egotiate a settlemet of over 350,000 to compesate him for his serious ijuries ad losses. We recovered all of the profit costs for the Receiver as well.

7 CASE STUDY Fraud alleged agaist claimat Mr S was ivolved i a road traffic accidet o the approach to the M4. A vehicle had cut him up, forcig him to brake. Mr S s car was hit from behid, ijurig him ad his passeger. The third party isurers alleged a staged accidet ad that Mr S was ot i the car. They also deied that there was a vehicle travellig i frot of the vehicle that Mr S was drivig. They reported Mr S to the police. At that poit, Mr S s solicitors said that they were ot prepared to pursue the persoal ijury matter. We took the case o. Our team member iterviewed Mr S ad obtaied all the documets eeded to support his claim. Court proceedigs were the issued. Three moths later, the matter was settled o a 100% basis. It became apparet that the third party isurers had ever spoke to their isured despite reportig our cliet to the police ad makig the serious allega - tios that they had. To fid out more about our bespoke rejected cases service, please cotact: Julia Oldfield o / Julia.oldfield@bakerssolicitors.com

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