hello there my name is Thierry gari from Terry Gauri and company solicitors I'm a
solicitor obviously this short video is just a general sort of overview of
personal injuries in Ireland and the law surrounding us on how to make it same
how what the procedure is in relation to the personal injuries board and so on in
this video so I'm just going to cover what is a person injury how the injury
is bored in Ireland works what you need to make it claimed for a personal injury
the critical steps in the process so let's get started what is a personal
injury well the definition of a personal injury personal injury for the purposes
of the making a claim under the Civil Liability Act of 1961 is very very wide
and varied basically injuries to any part of the body from head to toe
literally will be comprised in a definition of a personal injury the most
common types of injuries are neck back and broken limbs they can also include
the psychiatric and psychological injuries such as post-traumatic stress
and depression and the most common causes of injury are
accidents on the road road traffic claims accidents at work or accidents in
public the injuries are almost always caused by the commission of a wrong and
in the vast majority of cases the wrong question is negligence and/or breach of
duty including statutory duty so the first thing you need to do if you've
suffered a personal injury is the contact the respondent in other words
the person against whom you are going to make your team and who you hold liable
for the injury you've suffered ideally you should contact them within two
months of your accident or injury you need to submit your application then to
the injuries board you'll need a medical report from your GP you need fee of 50
euros form a from the injuries board must be completed and you can download
that from the injuries board website and then you have two years from the
date of the accident to make your claim there are exceptions to this time limit
however particularly in the case of minors in other words people under the
age of 18 what happens next well injuries board and contact the
respondent provided of course that your application is acceptable to the
injuries board and it's properly filled out and so on the respondent has given
details of your application including the medical report that you've submitted
if the respondent agrees to the injuries board making an assessment of damages
within 90 days well then the injuries board will go ahead and make the
assessment and we'll put a monetary value on the injuries that you've
suffered if the respondent does not agree then the injuries board will issue
a letter to you or your solicitor a letter of authorization and this allows
you then to bring legal proceedings to hold him or her responsible for your
injury if the respondent does agree then he and his board make their assessment
to send it to you and the respondent the if the respondent on yourself agree in
relation to the amount being orders well then the injuries board issue an order
to pay if either you or the respondent don't agree on the amount then the board
will issue as I say a letter of authorization and you must bring legal
proceedings in the court system to say my name is Terry Gauri I'm of Terry
Korean company solicitors you can contact me through the telephone details
on the screen that you see there the mobile is probably the handiest want to
get me you can also get me on the email Terry a business and legal that I II and
if you want to find out more information about making a personal injury claim how
the whole system works how that personal injuries board works and so on and so
forth just stop by my website business and legal Gauri and just take on the
personal injuries link that you see and it'll bring you to a good bit more
information about this whole thing or how the whole thing works thanks for
watching