Injury lawyers are usually categorized as personal injury lawyers who give legal representation to individuals who alledge injury either at their place of work or within a public building or space. The lawyers generally work on a no win, no fee basis and as such their is a mass market for their services. Some of threse personal injury lawyers will take a cut (fee) from the compensation given on winning the case, however others claim their fees as costs from the negligent (losing) side.
The personal injury market is worth billions throught the United States and accross Europe. Many critics of the 'no win, no fee' system have dubbed these firms of lawyers as 'ambulance chasers'.
The vast majority of these personal injury claims are over alledge accidents at the place of work of the individual. With such issues as defective or dangerous machinery, slips or falls from gantrys or ladders. The Health & Safety executive of the UK believe that individual employees stand to lose around six hundred million pounds a year of reduced salary and other expenditure due to an accident at work.
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