| If you've ever been involved in a road accident, | | | | daytime TV. But letting it slide can damage your |
| then you will know that the suffering doesn't end | | | | chances of compensation, delay a final settlement |
| once you've left hospital, been patched up and | | | | and even lead to you being blamed for an |
| reached the safety of home. | | | | accident that may not have been your fault. |
| Because it's then that you have to start dealing | | | | Known faults in the system |
| with the aftermath. The paperwork, the phone | | | | It isn't as if the faults of the system are |
| calls and of course the dreaded people from | | | | unknown. A claim from a road accident takes an |
| insurance and their lawyers. | | | | average two years to settle, according to the |
| There are lots of important decisions to make, | | | | Association of British Insurers. If your |
| and correspondence to deal with just when you | | | | compensation case is related to an accident at |
| barely feel like you can manage to understand | | | | work, it takes nearer three years. |