Personal injury: Making the money go the distance

PERSONAL INJURY

Nicola Brittain
clock • 8 min read

Clients with financial settlements after catastrophic injuries need the best advice they can get. Nicola Brittain, asks: is this a growing market for advisers?

Those offering financial services to the personal injury and clinical negligence markets have a duty of care beyond that normally required from a financial adviser. People with catastrophic injuries are often awarded large sums of money but they must be managed to cover medical care and, potentially, life-long disability. This is a specialist and rewarding area of work, but is it a growing market, and what do advisers need to do to become an expert in the area? Like other personal injury advisers, Robin Bailey at Chase de Vere said it is difficult to gauge whether the number of awards...

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