Victims of Criminal Injury
with claim4injury.com
Here at Claim4injury we offer our help to anybody in the UK who have been subect to a criminal injury. All victims of criminal injuries are eligable to receive compensation! So why not call us free and ask us what you may be entitled too.
Crime can have serious financial consequences for its victims and many people suffer long-term hardship. Compensation can help with an individual’s recovery.
Claim4injury can help with criminal injuries compensation claims.
If you have been injured as a result of a violent crime you may be entitled to compensation payment under the Government’s CICA Scheme. This is a public funded scheme established to administer compensation to the victims of a crime of violence. The amount of compensation awards for eligible victims are based on the scheme tariff of injuries and additionally where qualifying for financial losses and expenses. Injuries sustained have to be directly attributed to a crime or one of the allowable causes.
Crimes of violence usually involve a physical attack on the person e.g. assault, wounding and sexual offences. Within the scope of the scheme mental trauma injury sustained by a person may be considered where it can be established that a crime of violence or other allowable cause has taken place.
An application to claim for compensation must be made and submitted within 2 years from the date of the incident causing injury. The incident must have been reported to the police without reasonable delay.
In general the injuries must have been sustained and the crime must have been committed in Great Britain (England, Scotland or Wales). The scheme includes the Scottish islands and excludes the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland. Special rules apply for injuries sustained in the Channel Tunnel, on certain offshore installations and also on British ships, hovercrafts and aircraft.