Fatal Accidents Claims - Tips & Tactics for Personal Injury Lawyers

Introduction

The area of fatal accident claims is a difficult and complex one. Often family members, especially children, are left without a breadwinner. Ensuring that their claims are correctly valued and properly pursued is essential.

This webinar aims to give a detailed understanding and thorough working knowledge of The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934 (claims by the estate of the deceased) and The Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (financial dependency and service dependency claims).

This webinar will highlight tips and tactics allowing practitioners to identify potential heads of loss and the evidence needed to support such claims.

What You Will Learn

This short webinar will cover the following:

• The basic framework for a claim
• Types of claims
• Issues and complexities that often arise
• How to build evidence in support of income dependency and service dependency claims
• Income dependency claims
• The loss of income
• Prospects of earned income
• The possibility of future promotions
• Calculating the dependency (with and without children)
• Service Dependency Claims
• The loss of gratuitous services provided by the deceased
• Childcare
• Household work
• DIY
• Gardening
• Brief overviews of new and leading cases such as Knauer v Ministry of Justice

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 17th July 2025

Alternatively, you can gain access to this webinar and 1,700+ others via the MBL Webinar Subscription. Please email webinarsubscription@mblseminars.com for more details.