Our success in getting CICA compensation increased
We have helped numerous clients with getting their CICA compensation increased.
Awards of compensation made under the CICA Scheme do not always properly compensate the victims of crime. For instance, awards sometimes fail to take into account psychological injury arising from the crime. And while the CICA does not pay for the first 28 weeks of lost earning, you may be entitled to receive payment from week 29 onwards at the rate of SSP. This is often missed out when the CICA make an offer.
CICA compensation offers can also fail to cover the cost of adaptations to your home or the cost of care to help with your bodily functions or meal preparation. And where you need supervision to avoid danger to yourself or someone else then you may be entitled to recover an additional amount of compensation to cover those costs. Again, this is frequently left out of CICA compensation calculations.
Our expert CICA lawyers have been hugely successful in getting CICA compensation increased. Here are some examples of the success we have had in recovering higher awards for our clients:
- Increasing CICA compensation from £11,000 to £44,755 on review.
- Recovering £241,901 on review after an initial offer of £22,000 had been made.
- Getting an initial offer of £16,500 increased to £181,236 on appeal.
- Recovering £79,171 on appeal after an initial offer had been made of just £2,000.
- Getting an initial offer of £16,500 increased to £174,622 on appeal.
In these five cases alone we recovered a staggering combined total of over £653,000 extra compensation for our clients.