If you have had an accident which has left you in pain or worse, without the ability to do what you did before, then you really ought to be making a claim for compensation. The first thing you have to do is find a solicitor that can help you to be successful in your claim. Obviously you are looking at injury compensation so you have to find a personal injury lawyer. This shouldn't be too difficult in itself, because there are so many available on the internet, but you have to make sure you find the right one. Try to find someone who has experience of the sort of claim that you are going to make, and you could also do yourself a big favour by searching for no win no fee solicitors. the benefit here is obviously that you won't have too pay anything up front, which will mean that if the case ends up being a long one, you won't start to accrue a huge debt to your solicitor. On top of this, they probably won't even need any money from you at the end of the case because they will seek their payment from the other side. Another aspect of using a no win no fee solicitor is that the only way that they will make any money themselves is by winning your case so you can be comfortable in the assumption that they are working overtime to make sure that they win your claim. Most injury claims are dealt with very quickly and you should have your money pretty quickly.