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No Win No Fee Professional Negligence Lawyers Brisbane & QLD Wide

An experienced professional negligence lawyer provides legal advice for professional negligence claims when a professional fails their duty of care owed by law, and you suffer a loss. It’s reasonable to expect reliable expert guidance when you seek professional advice for your business, finances, investments, or personal affairs.

You can seek compensation when you have suffered loss because a professional provides incorrect advice. In this case, our QLD and Brisbane professional liability lawyers explain your rights and entitlements. A professional negligence claim is generally made against the insurer of the person or business who failed you.

Splatt Lawyers’ professional indemnity legal services are funded on a no win, no fee basis. It’s free to be sure, so call now: 1800 860 777 or email us >

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What is Professional Negligence?

Generally speaking, professional services must be delivered with reasonable care and skill, by the widely accepted standards of their profession. Hence, professional negligence occurs when a professional fails to exercise a reasonable degree of care, which can cause you to experience financial loss or damages. In this case, you can seek restitution by making a professional negligence claim.

If this is your situation, speak with a professional negligence lawyer to learn your right to justice. Splatt’s team of Queensland compensation lawyers will explain your entitlements and recommended next steps. Call now for a free case review: 1800 700 125

QLD Lawyers for Negligence Matters

Experienced professional negligence lawyers provide advice for the legal process and your rights.

Can I Make a Professional Negligence Claim?

In Australia, you can claim professional negligence compensation when a professional (person or business) gives you bad advice that causes you to suffer financial loss. Most professional negligence claims relate to:

  • Incorrect Financial Advice
  • Bad Legal Advice
  • Misleading professional advice
  • Accounting mistakes
  • Wrong property evaluations
  • Wrong farming or agricultural advice

In most cases, the Civil Liability Act and Civil Liability Amendment (Personal Responsibility) Act give you the legal right to seek damages, but to have a successful outcome, you must prove the following:

  1. The professional owed you a duty of care.
  2. They failed their legal obligation
  3. You suffered financial damage due to their duty breach

Note: you cannot claim compensation when you have not had a financial loss, even when the service provided was negligent.

Time Limits for Professional Negligence Claims

The Limitation of Actions Act 1974 (QLD) outlines the legal limitations for actions. The law can stop you from lodging a claim if you miss your deadline. Swift action helps protect your rights. Experienced lawyers will explain the legal process and potential barriers to a successful claim.

When you have experienced a loss due to incorrect advice, the effects can impact your emotions, mental health, and finances. Getting justice can start your healing process. So, if you’ve been damaged by another party’s full or partial negligence, seek legal advice from Splatt Lawyers now by Calling 1800 700 125

Seek Legal Advice for Professional Negligence Claims

Claims Against Accountants

If your accountant has made a mistake or provided incorrect advice and harmed your financial position, contact Splatt Lawyers to learn your rights.

If a barrister, solicitor, or lawyer has given you negligent advice or misrepresented your interests, ask a negligence lawyer what to do next.

When you have acted on bad advice from a financial advisor and suffered a loss, an experienced lawyer can assist.

If you acted on a lousy property valuation and had a loss, ask Splatt Lawyers for legal insights.

When an agronomist points you in the wrong direction, and the outcome is your loss, Splatt Lawyers understands the legislation that applies to your case.

No Win No Fee Professional Negligence Claims

At Splatt Lawyers, we believe all Australians deserve a fair go. If you have had a financial loss due to the actions or inaction of someone else, you may not have the funds to seek the legal advice you need to recover. For this reason, we provide No Win, No Fee funding for professional liability legal claims.

Pay our legal costs only when we win your case, with no upfront costs. However, you must fund the professional assessments, reports, or expert evidence required to prove your case and access your entitlements.

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What is a Professional’s Duty of Care?

By the nature of their occupation, people who provide paid advice have a legal duty to perform their role to a reasonable level of competency. This standard of care is the minimum a reasonable person would do to protect others from harm in the same circumstances.

Splatt Lawyers advise your rights when they fail to do so, and you suffer a financial loss because of their lousy work or negligent advice.

We support Queensland residents and business people who have been financially damaged by negligent lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, property valuers, financial planners, agronomists, and more. Contact our professional negligence lawyers for legal support if this is your circumstance. It costs nothing to know your legal rights.

Claim for Negligence against a Professional Liability Insurer

Don’t accept the standard response you might get from the negligent party, such as: “Oh well, it’s just bad luck, I guess” or “It’s normal for these things to happen” All professionals have a legal duty of care; for the services and advice they provide.

Most people seek experienced legal advice when considering legal action for professional indemnity. Because the quality and reliability of evidence are crucial to a successful claim. 

At Splatt Lawyers, Kerry Splatt leads our insurance litigation team. Kerry is a Queensland Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law. Please find out how we can assist you by completing the enquiry form below.

Professional Negligence Compensation

We all expect that when we engage the service of a qualified professional, they’ll be worth the fees they charge and have the expertise they advertise. However, sometimes an expert may provide poor service due to incompetence, unprofessional behaviour or even a one-off mistake. When this happens, you may be able to make a professional indemnity damages claim.

To be entitled to liability compensation, you must establish the following:

  1. Has there been negligence? You must prove that a person has provided a service that falls short of the standard of care and skill expected in their profession.
  2. Has the professional neglect caused you harm or damage? You must show that you suffered a loss linked to the substandard service.

Professional liability claims can be challenging to prove, especially concerning a medical duty of care breach. If you cannot work due to a medical professional’s negligence, an excellent first step is to make a complaint to the Queensland Office of the Health Ombudsman (OHO). If the OHO accepts your complaint, contact experienced professional negligence lawyers in Brisbane to learn more about your right to make a claim.

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How Much Compensation for Professional Negligence?

When you have a successful indemnity compensation claim, your payout restores your financial position to where you would be if the error had not occurred. Hence, your compensation payment can also incorporate missed profits and the costs associated with fixing the problem created by the negligent action or behaviour. Sometimes, you will also receive damages for an associated personal injury, like emotional trauma.

What is the Deadline to Lodge a Claim?

Professional negligence is a complex area of law and requires expert legal advice. There are strict time limits for indemnity damages claims, and missing a deadline can mean losing the right to make a compensation claim. These are the time frames: 

  • Professional Negligence: 6 years from the time of negligence (3 years if a personal injury has occurred)
  • Medical Negligence: 12 years from the time of negligence (3 years if a personal injury has occurred)

If you believe you have sustained a significant loss and want to know if you have a valid claim, contact us at Splatt Lawyers for a free case assessment. Call: 1800 700 125

Compensation Claims for Negligent Acts

Splatt Lawyers understands the legal process for professional indemnity claims and potential barriers to success. Whether you have been misadvised or failed by a lawyer, accountant, financial advisor, or agronomist, the legal team at our Queensland law firm explain the following:

  • Your legal position
  • If you have a valid professional liability case
  • What you can claim and barriers to success
  • Ensuring you meet or exceed the insurers’ conditions
  • Claiming additional interest from the insurance company if they don’t act promptly

Get justice if you have suffered a loss that was not your fault. Contact us now for a free review of your case. Call 1800 700 125 →

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QLD Wide Professional Negligence Lawyers Brisbane

You have the right to seek independent legal advice when professionals provide poor or incorrect advice, whether from a real estate agent, legal profession, medical practitioner, or accounting errors. At such a time, Splatt Lawyers has a professional negligence lawyer close by. Choose your location now:

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Professional Negligence Claim and Liability Law FAQs

A breach of duty can arise from simple mistakes. For example:

  • A lawyer fails to file a document correctly, you could potentially face legal action because it might cause harm to another party.
  • A doctor fails to diagnose a patient accurately, they could be liable for medical malpractice. In both cases, the breach of duty involves negligence.
  • An accountant disregards something important when preparing a tax return. They forgot to include some information about a client. Or they may inadvertently send incorrect invoices.
  • A lawyer misses a deadline for filing a court document.
  • A doctor forgets to check a patient’s vital signs.

All of the above can lead to financial loss for the client.

In Queensland, it is necessary to demonstrate three factors to successfully claim negligence:

  1. The professional owed the claimant a duty of care
  2. This duty was breached
  3. There must have been some damage, loss or injury suffered by the victim due to the duty breach.

Typically, people who work in a profession hold professional indemnity insurance. It is the insurance company that will be responsible for paying financial compensation.

Every situation is unique, so this question has no easy answer. However, when you contact Splatt Lawyers for your free claim review, our team can approximate what you can expect.

The time taken to settle your matter will depend on the simplicity or complexity of your case and the available evidence. Splatt Lawyers provides legal services for business liability insurance on a no-win, no-fee basis. Like you, we are focused on settlement in the shortest time frame.

According to the common law of negligence, we all have a legal duty of care to take reasonable precautions to avoid endangering other people or their property.

When making a legal claim for damages, your financial compensation can be reduced or denied if your actions or inaction contributed to your loss. This principle is called contributory negligence.

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