The National Personal Injury Quality Mark is in your interest!
Quality Mark Personal Injury Agency Van der Toorn Personal Injury: the National Quality Mark for Personal Injury was established in June 2007, in part by Victim Support Netherlands.
In January 2008, the first personal injury firms were awarded the National Quality Mark for Personal Injury . Naturally, Van der Toorn Personal Injury was one of them. To this day, we remain proud of our National Quality Mark for Personal Injury!
The National Quality Mark for Personal Injury
The National Personal Injury Quality Mark was created to combat fraudulent personal injury specialists, personal injury lawyers, and personal injury firms. If a personal injury firm has the National Personal Injury Quality Mark, you don't have to worry.
The personal injury law firm in question must meet strict quality standards. We are audited annually by an independent external party.
The quality requirements relate to, among other things:
- the quality of the work of the personal injury agency,
- the training, expertise and continuous professional development of the affiliated personal injury professionals,
- the financial structure of the company and
- the method of remuneration towards customers.
No cure-no pay with the National Personal Injury Quality Mark
work No-cure-no-pay is generally disapproved by the National Personal Injury Quality Mark. This remuneration structure may only be chosen in highly exceptional circumstances.
This method of remuneration is usually not to your advantage. With a no-cure-no-pay system, they only select promising cases that would otherwise have resulted in reimbursement of legal fees. We call this "selection at the gate.".
Always FREE help with Cost Guarantee
the Quality Mark Personal Injury Agency Van der Toorn Personal Injury has expressly chosen not to carry out any work on a no cure-no pay basis!
Because of our expertise, we are uniquely positioned to make a good assessment of the likelihood of compensation for your personal injury during our first contact and based on your story.
If we believe you have a good chance of receiving compensation for your personal injury, we will immediately provide you with a written Cost Guarantee.
The opposing party must also pay legal costs
Because in the Netherlands it is arranged that a liable insurer must also your legal costs (read: our fee).
If we estimate in advance that your opponent will indeed have to pay the legal costs, we will immediately guarantee you free legal assistance in writing.
If it later turns out that we have made an incorrect assessment, that is our risk and not yours.
And in this way, no cure-no pay in case of personal injury is not necessary at all!
Complaints procedure National Quality Mark for Personal Injury
Although we sincerely hope you will never need it, the National Personal Injury Quality Mark – just like the Personal Injury Quality Mark Agency Van der Toorn Personal Injury itself – has a clear complaints procedure and an external complaints procedure.
Click here for the brochure of the National Personal Injury Quality Mark, here for the Complaints Regulations of the Personal Injury Quality Mark Agency Van der Toorn Personal Injury, and here for the website of the Personal Injury Quality Mark Foundation.
Quality mark Personal Injury Agency Van der Toorn Personal Injury
Only if you choose a personal injury specialist or personal injury agency with the National Personal Injury Quality Mark can you be sure that you will receive reliable legal assistance.
Van der Toorn Personal Injury was among the first personal injury firms to receive the National Quality Mark for Personal Injury. Our clients consistently tell us we are a highly reliable partner. You can trust us like no other.
Moreover, our legal assistance is also of the highest legal standard. And completely free of charge for you.
When do you need a Personal Injury Agency Quality Mark?
You need a Personal Injury Agency Quality Mark after:
- traffic accident
- industrial accident
- accident caused by animals
- accident on public transport
- an accident due to another cause
You can't know who's liable and when. It's even possible that the accident was your own fault, but you're still entitled to compensation. So always ask us about your options.
What could your personal injury consist of?
Your personal injury may consist of:
- additional costs
- lost revenue
- compensation for pain and suffering and
- your legal costs (read: our fee, which entitles you to that is free of charge legal assistance)
Do you need advice on personal injury?
Have you suffered personal injury due to the fault of another and do you need personal injury advice?
Please feel free to contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation. This will give you immediate clarity, and our advice is completely non-binding.
You can fill out the form on the website, call, email, or even chat. Whatever works best for you. You'll receive honest and clear advice, and then you can decide for yourself what to do with it.
We're happy to help, and we'll help you well! We promise!
About the author
The information on this page was written by Floris de Bruin, a specialist in liability and personal injury. The content of this page fully complies with the requirements of the National Quality Mark for Personal Injury (NKL).
What customers ask
Is your help really free for me?
Absolutely, our help is truly FREE.
Your counterparty is also obligated to reimburse your legal costs (i.e., our firm's fees). This is stipulated by law (Section 6:96 of the Dutch Civil Code).
upfront written cost guarantee with a clear explanation. This also clearly states what you can expect from us and what we can expect from you.
We guarantee that the liable party will reimburse our costs. If they don't, it's our business risk. You'll never receive a bill from us. We promise!
Still unsure? Just contact us. We'd be happy to explain how our cost guarantee works.
If you'd like to learn more about our FREE personal injury assistance, click here. Clarity is paramount!
When can I claim personal injury damages?
You can claim damages for personal injury due to the fault of another person injury (been injured)
Personal injury can be caused by, for example:
In addition, you may think of injuries sustained during:
- organized trip
- unsafe product or
- fall at someone else's home, in a shop or on the street
It's best not to wait too long to file a personal injury claim. It's best to do so immediately after the accident.
Even if it is not yet clear at that time what your injury and its financial consequences consist of.
However, someone else must liable and must have taken out liability insurance for this (AVP/AVB/WA).
However, even if you caused the accident yourself, you can sometimes still claim compensation for personal injury. For example, if you SVI (Passenger Injury Insurance) or SVO (Opzittende Inschadende).
Are you unsure whether and when you are entitled to personal injury compensation?
Don't hesitate to contact us now for a free, no-obligation consultation. It's free , and you'll know exactly where you stand. Afterward, you can decide for yourself what to do with our advice.
What injuries do you treat?
We can actually help you with all types of personal injury
Van der Toorn Personal Injury can help you with all types of injuries. We specialize in handling "serious personal injuries," such as:
- brain injury (ABI)
- spinal cord injury
- burns
- dystrophy
- bone fractures and
- cosmetic injury.
But of course, we are also very happy to be there for you if someone else has sustained an injury. Such as neck injuries, whiplash, back injuries, bruises, sprains, dog bites, temporary injuries, and you name it.
We cannot help with all types of personal injury
The only thing we cannot help you with is personal injury caused by:
- violence
- medical errors and/or
- situations of abuse.
In that situation, we will of course refer you to a party that is specialized in this.
Always request free, no-obligation advice on personal injury claims
Do you have questions about your personal injury? Or are you unsure if we're the right place for you?
Please do not hesitate to ask us for a complete and free, no-obligation personal injury claim consultation.
When should I contact you?
You don't have to! But it's in your best interest to as soon as possible contact
Only then can you be certain that there is someone who thinks solely of your interests . Because that is our job: thinking of *your* interests.
But what is: as quickly as possible?
Sometimes an insurance company will contact you very shortly after the accident. They'll ask how you're doing and also ask for all sorts of other information.
You cannot know whether that insurer is asking “too many questions” from a legal perspective. About your health before the accident and which doctors you visited. You would rather avoid that, wouldn't you? So never wait too long to engage a personal injury firm.
It's also likely that you'll quickly incur significant expenses . Or your incomemay disappear. We'll handle the initial damage payments from the other party. Then you can focus on your recovery.
Would you like to know what's best for you? Don't hesitate to without obligation us
We'll give you right away advice clear. Then you can decide for yourself what to do with it.
If we think we can help you, we will let you know right away.
At the same time, we guarantee that our legal assistance completely free of charge .
To learn more about our FREE personal injury assistance services, click here.
What personal injury compensation amounts am I entitled to?
The personal injury compensation amounts you are entitled to are:
Allowances for additional assistance, such as:
- household help, shopping, taking children to school, etc.
- help in the garden and
- help with the maintenance and painting of your home.
In addition, your personal injury may have consequences for your income, such as:
- income that is not fully paid (self-employed person, temporary worker, zero-hour contract, etc.)
- no more irregular hours allowance
- no longer being able to work overtime
- missed promotions and
- missed pension accrual
Finally, you can consider other equally important personal injury compensation amounts, such as:
- Study delay
- Reintegration costs for guidance to other work
- Costs associated with admission to a hospital or rehabilitation center
- Travel expenses
- Medical expenses
- Non-pecuniary damages
- Economic vulnerability
- Statutory interest
- Furthermore, all costs that you would not have incurred without the accident…
- For example, the wages you did not receive because you could not go to work.
- Gasoline because you had to go to the hospital or the physiotherapist.
- Medicines that were covered by your deductible.
In addition, you are always entitled to compensation for pain and suffering, also known as non-material damages.
This is compensation for "loss of enjoyment of life." Your damages should compensate you for your grief, pain, and anything else that might have made you less happy than before the accident.
Unfortunately, Dutch law is not generous in awarding damages for pain and suffering. Therefore, the amounts awarded in the Netherlands are not considered "fair enough.".
If you'd like to learn more about non-pecuniary damages, click here. If you'd like to learn more about personal injury damages, click here.
Calculating non-pecuniary damages
Calculating non-pecuniary damages:
You are always entitled to compensation for pain and suffering. This is the "non-pecuniary component" of your personal injury compensation.
What is non-pecuniary damages?
Pain and suffering compensation is not in itself a “hard legal term”. It is compensation for damage that cannot be expressed in monetary terms.
So, everything that doesn't fall under additional costs or lost income. It's essentially compensation for your "mental damage.".
How to calculate non-pecuniary damages
People often ask us at the very beginning of their personal injury case how much compensation they are entitled to.
That question is actually impossible to answer. And any personal injury lawyer who claims otherwise is mistaken.
When can you calculate my non-pecuniary damages?
Your compensation for pain and suffering can only be definitively determined at the end of your personal injury case.
Only then will it be known what psychological consequences your injury has had and/or will have for you.
Because it is the psychological consequences that largely determine your compensation for non-pecuniary damages.
Important factors in calculating non-pecuniary damages
Important factors for calculating your non-pecuniary damages include:
- the nature of your injury
- the severity of your injury
- your age
- your gender
- your level of consciousness
- whether you will have permanent scars and where those scars are located
- whether you have physical limitations that affect your quality of life
- how much pain have you suffered and continue to suffer
- how long your recovery period was and
- whether you have recovered at all or whether there is permanent damage.
Indication calculation of non-pecuniary damages:
We cannot predict exactly how much your compensation for non-pecuniary damages will be.
What we can do is give you a general indication of the amount of your compensation for pain and suffering.
If this sounds appealing, contact us today for a free, honest consultation. Afterward, you can decide for yourself what to do with it.
We are happy to help you calculate and claim your compensation for pain and suffering and other personal injury damages, such as your additional costs and lost income.
And if you choose our legal assistance, we guarantee you in writing in advance that our assistance will always FREE .
Calculating non-pecuniary damages? Ask for advice! We're happy to help. Want to know more about calculating non-pecuniary damages? Click here.
Stories from the field
After the collision, we started having neck pain; we could no longer work..
It happened when I was driving to work with a colleague. Just on the highway, not even in a traffic jam. It was, of course, busy during the morning rush hour. We were going about 70 km/h. Someone behind us wasn't paying attention and crashed right into us. We didn't see it coming at all.
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