Compensation for victims: the permanent fight of Serge Beynet's law firm

Experience and mastery of a complex subject

Specializing in victims' rights for more than 30 years, Cabinet Beynet is made up of 4 lawyers, a lawyer and a social worker.

Based in Paris, it operates throughout France, overseas territories included, as well as abroad.

Serge Beynet contributed to the positive development of legislation and case law on compensation for victims.

The process of support for victims by the firm Beynet is carried out in two main stages: the establishment of the right to compensation and the determination of the amount thereof.

Establishing the principle of the admissibility of compensation is the preliminary question, the complexity of which requires fine skills.

Beynet's lawyers work together with their client-victims from the start of their mission.

The determination of responsibilities, a frequent source of conflict

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Being a "victim" doesn't just happen to others.

The damage suffered can be material, moral or bodily, it being understood that these three types can be combined.

To whom should the victim turn?

The answer is clear: a specialized lawyer.

In the case of traffic accidents, for example, Serge Beynet specifies that the benign fault of a customer-driver does not prohibit the principle of compensation, despite what the opposing insurance company can often wrongly maintain .

Similarly, an accident occurring abroad is compensable in France.

Another sensitive subject is that of medical accidents for which proof of the doctor's fault must be provided or, in the absence of fault, that of the therapeutic hazard.

Such fights will have serious consequences in all dimensions of the client's life.

Because all areas of human activity are concerned

An accident of life is, for example, a person who helps a friend to repair his roof and falls.

It is a disinterested action, accomplished within the framework of family or friendly mutual aid.

The damage caused can be more or less important, hence the need for the intervention of a lawyer.

It is indeed a question of resolving complex questions to identify what coverage, in terms of guarantee or insurance, the victim can avail himself of to benefit from compensation.

The defense of victims of aggression is another specialty of the firm Beynet.

When the perpetrator is insolvent or unknown, his team brings together all the elements of the file to be presented to the Crime Victims Compensation Commission (CIVI), a guarantee fund created for this purpose, with a view to compensation. of his client by him.

Finally, Me Beynet's team intervenes in work accidents to establish inexcusable fault on the part of the employer or recognition of occupational disease.

Compensation for employees is still insufficient today and lawyers from the Beynet firm are working to change the legislation on this point.

Determination of the amount of compensation

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Once the intervention of the firm Beynet has made it possible to have the victim's right to compensation recognized, the essential question then arises of the amount of this compensation.

The firm's lawyers assist their clients in all the stages, often complex and painful with regard to the traumas suffered, making it possible to define the amount of compensation.

Various expert opinions, in particular medical ones, will thus intervene, commissioned by the courts, the Social Security, the insurance companies, the Beynet firm itself, in order to establish the sequelae as well as the compensation to which the victim can claim.

Important questions are then to be decided for the benefit of the victim and for which the firm Beynet brings all its professionalism (amount of financial compensation in annuity or capital,

Drawing on its long experience in defending the interests of victims, the firm Beynet intervenes for the repair of all types of damage suffered before the civil, criminal or administrative courts.

Being a technical and complex matter, in constant evolution and often with decisive financial stakes for the victims, Serge Beynet gives them this advice all the time: “Don't stay alone”!