Torts & Compensation Legal Services

Claiming compensation for harm you've suffered starts with precisely identifying its type: traffic accidents and compensation through Najm, insurance, and the courts, or personal and bodily injury compensation more broadly, alongside medical malpractice, material and moral damages, diyah, and arsh.

Immediate documentation sets the ceiling for later compensation

The value of any compensation claim, whether for a traffic accident or a bodily injury, depends directly on the quality of medical and factual documentation in the first hours and days after the incident; a delayed or imprecise medical report makes it harder later to prove the causal link between the incident and the actual harm, especially for injuries whose full effects only appear some time after they occur.

The insurance company isn't a neutral party in assessing the harm

An insurance company's assessment of harm naturally serves its own commercial interest, and often leans toward undervaluing the full extent of the damage, especially regarding indirect losses like lost income or future treatment costs. Accepting an insurance company's first offer without an independent assessment of every element of the harm may mean giving up a genuine part of the compensation actually owed.

Diyah and arsh are fixed by statute, but entitlement isn't automatic

Unlike ordinary civil compensation subject to judicial discretion, diyah and arsh amounts are fixed according to established Sharia tables. But this doesn't mean entitlement is automatic or that calculating it is always simple; determining the degree of injury and its proportion of the full diyah needs a precise Sharia-medical report, and there may be room to claim additional civil compensation for harms that diyah or arsh alone don't cover.

Moral damage needs entirely different proof from material damage

Proving material damage relies on tangible documents (invoices, loss reports), while moral damage relies on a broader judicial assessment of how the incident affected the injured party's psychological and social state, and presenting the case in a way that clearly shows this impact makes a real difference to the size of the compensation awarded.

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