A broken leg can be a devastating injury to suffer from, and the impact it can have in both the short term and long term on a victim’s life can be significant. I seriously injured my knee back in 2012 so I’m all too familiar with the affects of a serious leg injury and the extent that an injury can affect you.
So if you are the unfortunate victim of an accident and you want to make a claim for personal injury compensation, what can you claim for when it comes to a broken leg?
Generally speaking, a claim for compensation is formed of two parts – General Damages and Special Damages. General Damages is for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity, whereas Special Damages is for financial losses and expenses.
Pain, Suffering, and Loss of Amenity
So the first aspect, General Damages, is all about the severity and length of the suffering and the impact it has had on your life. We assess this and value this by sending you to see a qualified medico-legal expert to produce a report for us that outlines everything we need to know to value a case for the injury side of things.
Generally speaking, the more you suffer, the more we get for you. We take in to account several things like:
- Mobility issues – if you can’t put weight on the leg, it will obviously be a massive inconvenience and will likely result in physiotherapy being required later on
- If you need operations, this is further pain and inconvenience to take in to account
- If you are generally an active person and this injury has stopped a lot of hobbies, either in the short or long term, we look at this as well
The gist is it’s all about how the injury had affected you – and the more it affects you, the more compensation you may be entitled to recover.
Losses and expenses for broken leg injury claims
We can recover losses and expenses incurred as a result of the injury as well. Commonly these include:
- Lost earnings from time off work – including loss of overtime and bonuses
- Travel expenses to and from appointments – which could be a lot of taxi journeys if you can’t drive
- Care and assistance claims – where you can even recover an hourly rate for help from friends and family, even when they are not charging you for their time (which I hope they’re not!)
- Private medical care – the costs of which we can fund and recover later from the other side, so you don’t have to lay anything out
100% compensation for broken leg claims
For most broken leg claims we can offer you a 100% compensation agreement, depending on the circumstances of the accident. Most law firms will take up to 25% from your payout due to law changes from last year and this could equate to a lot of money as even minor broken leg claims can attract awards of up to £10,000.
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