Accident Compensation UK

If you have suffered losses due to a personal injury then you are entitled to compensation. If you are financial worse off through damages to your clothing and property, loss of earnings and any insurance excess you may have then your claim should be watertight.

Accident Claims:

You should be equally compensated for the pain and suffering that has resulted from your accident. You can claim for any future losses you may suffer, such as the inability to work or the loss of promotion prospects. Also any social activities, like sport, that you are now no longer able to continue with could be inline for compensation too.

Solicitors like to categorise the type of compensation and the amount you should receive into two separate entities. These are known as Special Damages and General Damages.

Special Damages are concerned with specific entities that hold financial value. Such examples would be any loss of earnings, medical expenses, taxi fares, ruined clothes etc. that has occurred due to your personal injury. Keep a record of any additional expenses (as well as the receipts) that you encounter so that your solicitor can claim them back on your behalf.

General Damages is in reference to the emotional and physical pain suffered by the victim and the constraints imposed upon them. These are more difficult to assess as some financial value has to be placed on your circumstances. Other factors that would be considered are the future earnings that will be lost and how your general lifestyle in the future maybe affected by this injury. Calculating the compensation for general damages comes with no set formulas as every scenario is different from the next. It depends solely on the individual, their circumstances and if they can recover from the injuries they now have.

The compensation that successful victims have received in the past a brief list of the damages paid out for numerous arm and leg injuries is below:

• Loss of both arms - from £125,000 to £155,000
• Total loss of both legs - from £125,000 to £145,000
• Loss of one arm – minimum of £72,500 (below the shoulder); £57,500 to £67,500
   (above elbow); £50,000 to £57,500 (below elbow).
• Below knee amputation of both legs - £82,960 to £103,710
• Severe arm injury rendering it useless - £50,000 to £67,500
• Above knee amputation of one leg - £50,000 to £72,500
• Permanently disabled arm - £20,000 to £31,000
• Below knee amputation of one leg - £47,500 to £67,500
• Less severe arm injury - £10,000 to £20,000
• Serious knee injury - £36,000 to £50,000
• Fracture of the forearm - £3,500 to £10,000