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We have created this serious personal injury compensation claims guide to help as best we can to provide you with information about what to expect in relation to a serious injury legal case. It is important to remember that each case will be carefully pursued to meet the individual needs of the client, which can vary significantly from person to person. This guide can give you some useful insight.
Serious personal injury compensation claim pay-outs in the UK can be substantial, and they need to be properly and professional qualified. It takes more than the average law firm to achieve this which is why you need specialists on your side.
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To assist you in understanding the serious personal injury compensation claim process, we have created a brief FAQ below of some of the common questions that may be asked:
A: The definition of a serious injury in the UK generally means a personal injury where the victim will suffer for a long period of time or may suffer from permanent problems for the rest of their life.
A: examples of serious personal injuries in the UK can include serious bone fractures requiring multiple operations with pins and plates; loss of limb injuries; injuries that lead to loss of senses, such as eyesight or smell; nerve damage that can impact the mobility of any part of our body; serious neurological and brain injuries that reduce the capacity of the injured person; serious scarring injuries, particularly on the face and from burns; serious ligament damage that leads to a lack of mobility in affected limbs; severe mental trauma that may include depression and or PTSD; to name a few.
A: The typical serious personal injury compensation claim process can be very different to what you may normally expect with a straightforward legal case. A lot of personal injury claims nowadays are submitted through online portals to make processing them as easy as possible. However, many serious personal injury claims do not go through this process because they need more individual attention. We will often use what was the previous common way of working where we will send correspondence to the Defendant and ask that they accept liability within a period of approximately four months.
It can be quite common for a Defendant to deny liability and defend serious injury claims because they know that they may be facing a substantial damages pay-out, so it is in their interest to try to defend claims as much as possible. As such, we often say to clients that they should expect the opponent may try to defend the claim. If this happens, we are here as your legal experts to overturn this and fight them all the way.
It is quite common for the serious personal injury compensation claim process to take a considerable period of time to reach a conclusion. You may need to be seen by multiple medical experts as part of the process for valuing your claim and helping you with any private treatment that you may require. There may also be a great deal to do in terms of investigating any losses and expenses that you have incurred. As such, expect that your claim could be ongoing for a number of years. We may be able to push for part payments early, known as interim payments, before your claim has settled. This can help to fund the costs of private treatment and help you with any ongoing losses and expenses.
There is, of course, much more to it than this, but the above is a very brief idea as to the claims process that you might expect to see.
A: When it comes to how much a serious personal injury claim could be valued at, it really is very difficult to confirm this without further information about your injury and suffering. We have included some of the common overheads for serious injury claims on this advice page to give you a rough idea as to how much you may be entitled to receive in our Serious Injury Compensation Chart, but there are a lot of intricacies when it comes to valuing a claim of this nature.
A: When it comes to typical pay-outs for serious personal injury claims in the UK, we use a combination of specialist medical evidence and the official guidelines referred to above to value the case. Please take a look at the Serious Injury Compensation Chart we have created below which could give you something of an idea.
A: Please see the below Serious Injury Claims Chart for a brief list below of serious personal injury compensation pay-out examples in the UK.
A: Us – just call our serious injury claims helpline on 01246 948 077 now for free, no-obligation legal advice.
As serious personal injury compensation lawyers, we can provide a vast amount of insight into the claims process for these types of cases. This includes a quick chart below which, using the generally accepted definitions of a serious injury in the UK, can provide you with some basic ideas as to how we approach valuing these cases.
We have created this brief Serious Personal Injury Compensation Claims Chart with a heading of some of the more catastrophic injuries that people can suffer from and what the values could be estimated at. This information is based on the official guidelines (known as the JC Guidelines) that are used by solicitors to value claims.
It is important to understand that the information below is based solely on the guidelines and does not account for the actual medical evidence that will be the key component required to property value a case. We also use a combination of our experience and previously settled claims (known as case law) to properly value claims, so the below information is just for guidance only. It is also important to understand that this information below is just for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity caused, and there will be the additional losses and expenses claims to consider in addition to the below. Known as Special Damages, the losses and expenses claim can be the larger part for a catastrophic injury claim because the amount of losses that a person could incur can be substantial.
According to the official guidelines in
relation to examples of serious personal injuries:
This is a spread of examples of serious personal injuries where the awards and pay-outs can fall within the definition of a serious personal injury in the UK. Whether a claim can be classed as within the typical pay-outs for serious personal injury cases in the UK can depend on a lot of factors but, generally speaking, the more a person suffers, the more a case could be worth. So, any injury or suffering that leads to incredibly long-term or permanent damage could fall within the scope of a serious injury case.
As a further reminder, the information in the Serious Personal Injury Compensation Claims Chart above is based on the official guidelines used to help solicitors to value cases. The actual amount you could claim could alter dramatically depending on the extent of your injuries (especially if there are multiple injuries) and when considering your losses and expenses claims. This is a basic guideline for general information purposes only.
Serious personal injury compensation claim pay-outs in the UK are quantified with great care and detail and will often account for a lot of the personal impact on the victim, which can differ greatly from person to person. This should always be considered when trying to estimate how much a legal case could be valued at.
Our expert team is on hand now to provide you with free, no-obligation legal advice. We can talk about the serious personal injury compensation claim process and how we can help you, and we can confirm if we are able to represent you for a legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis now.
For free, no-obligation legal advice now, please call our FREE serious injury claims helpline on 01246 948 077.
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You can also refer to the list of examples of serious personal injury compensation pay-outs in the UK above for broader information. This is based on information from the official guidelines used to help solicitors to value cases, based on typical pay-outs for serious personal injury matters in the UK only.
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