Serious Personal Injury Compensation Lawyers

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.