Injuries

The hardest part of any claim is usually the valuation of any injuries sustained.  This is primarily due to the subjective nature of the impact any injury will have.  Whatever happens, you will not be glad for the money and are always likely to feel that the compensation for your injury was a pittance compared to what you have been through.

Over the years the value of compensation did not keep up with inflation and the real value of money. As a result a legal challenge was brought in 2000 in the case of Heil v Rankin following a report from the Law Commission recommending that all personal injury awards should be increased by between 50% and 100%. Despite much anticipation, the result was an increase in awards only above £10,000 and on a sliding scale up to a 1/3 increase for awards in the region of £150,000.

Nowadays the Judicial Studies Board issue guidelines each year on the appropriate ranges of awards for categories of injuries.  For example, how much would you give for your right arm? They say it is worth between £63,625 and £76,350 for an amputation above the elbow.  We have set out below general guidance to the value of injuries, but nothing is a substitute for a proper assessment of the value of injuries in your case.  The guidelines are often criticised as being too wide or too loose in their definitions and cases invariably turn on their own particular facts.

• Whiplash
• Soft Tissue Injury
• Ligament Damage
• Psychiatric Injury
• Fractures
• Catastrophic Injury
• Fatal Injuries
• Multiple Injuries
• Brain Injury

Where we believe that we excel against every other firm is our trial experience on liability and quantum cases involving motorcycles. Where liability is contested and it turns on the Claimant's motorcycling, then there are very few firms that can live with us in terms of raw trial expertise and we regularly take over serious claims only to find that the previous solicitors have missed or seriously undervalued items of loss.

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