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When an unexpected accident leads to limb loss or amputation, the impact on the injured person is lifelong and profound. Amputation causes permanent disability which reduces the amputee’s independence and mobility, making it harder to engage in work, travel and leisure activities or to participate fully in family life at home. In addition to the physical restrictions and financial hardships that follow severe disability, amputees often experience phantom limb pain and psychological injury.
If you have suffered injuries leading to amputation as a result of an accident that was caused by someone else’s negligence, we can help you obtain the rehabilitation and compensation that you need to restore your independence and rebuild your life.
If your amputation injury was caused by medical negligence, you can visit our page dedicated to amputations caused by medical negligence.
Speak to our personal injury solicitors
It costs nothing to talk to us to find out about making an amputation injury claim for yourself or a member of your family. You can contact us by telephone or by email for free, confidential advice from a specialist personal injury solicitor. In serious injury cases, we often visit our clients in the hospital or at their home if they are unable to get to our offices.
We will ask you to tell us briefly about the accident and injury. We will advise you about your time limits and whether we can help you make a claim. Your solicitor will discuss with you how your claim will be funded and advise, fully and clearly, how that works and what it will mean for you. We offer a range of funding options, but most of our clients’ claims are handled on a ‘no win no fee’ basis.
We will put your claim to the defendant individual or organisation whose negligence caused your injury, and we will handle all communication on your behalf. The defendant’s insurers will usually handle the claim on the defendant’s behalf and will be responsible for paying any compensation. Once we are in contact with the defendant’s insurers, we can begin to secure the necessary rehabilitation and specialist support to meet the injured person’s immediate needs whilst we proceed with the claim.
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Our client was driving a friend’s motorbike when he was hit by an oncoming car. He suffered open fractures to his tibia and fibula (long bones) of both legs, and a severe injury affecting the femoral artery in his right thigh. He needed multiple surgical operations, including a below-knee amputation and skin graft.
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Claire is exceptionally knowledgeable in the personal injury legal domain, especially in the specific area of my injury. From our very first conversation, she was clear in explaining the potential different routes that the process could take and provided me with expectations of what I could expect along the journey. She ensured that all bases were covered, organising meetings, discussions and necessary specialist appointments, in order to bring together the case and take it forward. Claire was then able to use her extensive pool of contacts, to appoint an "area leading" barrister, to represent me. Overall, I was very pleased with appointing Claire and Boyes Turner to act as my solicitor for the legal claim that I pursued. Thank you for all of your support.
Kim handled my personal injury claim after a car accident with immeasurable expertise and compassion. Boyes Turner arranged every part of my private rehabilitation, which greatly improved the speed and quality of my recovery. Each stage of the litigation process was dealt with efficiently and succinctly. This was then always explained without using unclear legal jargon. On both health and financial levels, I would be in a far worse position without Kim’s invaluable input. I cannot recommend this firm enough.
Kim and team at Boyes Turner were a patient and stabilising force though a multi-year case. This case was littered with trauma and upset from the beginning, and exacerbated by mis truths and rewriting of the demonstrable facts from the opposition. Kim guided me carefully through the process and helped to neutralise the negativity coming from the opposition throughout.
I approached Claire Roantree of Boyes Turner in regards to making a claim about a workplace burns injury. It was something that had scarred me physically and mentally and taken a huge toll on the lives of me and my family. Claire wasted no time in finding out what happened and made sure I was treated by known experts and quickly finding an answer to my burns scarring and how I could be treated to help manage my pain. Claire also helped me by appointing a psychiatrist to understand my situation and help me cope with post traumatic stress disorder. As well as taking as much stress of the claim away, she was thorough in every situation, making sure I had the best possible claim, and handled it all expertly, I am so very grateful to her and her team. They have helped guide my life back into a positive direction and I can't thank her enough!
Excellent service from Claire and her team at all times. We were kept up to date at each stage of our claim. The outcome was much better than we expected and we would not hesitate to recommend Boyes Turner to family and friends.
Amputation personal injury claims allow people who have suffered or need an amputation as a result of injuries from an accident to claim compensation for their injuries from the negligent defendant’s insurer. Making an amputation personal injury claim can also enable us to help the injured person access early rehabilitation, funded by the insurer, alongside the claim, to support and maximise their recovery and identify their long-term needs arising from the injury.
During rehabilitation, we work with trusted medical and prosthetics experts and professional case managers to restore our clients’ independence and mobility through personalised prosthetics, specialist wheelchairs, adapted vehicles and adaptations to their home. Depending on the amputee client’s needs, their rehabilitation can also involve care and support, private medical or surgical treatment, psychological counselling and other therapies, as well as vocational rehabilitation to support a return to work. Compensation after amputation can also restore the amputee’s ability to participate fully in family life and provide safe, adaptable access to their former activities, sports and hobbies.
Accidents and negligence which commonly lead to amputation personal injury claims include:
Find out more about medical negligence causes of amputation, contact our medical negligence solicitors for advice about making an amputation medical negligence claim.
Each client’s compensation claim is carefully calculated based on the severity of their injury, the cost of meeting their needs arising from the injury and their individual circumstances. Amputation personal injury claims may include claims for compensation for:
In many cases where our client suffered severe injury in an accident that was caused by the negligence of an employer, driver, business or organisation, we can secure early interim payments and funding for rehabilitation from the defendant’s insurance company whilst the claim is still underway. This enables us to work with a professional case manager, our medical experts and the defendant’s insurers to prioritise our client’s rehabilitation and recovery, without having to wait until the settlement of the claim. Rehabilitation funding can be used to pay for our client’s immediate needs arising from their amputation injury, such as medical treatment and therapies, specialist prosthetics, mobility aids and costs of additional help care.
Early rehabilitation is known to maximise recovery, and by securing rehabilitation funding at an early stage we can start making a difference to our injured client straight away. As the claim proceeds, our client’s coordinated rehabilitation also helps us to understand more accurately the full impact of our client’s injury and the costs of managing their disability in future, so that we can ensure that full provision for these future costs are included in the claim.
In addition, we can often secure interim (advance) payments of compensation to ease financial hardship that our client has suffered as a result of the injury, such as from being unable to work.
Where our client is injured in an accident which leaves them at risk of needing an amputation in the future, their settlement can provide full compensation for the current injury, including the future risk. This type of settlement works best for clients who need closure and prefer to conclude their claim with one final settlement.
If the accident and injury has left our client with a risk of future amputation which, if it occurred, would significantly increase their disability, we may recommend a settlement which compensates their current injury but retains their right to claim further compensation if the future amputation is needed. This kind of settlement is known as a ‘provisional damages’ order.
We advise each client about their settlement options and discuss with them our recommendations to ensure that they receive their compensation in the way that best suits their needs and preferences.
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