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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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.
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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The service from Boyes Turner has quite simply been outstanding, at the most stressful time in our lives they thoroughly looked after us from start to finish. From a warm coffee and listening ear during meetings, to efficiency and professionalism with the legal formalities. Claire our solicitor obviously had a wealth of legal experience of this kind but she also had a real insight and understanding of my injuries. She pushed hard to make sure I could access early on rehabilitation that was not available via the NHS, which enabled me to get back to looking after my kids (which was my number one priority). At the beginning my recovery felt bleak but knowing I had Claire and her team in my corner I started to believe I could get some quality of life back, and I really have. Now the case has concluded, I feel closure and satisfaction my case was dealt with by the best and can move forward with my life with no regrets. Thank you Claire and the Boyes Turner Team.
Kim at Boyes Turner was recommended to me after I had received ineffective service from another company. From the outset, Kim has been professional, reassuring and supportive. I have always had faith in her ability to get the best outcome, not only financially, but also in helping my rehabilitation from a traumatic brain injury. She is friendly and empathetic, with unquestionable professional integrity. She was quick to grasp the important issues in my case, was meticulous in her investigating the details and analysing them, realistic in what the outcomes were likely to be and achieved a successful outcome. I would not hesitate in recommending her and Boyes Turner.
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.
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