Suffering lifelong disability and chronic health conditions due to a traumatic accident at work procedure UK warrants substantial compensation from negligent employers. Addison & Khan Solicitors explains how to build a strong claim that fully accounts for reduced quality of life, lost earnings, and ongoing medical support needs.
Proving Your Permanent Impairment Stemmed Directly From the Accident at work procedure UK
The first priority is proving your permanent impairment was unequivocally caused by the accident at work procedure UK incident in question, rather than any pre-existing conditions. Strategies to establish this include:
- Obtaining your full medical records from before the accident showing no relevant symptoms, disabilities, deficits, or health conditions that could cause your current impairments. This rules out pre-existing causes.
- Securing witness statements from colleagues who directly observed the accident at work procedure UK occur and can attest to the traumatic nature of your injuries.
- Finding records that you displayed acute signs of your permanent impairments immediately following the accident indicating rapid onset of disability.
- Having occupational health experts clinically examine your current condition and definitively link your present physical, sensory, mobility and cognitive impairments directly to the type of damage consistent with the workplace accident trauma. For example, paralysis from spinal cord injury.
Establishing this clear causation connection between the accident event and your resulting permanent impairment is vital groundwork for your entire claim.
Rating the Full Severity of Your Impairment
Once impairment specifically caused by the work place injury is medically proven, the next step is having health experts comprehensively evaluate and rate the severity of the impairment based on the level of debilitation and impact it has on your daily functioning, mobility, faculties, independence, and capacity to work. Key factors evaluated include:
- Pain levels – Chronic severe discomfort and pain merit higher severity ratings and damages.
- Mobility – Strength, flexibility, range of movement, and use of limbs. Amputation of legs would mean maximum severity.
- Sensory faculties – Vision, hearing, touch, taste – percentage loss rated by severity. Becoming legally blind is extremely severe.
- Cognitive and neurological function – Memory, concentration, reasoning, communication, seizures caused by brain trauma. Inability to make decisions or express oneself merits higher ratings.
- Disfigurement and scarring – Assessed based on location on body, extent of appearance changes and psychological effects like loss of confidence. Facial burn scars elicit greater damages.
- Digestive/bowel function – Incontinence and loss of control necessitates higher impairment ratings.
- Reproductive capability – Loss of ability to have children through injury to reproductive organs.
The overall impairment percentage rating informs the value of your claim. The higher the severity, the greater the amount of compensation merited. Addison & Khan works with renowned medical experts to ensure rating accuracy.
Claiming Sufficient Compensation for Medical Care and Rehabilitation
Another significant component of proving your claim’s value is comprehensively documenting and recouping fair compensation for all the medical, mobility, home modification and care assistance necessitated by your impairment both presently and projected for your future. This includes but is not limited to costs for:
- Specialist medical consultations – For example, seeing orthopedic specialists annually to manage pain or urologists for reproductive health.
- Prescription medications – Both current and future required to treat effects of disability.
- Mobility aids – Wheelchairs, stair lifts, standing frames, transfer boards, service animals.
- Prosthetic limbs – Initial and recurring costs of prosthesis purchase, repair, upgrade.
- Home accessibility modifications – Widening doors, installing ramps, adding lifts, kitchen and bathroom renovations.
- In-home professional care assistance – Help with tasks made difficult by reduced mobility or loss of faculties.
- Psychological therapy and counseling – To help adjust to lifestyle changes stemming from disability.
- Physical rehabilitation – Physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, strength and mobility training.
Thoroughly evidencing these lifetime disability support costs is vital for full and fair compensation. Addison & Khan leaves no stone unturned accounting for your needs.
Compensating Lost Earning Capacity
Losing capability to work and earn at your full potential because of a disabling injury also equates to major financial losses over your lifetime. Our financial analysts will calculate projected lost earnings accounting for:
- Inability to continue your previous career and duties due to impairment.
- Potentially lower lifetime earnings from being restricted to more accommodating, but less well paying jobs.
- Periods of unemployment and lost income while retraining and searching for suitable work post-injury.
- Being forced into early retirement before state pension age because health condition renders you unable to work.
- Reduced promotional opportunities within organizations due to accessibility barriers or discrimination.
This future loss of earnings projection resulting from reduced earning capacity typically yields the largest settlement sums, providing financial security.
General Damages for Pain and Suffering
Monetary compensation for the physical burdens and emotional impacts of living with an incurable impairment for your remaining lifetime is also warranted. This accounts for:
- Ongoing pain, discomfort, irritation, and loss of sensations like touch. Having to live with constant suffering merits higher general damages.
- Reduced quality of daily life stemming from loss of independence in simple tasks, activities, mobility and enjoyment that others take for granted.
- Emotional trauma, grief and necessity of psychologically adjusting to permanent life-altering disability.
- Diminished ability to participate in hobbies, interests, community events and social activities. No longer being able to play with your children for instance.
- Strain on spousal and family relationships stemming from disability.
- Embarrassment in public situations, loss of self-confidence, and depression resulting from disfigurement and scarring especially on exposed skin.
While no amount of money can negate lifelong suffering, sizable general damages reflect the gravity and provide some comfort.
Why Choose Addison & Khan Solicitors?
Our dedicated work place injury solicitors have decades of experience securing fair seven-figure sums for clients facing permanent impairment after egregious accident at work procedure UK caused by negligence. We will compassionately yet tenaciously fight on your behalf until satisfactory compensation is achieved. Contact us today online or at 00 44 20 8514 4836 for an initial consultation. Justice is possible – claim the lifetime support and stability you deserve so you can focus on health and recovery.
