Amputation injury claims

If liability for your injury is accepted, we will secure interim payments. This will help you to buy the best prosthetic equipment available. It can also help pay for other equipment and rehabilitation needs. If you need new accommodation, it can help pay for that too. This money can also help you to meet your day to day living costs.

We will help to protect your entitlement to welfare benefits by setting up a personal injury trust. We will also ensure that you get independent specialist financial investment advice.

Our expertise lies in thoroughly investigating your claim and maximising your chances of success. We will adopt the best strategy to secure this outcome. We will also help to maximse the compensation award. We will gather evidence and speak to witnesses. When required we will appoint leading barristers as part of your team, and seek advice from expert witnesses. We will provide funding for this. Your opponent will be required to reimburse the costs at the end of the claim.

Award winning catastrophic injury solicitor Richard Edwards has spent over 20 years acting for people with amputation injuries. Some of the cases he has been involved in include:

• Acting for a father who suffered a serious ankle fracture that failed to heal following a cycling accident. He elected to have surgical amputation below the knee. The claim settled for £5.5m with damages covering the cost of new accommodation, prosthetics, care and loss of earnings.
• Acting for a student who suffered a below elbow amputation following a road collision abroad. The claim settled for £4.5m with damages covering prosthetics, loss of earnings, care and accommodation costs.
• Acting for a father who suffered a below elbow amputation following a workplace accident. The claim settled for £2.6m. The settlement included the costs of cutting edge prosthetics, accommodation, care and loss of earnings.
• Acting for a pensioner who suffered a below knee amputation following a collision with a lorry. Liability was denied and the claim went to trial in the High Court (Barbara Hill v Master Concrete Northern Ltd [2010] EWHC 3613). The Claimant was successful in establishing liability and went on to recover substantial damages.

Contact us for a free no obligation consultation. If we accept instructions to act, we will do so on a no win, no fee basis. We are also happy to speak to you if you want a second opinion or wish to transfer representation to us.