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The amount of compensation you are entitled to claim for industrial deafness and repetitive strain injury in the UK
Find out how your UK accident lawyer calculates the amount of money your industrial injury claim is worth - examples are given of how much you can expect to receive for an industrial deafness and a repetitive strain injury in the UK workplace.
How does your industrial accident lawyer know how much compensation to claim for pain and suffering for your industrial deafness and repetitive strain injury?
A specialist personal injury solicitor is able to value pain and suffering for your industrial deafness and repetitive strain by looking at the sums awarded for similar injuries in the UK courts in the past.
How much money is your industrial deafness compensation claim likely to be worth?
The
amount of compensation you can claim for industrial deafness depends on
several factors: whether your hearing damage is partial or total,
whether you suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and whether you
have hearing loss in one or both of your ears.
As a rough guideline, in 2007, you can expect to receive the following amounts:
1. Partial hearing loss
a) Occasional tinnitus with some hearing loss: £4,000 - £7,000
b) More serious tinnitus and hearing loss: £7,000 - £17,000
c) Severe tinnitus with more serious hearing loss: £17,000 - £26,000
2. Permanent hearing loss
a) Total hearing loss in one ear with tinnitus: up to £26,000
b) Total hearing loss in both ears with tinnitus: up to £63,000
Click here to find out all about industrial deafness - what it is and how it is caused
How much money can you claim in compensation for your UK repetitive strain injury?
Each of the repetitive strain injuries can have a similar effect on the sufferer. The amount you can claim in compensation is therefore not dependent on the type of repetitive strain , but on the effect on you such as: whether surgery was necessary to resolve, the amount of pain you suffered and your ability to work following the injury.
As a rough guideline, in 2007, you could expect to receive the following amounts:
1. You recover completely within a few months: up to £2000
2. Your pain lasts up to two years: £2000 - £5500
3. Continuing permanent intermittent pain: £5500 - £9500
4. Surgery necessary with an effect on your ability to work: £9500 - £14000
Click here for the definition of a repetitive strain injury and a description of the three most common types of repetitive strain.You have found out all about industrial deafness - what it is, how it is caused and how much compensation your are entitled to claim for various degrees of hearing damage.
You should now be ready to approach an industrial injury solicitor to start you compensation claim. Before you do it is important to know how to choose the best solicitor. I recommend you either ask me to help you in your seacrh (click on the link under may photograph) or:
An industrial injury specialist solicitor will know the best medical experts to use to prove your claim and be familiar with the most recent court decisions for industrial disease claims.Click here to find out how to choose a specialist personal injury lawyer to make your claim.
