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Medical Negligence Compensation: How to calculate the amount of UK clinical injury compensation you can claim
Medical negligence compensation: on this page you will learn the four main types of clinical injury compensation you can claim, how your accident solicitor calculates the amount you should receive for your injuries - examples are given of compensation amounts for some typical clinical injuries.
What are the types of medical negligence compensation can you claim?
There are four main types of loss and expense that you are entitled to claim as part of your clinical negligence compensation which includes:
Medical negligence compensation
1. Special damages
These are past financial expenses that you have incurred as a result of your accident. You will need receipts to prove the amount and include: lost income, medical expenses etc.
2. General damages
This is money to compensate you for pain and suffering for your physical and psychological injuries.
3. Interest
You are entitled to claim interest on both general damages and special damages.
4. Legal Costs
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How does your lawyer know how much medical negligence compensation to claim for your pain and suffering?
Your clinical negligence lawyer is able to value the pain and suffering for your medical negligence compensation by looking at the sums awarded for a similar injury in the UK courts in the past.
If a past claim was decided some years ago - your accident lawyer will increase the sum in line with inflation before using it to value your injury as at today's date.
How much money is your medical negligence compensation likely to be worth?
The value of your medical negligence compensation depends upon what the injury you have sustained.
There are so many different types of medical injury that can be caused that it is impossible to list them all here, but a few examples for typical awards made in 2007 include:
1.Loss of one kidney due to mistake in operation
Up to £25 000.
2. Failed sterilisation leading to birth of a healthy child
Approximately £10 000.
3. Minor post traumatic stress
For example, caused when a mother was wrongly told her child had died.
Up to £4 800.
4. Dental error leading to loss of a healthy front tooth
Up to £2 400.
5. Severe brain damage
For example, suffered by an asthma sufferer due to an ambulance taking too long to arrive.
Up to £165 000.
You have seen all the types of compensation you can claim as part of your medical negligence compensation and been given examples of the amount of you can expect to receive for some common injuries.
It is now important you choose the best lawyer to make your claim so I suggest you:
Click medical negligence compensation solicitorr to learn how to choose the best lawyer to make your medical negligence compensation clinical injury claim.
