How Much Compensation You Can Claim in the UK – Compensation Amounts & Claim Payout Guide

Compensation payouts in the UK can range from a few thousand pounds for minor injuries to six-figure sums for serious or life-changing claims. The amount you can claim depends on your injury, financial losses and the long-term impact on your life.

This guide explains how much compensation you can claim in the UK, including typical payout amounts for injuries, work-related illnesses, medical negligence and fatal accident claims. It covers compensation for physical and psychological injuries, and explains how payouts are calculated based on pain and suffering, financial losses and ongoing expenses. You’ll also find guidance on key issues such as benefit entitlement after receiving compensation.

How to use our claim payout amounts guide

Both the body parts and types of injury are set out alphabetically, with links to articles we have written giving examples of how much compensation you can expect to receive.

Simply click on the injury type of most interest to find out how much you can claim.

We start with some general concepts explaining the differing types of compensation you can claim no matter your injury coupled with issues relating to benefits and taxation.

What does your solicitor consider when calculating your overall compensation payout amount?

Prior to the alphabetical body parts – you will find headings (that serve as links to articles) explaining issues related to calculating compensation amounts for your claim.

Articles include – what compensation is; how compensation amounts are calculated for the pain and suffering for your injuries themselves plus how financial losses; including lost salary are worked out by your solicitor.

We also look at the effect a compensation payment may have on your welfare benefits entitlement and tax implications of compensation payouts.

What Is Compensation in Personal Injury Claims?

Find out how money is used to attempt to put you back into the position prior to your accident and how the value of pain and suffering is determined by the courts in earlier claims for similar injuries.

Calculate Your Pain and Suffering Compensation

Find out the evidence necessary to allow the amount of compensation you can claim to be calculated for pain and suffering as a result of your physical or psychological injury following an accident in the UK.

Calculate Your Compensation for Financial Loss and Expense

Discover the different types of expenses and losses you can claim as a result of personal injury. We explore the evidence needed to support each loss and provide solicitor calculations of both past and future losses.

Understanding Damages Compensation

Damages compensation describes both the types of general damage and special damage you can claim. General damages being your pain, suffering and loss of amenity for physical and psychological injury. Whereas, special damages describes financial loss and expenses as a direct result of your injury.

Salary Compensation: Claiming Loss of Earnings

Find out average payout calculations for lost pay – past wage loss, future pay and disadvantage to your ability to find another job from continuing symptoms.

Personal Injury Compensation: What Happens To Your Welfare Benefits?

Discover how compensation payments can affect your benefit entitlement coupled with an explanation as to how your solicitor can eliminate this risk.

Compensation Payments: Are They Taxable?

Find out whether you will have to pay tax on your damages payment when received, how pain and suffering payments and lost income are calculated differently and how to minimize future tax liability.

Alphabetical Body Parts / Injury Type Compensation Payout Amounts

Simply select the heading (that serves as a link) of either the body part or injury type – to be taken to our detailed article setting the compensation payout amounts you can expect for all types of injury severity.

Abuse Claims (Physical and Sexual)

Find how much compensation you can claim both from either the civil courts or the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for both physical and sexual abuse.

Achilles Tendon Injury

Your Achilles tendon attaches your calf muscle to your heal bone at the back of your ankle. In this guide – you will see calculated examples of compensation amounts for ruptures, tears, severance of the Achilles coupled with minor and serious restriction in ankle movement.

Ankle Fracture / Broken Ankle

Discover different types of ankle fracture, broken ankle and serious ankle injury coupled with detailed compensation calculations for each.

Ankle Sprain

Overview of the three grades of ankle sprain you can suffer together with examples of average compensation payouts for each.

Arm Injury

Guidance to the amounts of compensation you can claim for both forearm and upper arm injuries. We explore all manner of arm injury – for example, simple fractures to the most severe arm injury resulting in amputation.

Asbestos Compensation

Calculated examples of the amounts of compensation you can expect for asbestos related diseases – such as asbestosis, pleural thickening, lung cancer and mesothelioma. We consider conditions that affect both the linings of your lungs and the linings of other organs.

Asbestosis

Focuses on compensation payable for asbestosis, a debilitating lung condition caused by asbestos fibres. Discover how much you can claim for asbestosis with impaired lung function, mobility issues and reduced life expectancy.

Asthma

Explanation of how asthma can be caused by environmental exposure, such as inhalation of dust and chemicals at work. Find examples of compensation amounts for different degrees of asthma injury coupled with details of how payout amounts can be affected by the severity and impact on respiratory function of

Back Injury

This guide explains not only the common types of accident that cause back injury, but also gives calculations of how much compensation you can receive for minor to serious back injuries.

We consider soft tissue damage to serious spinal injury including paralysis and look at payments for pain, suffering, and financial losses.

Black Lung Disease

An in depth look at how exposure to excessive coal or carbon dust is a common hazard for coal miners, miners in general and oethr industrial workers. When a scan is taken of your lungs – parts of the lung can show as black. The condition is often referred to as either coal miners’ black lung or pneumoconiosis.

This article explains typical symptoms, how the disease develops, and the types of evidence needed for a successful claim coupled with the likely compensation payout you may be awarded.

Bladder Cancer

Harmful chemicals in the workplace can pollute both your blood and urine causing cancer in the bladder. Find out the types of jobs in which hazardous chemicals are known to cause bladder cancer with compensation calculations as to the average amount of compensation monies you can claim.

Bladder Injury

Discover how an impact trauma, heavy lifting or clinical operative error can cause damage to your bladder – with examples of average payouts for bladder failure, impairment and prolapse.

Blindness (see Eye Injury)

Eye injury can cause blindness and loss of vision. See how much compensation you can claim for complete loss of sight in one and two eyes.

Bowel Damage

Find details of the different types of injury you might experience to your bowel, such as those causing causing temporary loss of bowel function, the need for a colostomy bag, partial and permanent incontinence. In addition, we provide insight as to how payouts are assessed based on severity and give calculated examples of the compensation payout you can claim.

Brain Injury

A comprehensive explanation of how compensation for brain injuries – including trauma, brain damage, epilepsy, headaches and acquired brain injury / ABI – is calculated with examples of how much compensation you can claim for each.

Broken Bones (see Fracture Claims)

Find out the difference between a broken bone and a fractured bone coupled with how much compensation you can claim for different severity of broken bones.

Broken Nose (see Nose Fracture)

A broken nose is a type of nose fracture. Discover what constitutes a broken nose, the different cartilage and bone that can be broken as well as manual manipulation and surgery. We explore how much you can claim when you recover completely or have a functional breathing issue or physical nasla deformity.

Broken Toe

Focuses specifically on compensation for fractured toes, including yhe bones and joints that make up your toes coupled with how much compensation you can claim for fractures and broken bones to one or multiple toes.

Burn Injury

Discover the four degrees of burn you can experience affecting the different layers of your skin and deeper tissue. How Find our worked calculations of compensation amounts for facial injury, bodily scarring and death.

C Difficile

Learn how C difficile is contracted in hospitals and other health care environments coupled with examples of compensation amounts for symptoms and conditions caused by CDI.

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Discover what carbon monoxide poisoning is and how to claim compensation should you suffer symptoms as a tenant in rented accommodation or as an employee from exposure to CO at work. Find examples of the most typical injuries CO poisoning can cause coupled with the compensation payout you can expect.

Cheekbone Fracture

Discover the most common types of accident, which can cause broken cheek bones together with compensation calculations for average claim payouts for fractured cheekbones.

Chest Injury

There are various different body parts which can be injured in the chest. Find out how much compensation you can claim for chest injuries including: rib cage, sternum, breast bone, lungs and heart.

Child Injury Claim

Discover how to calculate compensation payouts for injury to children coupled with the unique nature of child claims and the need for court involvement to conclude a child claim.

Chronic Bronchitis (see Lung Disease)

Find out the amounts of compensation minor to serious chronic bronchitis claims are worth with an explanation as to when you can claim for hazardous exposure in the workplace.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder / COPD (see Lung Disease)

Find out what COPD is and the value of compensation payments you can claim for this condition when caused from exposure to harmful dusts and chemicals in the workplace.

Coccyx Fracture

Discover what the coccyx is, how your solicitor calculates the amount of compensation you can claim for coccyx injury coupled with examples of average payouts for coccyx fracture claims.

Collarbone (Broken and Fractured)

Discover the amounts of compensation you can claim for a fractured clavicle including medical expenses for a treating support such as a brace or strap.

Concussion / Post Concussion Syndrome

Concussion can typically follow a traumatic impact to the head, but there is a strong possibility that symptoms can persist beyond the initial concussion. Find out how much you can claim for both concussion and post concussion syndrome.

Crush Injury Claim

Discover the serious nature of crush injuries together with the amount of compensation you can claim to injured body parts including hands, feet, legs, arms, back and neck.

Death Bereavement Loss

Learn all about the amount that a spouse, partner or family member can claim for the death of a loved one

Death Compensation

If you are involved in a serious accident, but are not killed immediately – find out the amounts of compensation that can be claimed for pain and suffering before death.

Dental Injury (see Tooth Injury)

Find out how much compensation you can claim for both damaged teeth and jaw bones.

Dermatitis (see Skin Disease)

Discover how much compensation you can claim for dermatitis skin diseases.

Dislocated Joint

Find out the different joints which can be dislocated in the body, how dislocations can cause ligament damage and fractured bones coupled with examples of settlement payouts for dislocations of various different joints in your body.

Eczema Claim (see Skin Disease)

Eczema can be caused by exposure to chemical irritants. Discover both how you can claim and the amounts of compensation you can recover.

Elbow Injuries

Find out the parts of the elbow that can be injured in an accident or from a faulty working practice together with examples of how much compensation you can claim. Includes conditions such as tennis elbow syndrome and golfer’s elbow.

Emphysema

Discover how emphysema can be caused from harmful mineral and metallic dusts with examples of compensation values you can claim.

Epilepsy

How a bang to your head in an accident or oxygen deprivation at birth can cause grand mal or petit mal epilepsy, with examples of compensation settlements for each type of epileptic condition – both permanent and temporary

Eye Injury

Discover the different parts that make up your eye and how much compensation you can claim when you suffer eye problems in an accident, including temporary symptoms, permanent damage to eyesight and blindness.

Facial Fractures

This guide looks specifically at fractures to bones of the mid-face, including Le Fort fracture and blowout fractures. You will find solicitor calculated examples of average claim payouts and quick reference payout tables with typical compensation ranges.

Facial Scarring

Learn how a lawyer calculates the amount of compensation for facial scarring coupled with solicitor-assessed examples of compensation amounts.

Fatal Accident Compensation

Find out how much family members can claim for the loss of a loved one. We look at both bereavement loss payments and dependency claims. In addition, we consider who is entitled to claim with examples of likely payout amounts. Finally, we consider the different legal jurisdictions of the UK and their effect on your likely payout

Fatal Accident (Earnings Dependency Claims)

How your solicitor calculates compensation payouts for financial dependants, such as a partner or children relying on the income of a provider, killed in an accident.

Female Fertility Injury

We calculate teh amounts of compensation you can claim for infertility in woman, unwanted pregnancies due to failed sterilisations and failure to detect ectopic pregnancies leading to reproductive system injury.

Finger Injury

Examples of compensation settlements for injuries to your fingers and thumbs – includes broken bones, strains, traumatic amputation and multiple injuries.

Food Poisoning

Discover how bacteria on food can cause poisoning to your digestive system and how much compensation you can claim.

Foot Injury

Find out the bones that make up the foot and how much UK compensation you can claim for fractures, sprains, heel injuries and amputations.

Fracture Claims

Discover the most common types of fractures you might suffer coupled with how to calculate the amount of compensation you can claim for each. We provide compensation payout ranges for fractures to various different bones of teh body.

Frozen Shoulder

The amounts of compensation for a frozen shoulder – using a work lifting accident as an example.

Functional Neurological Disorder / FND

FND can develop after a concussion. Discover what the symptoms are and how much compensation you can claim for Functional Neurological Disorder.

Golfers Elbow Compensation (see Elbow Injury)

Discover how golfers elbow injuries can occur, how they are one type of a wider group of elbow injury couples with the compensation settlement you can claim.

Hair Damage

Find out how your hair and scalp can be injured coupled with examples of compensation amounts for hair loss and damage and scalp dermatitis.

Hand Arm Vibration / HAVS

Discover what hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), Raynaud’s Syndrome, Whole Body Vibration Syndrome and Vibration White Finger Syndrome are. See examples of how much compensation you can claim for minor to disabling conditions caused from the continuous use of both vibrating machinery and hand held vibrating tools at work.

Hand Injury

See why your hands are considered of both cosmetic and functional importance. Discover the amounts of compensation you can receive for not only strain and fractures, but also permanent hand disabilities.

Head Injury

Find out how much you can claim for both acquired head and brain injuries. In addition, learn how your lawyer calculates the amount you can claim for pain and suffering.

Hearing Loss (see Industrial Deafness)

How much the courts will pay for noise induced hearing loss.

Heel Injury

Your heel is a major part of your foot and injury can lead to serious medical procedures, such as fusion operations. See how much you can claim for all manner of heel injury.

Hernia Injury

Find out what common hernia injury claims are, the symptoms you will suffer and how much compensation your can claim.

Hip Injury

Discover what the hip bone is and the value of compensation payments you can claim for pelvic injuries from the minor to the most severe.

Incontinence Claim

See the likely payouts you can recover for total incontinence, passive and urge incontinence.

Industrial Deafness

Exposure to either prolonged excessive noise or single explosive sounds can cause hear. Find out how much compensation you can receive for a noise induced hearing loss claim.

Infertility Claim (see Female Fertility)

Learn all about female infertility coupled with compensation tables for average payout amounts.

Jaw Injury

Find out about the bones that make up the upper and lower jawbone combined with examples of compensation settlements for a broken jaw, multiple fractures and jaw pain.

Knee Injury

Find out all the different parts of the knee that can be injured in an accident – with examples of compensation amounts for all injury types.

Leg Injury

Discover the average compensation payouts you can receive for upper and lower leg injury claims from strains and sprains and broken bones to traumatic amputations.

Lung Cancer (see Lung Disease)

The amount of compensation for lung cancer caused by exposure to harmful chemicals and dusts at work.

Lung Disease

Discover the most common types of lung disease claim from exposure to both harmful chemicals and dusts at work. In addition, see examples of compensation amounts for chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis

Meniscus Tear

Find out the importance of the meniscus cartilage in your knee and see how much compensation you can claim for either a torn medial or lateral meniscus.

Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is a malignant cancer that can be caused by one strand of asbestos fibre. It can not only affect your lungs and abdomen, but also your heart. Discover how much compensation you can claim for all types of mesothelioma.

Motorbike Injury

Motor bike accidents can cause all manner injury – both serious and minor injury. Learn about the typical injuries coupled with solicitor-assessed compensation payout tables.

Multiple Injuries

Find out how to calculate the amount of compensation you should receive if you injure various different parts or your body in the same accident and why you should include all your injuries and losses in one claim.

Neck Injury

Discover the most common types of accidents that cause neck injuries coupled with the amounts of compensation you can claim – from a minor neck injury to the most serious of neck injuries causing paralysis.

NHS Compensation Payouts

How to calculate the compensation payout from the NHS for clinical negligence leading to injury. Includes claims against GP’s – even though they are considered private contractors and not employees of the National Health Service.

Noise Induced Hearing Loss (see Industrial Deafness)

Exposure to loud noise at work over a long period of time can caused noise induced hearing loss.

As can both explosive sounds and sounds of a certain frequency.

In this claims guide – we set out updated payout tables for hearing loss coupled with the how to make your claim.

Nose Fracture

Learn about the different parts of your nose which can be injured, coupled with compensation payout tables for simple fractures to multiple fractures with a loss of your sense of smell. In addition, we consider displaced fractures causing facial deforminty and difficulty breathing.

Paralysis Injury

Discover the amounts that can be claimed for paraplegia, tetraplegia and quadriplegia together with how to claim claim for lost income and nursing expenses.

Pneumoconiosis

Find out how pneumoconiosis can be caused from exposure to carbon dust in the workplace coupled with examples of compensation amounts for this condition.

Post Traumatic Amnesia / PTA (see Head Injury)

A traumatic event causing a brain injury can lead to both a loss of memory and disorientation. Find out how much you can claim for post traumatic amnesia.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder / Syndrome / PTSD

Discover what the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder are coupled with examples of the values of compensation payouts you can claim.

PTSD Therapy Compensation / CBT / EMDR

Find out the treatments you can receive for PTSD (including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing) and how to include the costs of treatment as part of your personal injury claim.

Psoriasis (see Skin Disease)

Psoriasis is a type of skin disease – however claiming compensation is more difficult than other skin diseases such as dermatitis and eczema. We set out the compensation amounts you can claim for all three skin conditions.

Rehabilitation Expenses

Rehabilitation expenses are typical for both serious spinal and head Injuries. The amounts of compensation you can expect for rehabilitation will often be quite extensive. Discover how this expense can form part of your claim coupled with examples of typical compensation payout amounts.

Reproductive System Injury Claim (see Female Fertility)

See average payouts for infertility claims, failed sterilisations leading to pregnancy and injury caused by a delay in diagnoses of an Ectopic pregnancy.

Reproductive System Injury Claim / Male

Compensation calculator for settlement awards for damage to the male reproductivity system, including sterility, impotence, testicle surgical removal and total loss of reproductive system.

Repetitive Strain Injury / RSI

Examples of the amounts of compensation for various RSI injuries.

Raynaud’s Syndrome

Find out how to make a claim for Raynaud’s syndrome coupled with access to solicitor-assessed average compensation payout tables.

Ribs Broken / Cracked / Fractured

See how much compensation you can claim for a simple fracture of your ribs to more serious fractures causing damage to the functions of both your chest and lungs.

Scalp Injury

Hair damage and scalp injuries generally occur together. Find out how much you can claim for various injuries to both your hair and scalp.

Scarring

Compensation amounts for scarring to the body including hands, fingers, feet, arms, legs, chest, back, stomach – using a grinder accident as an example.

Shin – Broken Shinbone

Find worked examples of compensation settlements for different types of fractures to both your shinbone and tibia in your lower leg.

Shoulder Dislocation

Learn about the different types of dislocated shoulder you can suffer coupled with how damage to ligaments, tendons and muscles can cause future instability. Find our solicitor-assessed average compensation payout amounts for all manner of shoulder dislocation.

Shoulder Injury

Your shoulder is a complex ball and socket joint that can experience many different types of injury. Discover how much you can recover for all manner of shoulder injury in the UK.

Skin Disease

Find out the different types of dermatitis and eczema you can suffer coupled with the amounts of compensation you can expect for minor to severe symptoms.

Skull Fracture

Discover the most common types of skull fracture to the 8 bones making up the cranium – the part of the skull surrounding the brain. We consider how to calculate compensation payouts, provide compensation tables and discuss the overlap with head and brain injury claims.

Slip Trip Fall Personal Injuries

Find out the most common types of injury you might experience in a slip trip fall accident coupled with compensation calculations for each.

Smell – Injury To Sense Of Smell

Compensation calculations for the loss of your sense of smell with examples of compensation for damage to both senses of taste and smell.

Smoke Inhalation

Find out the dangers to your lungs of smoke inhalation, 8 breathing conditions that you might suffer coupled with examples of calculations of average compensation payout amounts.

Spinal Injury

Learn about the different types of spinal injury you can suffer coupled with examples of the amounts of compensation for each type of injury.

Sternum Injury

Discover not only what your sternum or breastbone is, but also the types of injury you might experience and how to calculate the compensation you are entitled to claim. In addition, find compensation payout calculations for all manner of sternum fracture.

Taste – Loss Of Ability To Taste

Learn about average compensation payment sums for both damage to and the loss of your ability to taste.

Tennis Elbow Claim (see Elbow Injury)

Find out how tennis elbow is generally caused and the amounts of compensation you can claim.

Thumb Injury

Average payout examples for all manner of thumb injuries, including fractures, dislocations, nerve damage, loss of function, operations and amputation.

Tinnitus

Tinnitus is in essence hearing damage that leads to a constant ringing, hissing or buzzing sound in your ears. Discover the different severity of tinnitus hearing damage coupled with examples of average compensation amounts you can claim.

Toe Injury

Find average compensation payouts calculated for all manner of injuries to your toes. For example – fractures, crush injuries, partial and complete amputations.

Tooth Injury

Discover how much you can claim for different type of tooth damage – both individual and multiple teeth. Our guide explains the types of negligence that can cause tooth injury coupled with the typical types of tooth injury.

Trigger Finger

Discover how both trigger finger and thumb can be caused. See average amounts of compensation you can claim from your employer for trigger finger due to use of power tools.

Vaccine Damage Payment (Disability Caused By Vaccinations)

Discover the vaccine damage payment scheme and how much you can recover should you suffer severe disablement as a result of vaccine use.

Vibration White Finger / VWF

Find out how VWF can be caused by vibrating machines coupled with the value of compensation payouts you can claim in the UK.

Whiplash Compensation (NoT In A RTA)

Find out how much compensation you can receive for whiplash suffered in an accident, such as a work accident. However, this does not include road accidents after the 31 May 2021 (please see our whiplash claim payouts for road accidents).

Whiplash In Road Accidents

Access our updated whiplash payout tables (whiplash coupled with modest psychological injury). In addition, find instances when the whiplash tariff will not apply.

Work Injury Compensation

Compensation payout tables for typical workplace injuries coupled with the lost income claims.

Wrist Injury

Access both our wrist injury claim guide and compensation payments calculations (with updated payout tables).

Latest Compensation Calculator Articles, Online Q&A And FAQ

See our compensation payouts index for both our latest compensation articles and our average claim payouts Q&A/FAQ.

SUMMARY – Claim Payout Amounts Guide

In summary – this guide explains how compensation amounts are calculated and what you can expect to receive for different types of injury and illness claims in the UK. It brings together typical payout ranges for physical and psychological injuries, as well as work-related conditions, medical negligence and fatal accidents. By exploring the detailed guides linked throughout, you can better understand the value of your claim and the factors that may increase or reduce your final compensation payout.

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