Compensation Amounts: Find out how much compensation you can claim for the most common types of injury in the UK

Discover the compensation amounts you can claim for various different types of injuries suffered in accidents in the UK – from whiplash to mesothelioma.

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

Prior to the alphabetical body parts – you will find 6 links to articles explaining what compensation is; providing compensation calculators for the amounts for the pain for your injuries and for financial losses; dealing with lost salary compensation,; the effect a compensation payment may have on your welfare benefits entitlement and an article dealing with whether tax is due on your compensation payment.

What Is Compensation?

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.

Compensation Calculator UK

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.

Claim Calculator UK

Discover the different types of expenses and losses you can experience as a result of an accident and how to calculate both past and future losses using lost income as an example.

Salary Compensation

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 & Welfare Benefits

How compensation payments can affect your benefit entitlement and how your solicitor can eliminate the risk.

Compensation Payments 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.

Achilles Tendon Claim

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

Ankle Pain Compensation

Three examples of ankle injury compensation amounts – with an explanation of how your accident solicitor calculates your compensation settlement and the financial expenses you can claim.

Ankle Sprain Claim

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

Arm Injury Claim

See the amounts of compensation you can claim for forearm and upper arm injuries from a simple fracture to the most severe injury requiring amputation.

Asbestos Compensation

See examples of the amounts of compensation you can expect for asbestos related diseases.

Asbestosis

Discover how much for asbestosis – a disease due to the continued exposure to asbestos fibres.

Asthma Compensation Claim

Find out how asthma restricts the airways and can be caused by exposure to dust and chemicals at work – with examples of compensation amounts for different degrees of asthma injury.

Back Injury Claims

See what common types of accident cause back injury and find out how much compensation you can receive for minor to serious back injuries.

Bladder Cancer Claim

Harmful chemicals in the workplace can pollute 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 a compensation calculator as to the average amount of compensation monies you can claim.

Bladder Injury Claim

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.

Brain Injury Claims

Examples of the amounts of compensation for brain damage, epilepsy, headaches and acquired brain injury / ABI.

Broken Bones

Broken bones are a kind of fractured bone – find out the difference between a broken bone and a fractured bone and how much compensation you can claim for different broken bones.

Broken Toe Claim

Find out the bones that make u your toes and how much compensation you can claim for fractures, crush injuries and traumatic amputations.

Burn Injury Claim

Discover the types of burn you can experience to your skin and other body parts. With examples of compensation amounts for facial injury, bodily scarring and death.

C Difficile Claim

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

Carbon Monoxide Poison

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.

Cheekbone Fracture Claim

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

Chest Claim

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.

Chronic Bronchitis Claim

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 Claim

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 Claim

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

Collar Bone / Broken

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.

Crush Injury

How much compensation for crushing injuries to the hands, fingers and thumbs.

Death Compensation Claim

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 Claim

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

Dermatitis Claim

Find out how much compensation you can claim for dermatitis skin diseases.

Dislocated Joint Claim

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

Eczema Claim

Eczema can be caused by exposure to chemical irritants – discover the amounts of compensation you can claim.

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.

Emphysema Claim

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

Epilepsy Accident Claim

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

Eye Injury Claims

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 Bone Fracture

Find out about the Le Fort fracture, Blowout fracture, broken nose and fractured jaw with examples of average money payouts for each.

Facial Scarring Compensation

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

Fatal Accidents

Amounts of compensation for a UK death accident claim.

Finger Injury Claim

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

Food Poisoning Claim

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

Foot Injury Claim

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 and how to calculate the amount of compensation you can claim for each.

Frozen Shoulder

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

Golfers Elbow Compensation

Discover how golfers elbow injuries can occur and the compensation settlement you can claim.

Hair Damage Claim

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

Hand Arm Vibration Claim

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

Hand Injury Claims

See why your hands are considered of cosmetic and functional importance and the amounts of compensation you can receive for strains, fractures and permanent hand disabilities.

Head Injury Claims

Find out how much you can claim for acquired head and brain injuries – includes how your lawyer calculates the amount you can claim for pain and suffering.

Hearing Loss

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

Hernia Injury Compensation

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

Hip Injury Compensation

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.

Industrial Deafness

Find out how much compensation you can receive for a UK noise induced hearing loss claim.

Infertility Claim

See compensation calculations for the amounts of compensation that can be claimed for female infertility.

Jaw Injury Claim

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

Knee Injury Claim

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 Claim

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

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

Lung Disease Claim

Discover the most common types of lung disease claim from exposure to harmful chemicals / dusts at work together with examples of compensation amounts for chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis

Meniscus – Tear Of Meniscus Claim

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

Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma can be caused by one strand of asbestos fibre – click this link to see how much you can expect to claim.

Motor Bike Accident Compensation

Examples of compensation amounts for head injuries sustained in a motorcycle RTA.

Multiple Injuries

Find out how to calculate the amount of compensation you should receive if you injury various different parts or your body in a serious accident such as a motor bike accident.

Neck Injury Claims

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

Nose Fracture Claims

Find out the different parts of your nose which can be injured and how much you can claim for simple fractures to multiple fractures with a loss of your sense of smell.

Paralysis Injury Claim

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 Claim

Find out how pneumoconiosis and other lung diseases can be caused in the workplace with examples of compensation amounts for this condition.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Find out compensation amounts for PTSD.

Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

Discover what the symptoms of post trauma stress disorder are with examples of the values of compensation payments you can claim in the UK courts.

Psychiatric Illness

Discover how much compensation for psychiatric illness caused in a traumatic motor bike accident.

Rehabilitation Of Spinal And Head Injuries

Find out how the cost of rehabilitation can be extremely large and how much of this expense you can claim if you incur the cost following an accident.

Reproductive System Injury Claim / Female

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

Examples of the amounts of compensation for various RSI injuries.

Reynaud’s Syndrome

Find out how to make a claim for Reynaud’s syndrome with a link to examples of the amounts of compensation you can claim.

Ribs Claim: Fractured Broken

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

Scalp Injury

Hair damage and scalp injuries often occur together – find out how much you can claim for various injuries to the hair and scalp.

Scarring Claims

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

Examples of compensation settlements for different types of fractures to your shinbone or tibia in your lower leg.

Shoulder Dislocation Claim

Find out the different types of dislocated shoulder you can suffer from in an accident; how damage to ligaments, tendons and muscles can cause future instability with examples of calculations of average compensation payout amounts.

Shoulder Injury Claim

Discover how much you can recover for all manner of shoulder injury in the UK.

Skin Disease Claim

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

Skull Fracture Claim

Discover the most common types of skull fracture together with the amounts of compensation you can receive for each – including the Le Fort facial fracture.

Smell – Injury To Sense Of Smell

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

Smoke Inhalation Claim

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

Spinal Injury Claims

Find out the different types of spinal injury you can suffer with examples of the amounts of compensation for each type of injury.

Sternum Injury

How to calculate the compensation you are entitled to for a fractured sternum injury.

Taste – Loss Of Ability To Taste

Average compensation payment values for damage to and the loss of your ability to taste.

Teeth Damage

The types of court payments you can claim for damaged teeth in the UK

Tennis Elbow

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

Thumb Compensation Claim

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

Tinnitus

How much you can claim for average compensation payout settlements for industrial tinnitus.

Toe Injury Claim

Average compensation payouts calculated for injuries to your toes – including fractures, crush injuries, partial and complete amputations.

Trigger Finger Claim

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

Vibration White Finger Compensation

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

Whiplash Compensation

Find out how much compensation you can receive for whiplash in car accidents and other rta’s.

Wrist Injury Compensation

Examples of compensation payments for wrist injuries suffered in an accident.

Summary Of Compensation Amounts For Injuries To Various Body Parts

On this page I have listed various different body parts that can be injured in an accident with examples of the compensation amounts you can expect to receive in the UK courts.

Click compensation payment values if you would like me to help you assess how much money you can expect for your injury.