Ankle Injury Claims Specialists
Find out whether you can claim compensation with one of our No Win No Fee ankle injury claims solicitors today.
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Ankle Injury Claims Specialists
Find out whether you can claim compensation with one of our No Win No Fee ankle injury claims solicitors today.
Ankle Injury Claims – Everything You Need To Know
Ankle injuries can cause significant pain and disruption to your everyday life. If you’re suffering with an ankle injury, this guide may help you, as we will discuss how ankle injury claims are made.
You could be entitled to ankle injury compensation if someone else is to blame for your suffering. We will look at what eligibility criteria you need to meet to begin claiming and how compensation is calculated.
Furthermore, we will discuss how accidents in different places could potentially occur, and what evidence you need to gather to support your claim.
To conclude, we will look at different factors that can affect how long the personal injury claims process takes, and how our No Win No Fee solicitors could help you.
To discover everything you need to know about ankle injury claims, please continue reading. If you think you may have an eligible claim, please contact us today. You can talk to our advisors for free about your ankle injury, and you could then possibly be connected with one of our specialist personal injury solicitors. All of our contact services are live 24/7, meaning you can contact us at a time that suits you:
- Call 0151 375 9916
- Visit our ‘start a claim’ page and enter your details.
Average Ankle Injury Compensation Amounts
There isn’t an exact figure for the average amount of ankle injury compensation that’s awarded in successful claims, because all ankle injury claims is completely unique. Therefore, it may be more beneficial for you to know how compensation is calculated.
If you have a successful ankle injury claim, your compensation may be divided into two parts – general damages and special damages.
Under general damages, you’re compensated for the physical and psychological impacts of your ankle injury. As such, general damages cover factors such as:
- Your loss of amenity (e.g. your loss of enjoyment, such as not being able to participate in hobbies).
- Your pain.
- How long the recovery period is.
Those valuing your general damages can refer to your medical evidence and the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) to help them. The JCG is a publication that has guideline compensation figures for all sorts of physical and psychological injuries.
Ankle Injury Compensation Guidelines
We have taken some ankle injuries from the JCG to create the below table. All of these figures, aside from the first one, are from the JCG.
However, please bear in mind when viewing this table that none of the JCG’s figures can be guaranteed if your ankle injury claim is successful. This is because, as we have previously mentioned, every claim is unique in circumstance.
| Injury type | Severity | Guideline compensation figures | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple serious injuries with special damages | Serious | Up to £250,000+ | Compensation for suffering multiple serious injuries with associated financial losses such as medical expenses. |
| Foot | Amputation of one foot (b) | £102,470 to £133,810 | Including the loss of the ankle joint. |
| Moderate (f) | £16,770 to £30,500 | Permanent deformity from a displaced metatarsal fracture. | |
| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Severe (a) | £73,050 to £122,850 | Where all aspects of life are badly impacted |
| Moderate (c) | £9,980 to £28,250 | A large recovery will take place where any continuing effects are not too disabling. | |
| Ankle | Very severe (a) | £61,090 to £85,070 | Deformity caused by a transmalleolar fracture plus extensive soft-tissue damage. |
| Severe (b) | £38,210 to £61,090 | Where pins and plates have been needed, there’s ankle instability, and an extremely limited ability to walk. | |
| Moderate (c) | £16,770 to £32,450 | Fractures that make it difficult to walk or stand for a long time. | |
| Modest (d) | Up to £16,770 | Less serious sprains and fractures. |
Special Damages In Ankle Injury Claims
Under special damages, you’re compensated for the financial losses that have resulted from your ankle injury. This may include:
- Lost earnings if you’ve taken time off work to recover from your injury.
- Medical expenses, such as costs for medication.
- Travel costs to attend hospital appointments for your injury.
In order to be awarded special damages, you must provide proof of your financial losses. So, please keep all invoices and payslips you have as proof.
You can learn more about how compensation in ankle injury claims is calculated by contacting our advisors.
Am I Eligible To Make An Ankle Injury Claim?
You’re eligible to make an ankle injury claim if you can show that negligence has occurred. Negligence, which also forms the basis of the personal injury claims eligibility criteria, is when:
- You are owed a duty of care.
- This duty of care is breached.
- You sustain an injury directly because of this breach.
Multiple parties can owe you a duty of care. These could include:
- Employers. Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, your employer owes you a duty of care when you’re working. They must, to comply with their duty, take reasonable steps to ensure your workplace safety.
- Occupiers (those in control of public spaces). Under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, when you’re in public space such as a park or library, the occupier of that space owes you a duty of care. They must, to comply with their duty, take steps to ensure your reasonable safety on their premises.
- Road users. All road users owe a duty of care to one another when they’re on the roads. They must, to comply with their duty, follow the rules in The Highway Code and the Road Traffic Act 1988 to ensure that themselves and others on the roads are kept safe.
So, if you believe your employer, an occupier, or a road user breached their duty of care and is therefore responsible for your ankle injury, please have a chat with us. Our advisors can confirm the eligibility of your case today.
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Common Causes Of Ankle Injury Claims
Here are some examples of how negligence could potentially occur in an accident at work, a public place accident, or a road traffic accident:
Accidents At Work
- You work in maintenance, your employer asks you to use a faulty ladder to work from a height. The employer knew the ladder was faulty. The ladder thus collapses while you’re on it, causing you to fall at work and fracture multiple bones, including your ankle.
- On a construction site, your employer does not provide you with steel cap-toe boots. Due to this lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), you suffer crushing injuries to your ankle and foot as a piece of debris falls and lands on your foot.
Accidents In Public
- A broken paving slab has been reported multiple times to the local authority. However, the local authority has failed to fix this issue within a reasonable timeframe. You trip and fall over the broken paving slab, leading to an ankle injury.
- In a supermarket, there have been reports of a spillage. However, there’s no wet floor signs displayed near the spillage. You slip and fall on the wet floor, leading to a severe ankle injury.
Road Traffic Accidents
- You’re a pedestrian on a zebra crossing. However, a driver approaching the crossing is on their mobile phone at the wheel, and therefore isn’t paying any due attention. The car runs you over, leading to a broken ankle and other serious injuries.
- You’re waiting at a set of red traffic lights. However, there is a drunk driver on the other side of the road. Due to their impaired judgement, they swerve into the side of your car, leading to an ankle injury from the impact of the collision.
Please don’t worry if your circumstances haven’t been listed. Negligence can happen in many ways, so please contact us today to explain your specific accident and to learn more about when ankle injury claims could be made.
How To Make Ankle Injury Claims
On the assumption that you’ve already sought medical attention for your ankle injury, the first step to claim ankle injury compensation is to contact our advisors about your claim eligibility.
Then, while there’s no obligation, we recommend you connect with a specialist solicitor to help you throughout the entire ankle injury claims process. There may be many steps involved, but with the help of a solicitor, they can do most of the work for you while you focus on recovery.
Gather Evidence – Medical Records, CCTV, And More
An important step in the claims process is to collect evidence that shows how negligence occurred. Such evidence can include:
- CCTV footage, or dashcam footage, of the accident.
- Photographs of the visible effects of your injury.
- Photographs of what caused the accident (for example, of the faulty ladder that your employer provided you), and of the accident scene.
- Copies of your medical records and notes, including copies of any scan images.
- A personal diary with dated recordings of your symptoms and treatment.
- Contact details from witnesses.
One of our experienced solicitors could help you with gathering this evidence.
Time Limits When Beginning A Claim
Ankle injury claims must be made within the time limit, which is 3 years from the date the accident took place. The Limitation Act 1980 sets out this time limit.
However, exceptions to this time limit apply if the claimant is 17 or younger or lacks the mental capacity. For more information on these exceptions, please contact us today.
How Long It Takes To Get Ankle Injury Compensation
There isn’t a set time for how long it could take to claim ankle injury compensation. This is because numerous factors play into this, such as:
- Whether the defendant accepts liability or not.
- Whether the case goes to court.
- How long it takes to collect all evidence.
- How serious the ankle injury is. The more serious the injury, the longer the claims process may take.
Contact us today to get your potential ankle injury claim started.
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Why Trust JF Law With Your Claim?
If you’re eligible to make an ankle injury compensation claim, one of our solicitors could do the following work to make the claims process as easy as possible for you:
- Collect all your evidence.
- Communicate with the defendant on your behalf.
- Ensure the ankle injury compensation is fair.
- Ensure the claims time limit is adhered to.
- Update you regularly on the case.
- Explain any legal jargon.
What’s more, all of our solicitors work with their clients under a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA), which is an agreement on a No Win No Fee basis.
This means that if you connect with one of our solicitors, you don’t have to pay for their work:
- Upfront.
- While the claims process is still ongoing.
- If the case is unsuccessful.
If the case is successful, your solicitor will just keep a small percentage of your compensation. This is called the ‘success fee’. Success fees are capped legally to ensure that the client always receives the majority of the compensation.
To see how one of our ankle injury claims solicitors could help you, contact our advisors today by:
- Calling 0151 375 9916
- Visiting our ‘start a claim’ page and enter your details.
More Information
Browse a few of our other personal injury claims guides here:
- Learn about how public liability claims are made.
- Find out how to make a road traffic accident claim against an uninsured driver.
- Learn how to claim compensation for a foot injury at work.
Alternatively, these pages might be useful:
- NHS – how to treat a broken ankle.
- Gov.UK – how to claim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from the government for taking time off work for recovery.
- NHS – know when to call 999.
Thank you for reading our ankle injury claims guide. Please feel free to ask us any questions you have.
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