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Pelvis Injury Compensation Claims
Anyone who has sustained an injury affecting their pelvis or pelvic area in the last 3 years may be in a position to make a claim for compensation for pain and suffering and any other losses that they have suffered as a result. Damages for personal injury are always assessed on the individual facts of the case and how badly the injury has affected the Claimant’s life in general, including their working life.
Types of Pelvic Injury Compensation Claim
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Accident at Work – Compensation Claim
Where an accident victim has sustained a pelvis injury during the course of his/her employment then they may be in a position to make a claim for compensation against their employers if it can be shown that the injury could have been avoided. Pelvis injuries are associated mostly with the manual professions such as mining and other heavy industry. -
Sports Injury Compensation Claim
Pelvis injuries occur commonly in athletes and sportsmen. Violent muscle contraction can cause the avulsion of a piece of pelvis. It is not always necessary for the sport to have been a contact sport. The victim will often feel tenderness and the treatment is usually simply rest. -
Road Traffic Accident Compensation Claim
Pelvic injuries are all too common in road traffic accidents primarily due to the fact that in a number of accidents a victim’s legs and pelvis are compressed on impact.
Injury Compensation Awards
Severe
In the most severe cases the injured person will have suffered extensive
fractures of the pelvis involving, for example, dislocation of a low
back joint and a ruptured bladder, or a hip injury resulting in spondylolisthesis
of a low back joint with intolerable pain and necessitating spinal fusion.
Inevitably there will be substantial residual disability which may result
in lack of bladder and bowel control, sexual dysfunction or hip deformity.
To a lesser degree the injured person may suffer such injury as dislocation
of the pelvis resulting in impotence or traumatic myositis ossifican
with formation of ectopic bone around the hip. Further examples are factures
leading to degenerative changes and leg instability requiring the likelihood
of hip replacement surgery in the future.
Moderate
The injured person will have suffered significant injury to the pelvis
or hip but any permanent disability is not major and any future risk
not great.
Injuries of Limited Severity
These cases may involve hip replacement.
Lesser
There will have been significant injury but there is little or no residual
disability, or there has been minor injury with complete recovery.
Each individual victim will differ and as such it is important that a full diagnosis is made and that compensation is awarded that is commensurate with the injuries sustained.
If you or somebody you know has suffered a pelvis injury that was caused by somebody else then please complete the Claim Assessment Form. Our claims solicitors will then contact you in order to confirm whether or not you have grounds for making an accident compensation claim.
Please note that all of our claims solicitors act on a strictly no win no fee basis and that you or the victim will receive 100% of any damages that are awarded.
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