Child amputation claims

Child amputation compensation claims

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What can a claim achieve?

A successful child amputation claim can achieve far more than just financial compensation; it can help reshape your child’s future, providing the resources necessary for a life of dignity and opportunity despite their injury. Beyond covering immediate and long-term medical care, including prosthetics, rehabilitation, and adaptive technologies, a successful outcome can ensure access to ongoing therapy, specialised education, and home modifications, allowing your child to thrive in a supportive environment.

Furthermore, it can provide crucial financial security to alleviate the immense emotional and economic burden on your family, allowing you to focus on your child’s well-being and ensuring they have the best possible quality of life, pursuing their dreams with the necessary support and resources. A claim will also look at what limitations their injury may bring upon their lives as they become adults and grow old and factor in all the additional funds they will need to overcome them.

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Your rights and eligibility

Any scenario where an amputation results from someone else’s negligence could make a compensation claim valid.

That may include a serious injury, such as:

  • a road traffic accident – where the child was a passenger or was hit by a vehicle
  • an accident at school, an amusement park or other place where there was a duty of care to keep the child safe
  • a public place where unsafe equipment has led to an injury
  • an incident involving a mismanaged animal

Or medical negligence or surgical negligence, such as:

  • a mistake during surgery
  • the wrong limb being amputated
  • failures in managing diabetes
  • avoidable infection from surgery such as gangrene
  • failures in the management of an infection, sepsis or meningitis

How can compensation help?

Although compensation can’t undo an amputation, it can help you avoid financial hardship as a result of your amputation and help you live as full and independent a life as possible. This could be:

  • assessments by independent medical experts
  • access to specialist treatments, equipment and rehabilitative support that may not be available on the NHS
  • any necessary medical, treatment or therapy
  • rehabilitation and physical therapy
  • modern, quality prosthetics
  • house adaptations
  • vehicle adaptations
  • a care plan
  • help with getting back to hobbies

A compensation claim can also help you get answers about the cause of your amputation and get accountability for what happened.

Trusted expertise

As expert solicitors focusing on serious injury, medical negligence, mental capacity and education, you can trust us to get the best results for you.

We know how hard it is to deal with the harm you or a loved one has suffered. We’ll support you with empathy every step of the way.

We can help you on a no win no fee basis, meaning you don’t need to worry about funding legal costs

Our support doesn’t end after a claim. We can help you with your financial affairs after settlement and introduce you to charities and organisations that might be able to help you going forward.

Choosing a lawyer for your amputation claim

We are one of the UK’s leading specialist firms in serious injury and medical negligence and have a track record of achieving the best possible results for our clients bearing in mind their current and future needs as well as the needs of their families. Claiming compensation for a child amputation requires a specialist solicitor and that choice can have a big impact on your child’s life in the future. We have close links with the Limbless Association, the UK Sepsis Trust, Meningitis Now and a number of other charities providing advice and support to young people and adults who may have had an amputation as the result of what happened to them. We also have an extensive network of medical professionals specialising in prosthetics, orthotics and rehabilitation which can help us put things in place to help your child regain as much of their independence as possible.

To have a free, confidential and no obligation chat with a member of our team call us on 0800 044 8488 or fill in our contact form so we can call you back at a time convenient for you.

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Charities we work with

The Limbless Association is the largest civilian limb loss charity in the UK. Since it was established in 1983, it has worked with amputees and sector professionals to offer information, advice and support for amputees, their family and friends and professionals.

We’re proud to support its mission through the provision of high-quality legal advice to volunteers and service users who have lost limbs due to medical negligence or a negligently-caused serious injury.

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Amputation compensation FAQ’s

Compensation for injuries resulting into an amputation can run into hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds.

The amount of money you receive depends on a number of factors including the:

  • specifics of the incident and what amputation it led to
  • long term impact of the amputation on your life
  • severity of any ongoing pain
  • cost of equipment or prosthetics you may need as a result
  • value of any loss of earnings
  • level of house/vehicle adaptations required to get you back as close as possible to where you would have been had you not suffered your injury.

Special damages are very individual and intended to cover the potential losses and costs your amputation may lead to in your specific case. General damages, which are intended to compensate for pain and suffering, are paid in addition to special damages.

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