At No Win No Fee Lawyers Direct, we understand that a wrist injury may seem trivial to begin with, but can have profound impacts. These types of injuries can affect your physical comfort as well as restrict your daily functionality, often leading to disrupted routines. Simple tasks like lifting, typing or driving can now be challenging which can inhibit your ability to live independently. This is where wrist injury claims could help you; compensation can’t undo the harm, but it can be used to recoup financial losses caused by your injury, cover any medical expenses you are faced with and secure financial redress for the pain and suffering caused by someone else’s negligence.
With our panel of solicitors, you could recover compensation that provides long-term security, taking into account any impact your injury may have had on your future employment prospects. Additionally, the solicitors on our panel are not just focused on winning your case, but ensuring that your settlement provides the support you need for the future.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I Claim Compensation For A Wrist Injury?
- Examples Of Wrist Injury Claims
- What Wrist Injuries Are The Most Common?
- How Much Compensation Could I Get For An Injured Wrist?
- What Will I Need When Claiming For A Wrist Injury?
- Is There A Time Limit For Claiming Wrist Injury Compensation?
- How Can No Win No Fee Lawyers Direct Help Me?
- Making Wrist Injury Claims On A No Win No Fee Basis
- Learn More
Can I Claim Compensation For A Wrist Injury?
Yes, you could seek compensation. Wrist injury claims can be made if it can be shown that someone else’s negligent actions or inactions led to the accident and subsequent injuries. In order to demonstrate this, your personal injury claim must usually satisfy the following criteria to be valid:
Another Party Owed You a Duty of Care
Another party, whether an individual, employer or business owed you a legal obligation to uphold your health and safety in a particular situation.
In line with this legal responsibility, the responsible party should have taken reasonable steps to protect you. For example, your employer owes you a duty of care under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, to take all reasonably practicable steps in ensuring you are kept safe and healthy during the course of your employment.
This duty of care establishes a link of obligation between yourself and the responsible party.
This Duty Was Breached
The second element that has to be shown is that the person owing you this legal duty of care breached their responsibilities. This occurs when the party responsible for your safety (whether this be your employer, another road user or an occupier of a public premises) fails to meet their safety obligations.
An example of this could be if another driver uses the road recklessly, resulting in a collision that causes your wrist injury.
You Suffered a Wrist Injury As a Result of The Breach
Finally, for you to have grounds to bring a wrist injury compensation claim, we must show that your injury was a direct result of the breach. If you’re eligible and we can show a chain between the breach of duty and your injury, you could seek compensation for any other additional injuries sustained.
Moreover, you could claim for a minor wrist injury, or a more serious injury and you could also pursue compensation for the psychological distress caused by your accident provided the conditions you are claiming for are medically recognised.
For a free case consultation, please get in touch with our advisory team today. They are available to listen to your experience, and if you’re eligible, connect you with a specialist wrist injury solicitor from our panel.
Examples Of Wrist Injury Claims
There are an array of ways that you could suffer a wrist injury. However, these injuries can often occur following a road traffic accident, a workplace accident or even after an accident in public.
Below, we have provided a few examples showing how wrist injury claims can arise after another person’s negligence, and how you could have the grounds to make your own claim:
Wrist Injuries After a Road Traffic Accident
Wrist injuries stemming from road traffic accidents typically occur due to bracing against the steering wheel, airbag deployment or the general force of a collision.
Some examples of how a road traffic accident may lead to a wrist injury include if:
- A driver who is speeding on the motorway loses control of their car. This causes them to swerve into your lane, resulting in a head-on collision; as a result, you suffer a severe wrist fracture that permanently impairs your ability to use your wrist as well as a serious head injury.
- When driving on a country lane, another motorist approaches you at speed. They fail to stop as they are distracted by their phone, causing them to knock you off your motorcycle. As you are thrown off your bike, you land on an outstretched hand, which results in long-term deformity and a broken wrist, also leading to months off work to recover.
Wrist Injuries In The Workplace
Accidents at work can lead to wrist injuries in a slip, trip and fall or manufacturing injury. Some examples of this could be, for example:
- Your employer orders you to work on a ladder with known defects. Due to this, you fall from a height, and hyperextend your wrist upon impact with the ground. You suffer a torn ligament as a result of this.
- Whilst working in a factory, your wrist becomes trapped in machinery that had not been repaired and had a missing safety guard. You experience a crush injury as a result of this, causing significant degloving and severe fractures to your wrist.
Wrist Injuries In Public Accidents
There are many ways that a public liability accident could lead to wrist injuries, such as a fall due to defective walkways or poor maintenance of public spaces.
Some illustrative examples include if:
- Whilst in a local supermarket, you slip, trip and fall on a spillage that was unmarked. You fall forward, landing on your hands to break your fall; this leads to a fracture of both wrists as well as persistent shoulder pain.
- You’re walking along a public footpath when your foot becomes jammed in a raised pavement slab. As a result, you tripped, causing a fall. The impact of this fall leads to a scaphoid fracture causing persistent pain below the thumb.
The examples we’ve explored are by no means exhaustive, so to talk about the specifics of your own accident and wrist injury, please get in contact with our advisors today.
What Wrist Injuries Are The Most Common?
The most common wrist injuries include sprains, strains or fractures. Some other wrist injuries may include:
- Tendonitis which is inflammation of the tendons following repetitive movement
- Scaphoid fracture or distal radius fractures
- Soft tissue damage including ligament damage or burns
- Amputation
- Sprains or strains
- Dislocation requiring medical realignment
- Lacerations
These aren’t the only wrist injuries you could pursue compensation for, so please get in touch with our advisory team to discuss your own wrist injury.
How Much Compensation Could I Get For An Injured Wrist?
You could receive anywhere from £4,370 for soft tissue injuries of the wrist to £73,050 for the complete loss of function of your wrist, according to the guidelines provided by the Judicial College (JCG).
This is a publication used by professionals when valuing general damages, which is the portion of your compensation that is for the physical and psychological effects of your injuries.
Additionally, when this head of loss is being calculated, professionals can also consider the extent of pain and suffering, as well as any impact that the injuries have had on your daily life and ability to complete daily tasks.
Moreover, compensation in successful wrist injury claims can comprise both general damages and special damages. The latter of these is compensation for the financial losses caused by your injuries, which we discuss in further detail in our section below.
We’ve provided a table below with figures found within the JCG for wrist injuries, however please be aware that this table is a guideline only, and not a guarantee of compensation. The top entry has also not been taken from the JCG and is inclusive of both types of damages.
| Injury Type | Severity | Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple Serious Injuries and Special Damages | Multiple Severe Injuries and Financial Losses including home modifications, lost income and private medical treatment costs | Up to £200,000+ |
| Wrist Injuries | Very Severe (a) - injuries leading to a complete loss of function in the wrist | £58,710 - £73,050 |
| Severe (b) - injuries resulting in significant life-long disability, but some functionality remains | £29,900 - £47,810 | |
| Serious (c) - less serious injuries but there is still some resulting disability, and ongoing discomfort and pain | £15,370 - £29,900 | |
| Less Serious (d) - fracture or soft tissue recovery takes longer than a year, but is a complete recovery other than ongoing minor symptoms | £7,420 - £12,630 | |
| Moderate (e) - uncomplicated colles fracture | In the region of £9,070 | |
| Minor (f) - very minor displaced or undisplaced fractures or soft tissue injuries | £4,370 - £5,790 |
Can I Claim For Financial Losses In Wrist Injury Claims?
Yes, your wrist injury compensation could also encompass reimbursement for financial losses. This head of loss is called special damages as we briefly discussed above.
This head of loss can recover any financial losses incurred as a result of your accident and injury, as well as any future care and rehabilitation costs you may now be faced with.
Below, we discuss what special damages compensation could encompass and how this could help in the aftermath of a wrist injury:
- Lost earnings: compensation can be sought for any time needed off work during your recovery period, as well as any impact on your future earning potential for example if you worked primarily with your hands and now are unable to.
- Medical costs: private treatments you have opted for, ongoing prescription costs and any private surgery costs can be accounted for within special damages compensation.
- Rehabilitation expenses: the costs associated with specialist physiotherapists to restore the range of motion and grip strength can be reimbursed within your compensation.
- Costs of care: if you now need domestic assistance, professional care or gratuitous help from family or friends, any related costs can be quantified under special damages.
- Home adaptations or specialist equipment: the cost of wrist braces, splints or ergonomic equipment can also be considered as part of your settlement.
As well as the above, you could also receive compensation for any relevant travel costs, and any other provable miscellaneous expenses caused by your injury. However, any expenses you wish to recover must be proven. For example, you could submit your payslips, invoices for a cleaner and copies of your prescriptions for pain killers.
For more information about the financial losses you could pursue compensation for in wrist injury claims, please get in touch with our advisors today.
What Will I Need When Claiming For A Wrist Injury?
When claiming for a wrist injury, you will need to provide documentation that can be used to prove liability. This can usually include evidence such as:
- Comprehensive medical documents, including any prescriptions, copies of X-rays or MRI scans that can show soft tissue damage and copies of nerve conduction studies
- A copy of the workplace accident report book, or the public place accident book
- The other motorist’s registration and insurance details if your wrist injury was caused by a road traffic accident
- CCTV or dashcam footage of the accident if it was caught on camera
- Documents outlining any orthopaedic or hand surgeon visits
- Contact details of anyone who may have witnessed the accident that led to your wrist injury
These are just a few examples of the evidence that can be used when claiming for a wrist injury; all of which a solicitor from our panel could assist you in obtaining. Get in touch with our advisors for more information about what evidence would be useful in your claim.
Is There A Time Limit For Claiming Wrist Injury Compensation?
Yes, there is typically a 3 year time limit imposed on wrist injury compensation claims. The 3 years starts running from the date of the accident. This limitation period is established within the Limitation Act 1980, which also provides two exceptions to these time limits.
Injured parties who are unable to claim independently will generally be exempt from this limitation period, which you can learn more about in our personal injury claims time limit guide.
Alternatively, if you have any questions about how the time limits apply to your own wrist injury claim, please get in touch with our advisors today.
How Can No Win No Fee Lawyers Direct Help Me?
Our panel of specialist wrist injury solicitors here at No Win No Fee Lawyers Direct have decades of experience securing compensation for claimants nationwide.
By working with a solicitor from our panel, your claim would be in expert hands. With a tailored approach, our panel can handle all legal intricacies on your behalf, whilst connecting you with expert medical professionals who can support you during your recovery.
We understand that a wrist injury can immediately limit your life, usually affecting simple tasks like lifting, typing or driving. This is where our expertise comes in helpful; our resources, training and experience can make a huge difference to the outcome of your claim.
Some of the services on offer from our panel include:
- Support from the outset
- Help with obtaining any medication or treatments you require
- Connecting you with specialist orthopaedic hand or wrist surgeons, or reconstructive surgeons if you require corrective surgery
- Assistance with gathering all documentation needed to build a reliable body of evidence
- Regular contact about the progress of your claim
- Help with arranging independent medical assessments to examine the extent of harm caused by your wrist injury
As well as this, by working with No Win No Fee Lawyers Direct, you would be connected with a dedicated solicitor from our panel who would fight tirelessly to secure compensation not only for your immediate costs but also for any future needs.
Get in touch with us to learn more about how a solicitor from our panel can assist you in wrist injury claims.
Making Wrist Injury Claims On A No Win No Fee Basis
Our panel of specialist wrist injury solicitors here at No Win No Fee Lawyers Direct offer their services on a No Win No Fee basis. We believe that everyone should have access to legal representation, and operating on this basis means that our claimants would not be at a financial disadvantage when instructing a solicitor from our panel.
This type of claim uses a contract called a Conditional Fee Agreement, which in practice means:
- You wouldn’t have to pay any solicitors’ fees upfront for one of our panel to start work on your wrist injury compensation claim
- You’d not be faced with ongoing payments towards solicitors’ fees during the progression of your claim
- You wouldn’t be liable for any payments for the work of a solicitor from our panel if your claim was to be unsuccessful
Instead, if wrist injury claims are successful, then a small pre-discussed percentage would be taken from the compensation. This is our panel’s success fee, and is agreed before your claim starts to make sure that you know exactly what percentage of your compensation you would receive upon a successful claim.
Additionally, this percentage is capped in line with the Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2013, to ensure that you’d receive the majority of your compensation. If you have any questions about how a No Win No Fee wrist injury claim works, please get in touch with our advisory team today.
Contact Our Advisors To Begin A Claim
Get in touch with our advisors today to take the first steps in securing the compensation you deserve. To contact our advisory team, you can:
- Call us on 020 8050 4194
- Contact us online
Learn More
Why not read our other guides about:
- How to make eye injury claims with our panel
- Starting your own hand injury compensation claim
- Serious injury claims and how our panel can help
Helpful External Resources
- NHS guidance on wrist pain
- Information on health and safety in the workplace
- What to do if you have a broken arm or wrist
Thank you for reading our wrist injury claims guide.