Hand Injury Compensation

Claiming for damage to the hands

The hand: shook in greeting when open and shook in confrontation when closed into a fist. An injury to this articulate limb could deprive you of these two base gestures that define the contradictory vicissitudes of human existence. One the courts would look sympathetically upon, one it would see as a moral affront. Whichever your disposition inclines you towards, however, it is unlikely to affect your chances of compensation should someone else's laxity or antagonism have caused injury to your hand.

Hand classification

Many workers employed in industry and manual labour work with their hands, as do many office workers, though the risk of injury to those hands is much higher for someone working with dangerous and physically violent machinery rather than a keyboard or a photocopier. Nevertheless, injuries occurring in any environment that arise because of insufficient safety precaution or harmful design are all equally due compensation.

Hand injury compensation claims

If your hands have been mistreated, instigating pain and suffering or incapacity, and you feel you have a claim that you want to bring to fruition, then find a solicitor, inform him of your gripe, regale him with your desires, and allow him to do judicial deed and appropriate your righteous compensation.

The legal administration defines two reasons for giving compensation to the sufferers of hand injuries. The first will be dependent upon a professional medical report that will detail your hurt in the most specific and scientific way. The second, more material, depends on the outlay the injury has demanded of you. Medical costs and the likelihood of loss of income are both accounted for here, hopefully elevating you to fiscal parity with a fictional you who still has their old hand intact.

Here follows an estimation of what you may receive if you succeed:

• thumb fracture - maximum of £2500 – quick recovery
• severance of little finger – maximum of £8000
• severance of ring finger – maximum of £9000
• severance of middle finger – maximum of £10000
• severance of index finger – maximum of £12000
• severance of thumb – maximum of £35000
• minor crush of hand - £2500 – recovery within a few months
• serious crush of hand -£8500 – surgery and small disability required.