okay in this video I want to take a look at a question that comes up regularly
enough I know it's a fairly frequent question and that is what is the average
settlement amount in a personal injury claim so if that's of any interest to
you then stay tuned if you've suffered a personal injury
and you're getting compensation then this video is just going to address how
the amount of compensation is calculator's basically the injuries
board will make an assessment in the first instance and it would put a value
on your personal injury and your losses now there are two aspects to the
compensation one is general damages and the other aspects of special damages
special damages is out-of-pocket expenses so lots of wages hospital bills
perhaps physiotherapy maybe a taxi from the scene of an accident all out of
prescription pills etc all of these out-of-pocket expenses are special
damages derivatively easy and straightforward to calculate because
you're just going to produce receipts and vouchers and so on and it's going to
be compensated for those the other aspect of compensation in a personal
injuries claim is for general damages general damages is for loss our pain and
suffering essentially so loss of a Mina C put basically pain and suffering so
you break an arm rhea break a leg clearly there's a certain element of or
indeed equipped light injury or whatever there's a certain element of pain and
suffering in flowers and obviously the amount that you're going to be awarded
by way of general damages by the injuries board or indeed by a court is
going to be depending on the actual injury and how bad it is now there is a
starting point for assessing the value or quantity that you
going to be awarded in aspect of an injury and that starting point is the
book of quantum so if you go to this website here the injuries board website
that I'm on now to see injuries board diary up there on the left hand side and
you go down here then to forms and guidelines and if you scroll down here
you'll see book of quantum the book of quantum as a guide for the level of
compensation so I'm going to slightly receive depending on the nature and
extent of their injuries so you can have a look down at the book of quantum
online and it will give you a very very good idea of what the injuries board is
going to give you and ultimately what a court might give you if you're forced to
go to court now the whole area of personal injuries how the injuries board
works making a personal injuries claim etc etc all of these aspects all of
these topics are covered in other videos that I've drawn on Twitter on my youtube
channel and which are on my website business and legal the high E this
specific video is just concerned with how the assessment is arrived at for
general damages for pain and suffering so as you can see the starting point
will be the book of quantum as you scroll down and have a look click and
have a close look at this you can see is divided into a number of sections
essentially I think there's maybe six or seven sections so if you take head
injuries for example you're going to see the different range of would have a look
at that now you see the whole book is divided up into six sections and it
deals with various parts of your body so ankle for stores etc in the lower limb
injury section so if we go along just maybe to the first section to give you
an idea how to use the book of quantum obviously you want to read that and see
exactly how to use what because essentially it's going to look at six
different categories and it's telling you to identify the category of injury
understand the severity of the injury using the medical report look up the
value range and then consider the effect of multiple injuries so that's the four
steps that you would be taking or that the English Board will take in assessing
an injury so you can see a sample assessment there this general damages
for pain and suffering 7,200 here's the special damages that I mentioned to you
minutes ago medication physiotherapy doctor sees it set around the total
settlement and the total assessment from the English board would be eight grand
now if we wanted specific sections if we look at for example head injuries I
would just take a look as so head and skull injury and we're looking at a
minor one where there's no loss of consciousness up to twenty one thousand
eight hundred is the value a moderate one where is loss of consciousness
consciousness for less than 24 hours you're looking at between nineteen
thousand and thirty five thousand two hundred and a severe head injury loss of
consciousness for more than 24 hours you're looking at a range of a
compensation between forty one thousand six hundred and seventy four thousand
and again it goes through the various injuries region and sustained in
relation to your head and you know you looking at as I say different bands and
different ranges so you have a minor skull fracture model or severe and
permanent condition rising from a skull fracture fracture you'll see that it can
range from thirty four thousand seven hundred sixty six thousand for a minor
skull fracture from seventy three thousand two hundred twenty four
thousand for severe and primary condition arising from a skull fracture
the exact same principle applies through all of these assessments so injuries
affecting hearing and so on and so forth facial injuries so again your minor
model and severe and permanent and the range is then will be set out here this
will give you a good idea thought you might be entitled to in and injuries
claim it could be forged lash it could be for a broken leg a broken arm you
know broken finger or whatever it made a sustained it work it could be a back
injury and essentially you get Grady of the amount is going to be assessed us by
the injuries board now you don't have to accept it and the other party doesn't
have to accept the amount either if that's the case and you don't accept it
we're going to go off to court and you bring your case here by way of a
personal injuries summons so that's essentially how the injury is assessed
in terms of general damages it depends on the degree of the injury how bad or
how severe it is it'll depend on the prognosis for recovery how quickly you
might recover and it also will then take into account multiple injuries so you
might also in addition to experiencing a whiplash you might also have so for the
back injury and perhaps an arm injury you can simply work your way through
this book and it will give you a good idea hope you find this useful so if you
want to learn more about pressure injuries in Ireland personal injury
claims how they are dealt with how the prosecutors in court where necessary et
cetera go to my website business and legal that I II and this is the website
here scroll right down to the bottom of the page and you'll see a section down
here where as a little personal injury things click there and you're going to
see a huge amount of information on the website about personal injuries the
statute of limitations in other words the time within which you must bring a
claim and so on and so forth so that's my website category and company
solicitors but the URL is business and legal dahye II hope you find this video
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