Child Injuries accident and compensation advice

Child accident and injury compensation claim example:

A child accident and injury compensation claim was made when a door had slammed on a 13 year old girl when passing through the corridor to go to her classroom. A compensation claim by accident solicitors who acted on behalf of the injured child obtained £4,000 for fracture and crush injury to her fingers.

A child accident and injury compensation claim was made when a 13 year old girl who trapped her fingers in a door that had slammed shut due to a defective closure on the door as she was walking through a corridor to go back to her lesson. The injured girl suffered from a fracture her index finger and crushing injury to her middle and ring finger.

The injured child went to accident and emergency with her parents to see if there was any permanent damage done to her fingers. The x-ray results showed that the injured child had fractured her index finger and sustained a crushing injury to her middle and ring fingers.

The accident hospital consultant advised the injured child’s parents that she would require a splint for her index finger but the crush injury for the injuries to heal over time. The child was absent from school for 4 days missing out on revision.

The Local Authority responsible for the school admitted liability in respect of the child accident injury due to the faulty door closure.

The child accident and injury solicitors acted on a NO WIN NO FEE agreement and recovered all legal costs off the insurance company. The infant child received 100% compensation and 0% legal costs which was approved by the Court. 

Note that that mother who instructed the child compensation injury solicitors is known as a litigation friend. The compensation payment to the infant child was approved by the Court and the compensation to be invested on behalf of the infant child until the child reaches the age of 18 years.  At that age the child then in law reaches majority and is able to obtain the compensation from the court with interest that has accumulated since the money was in court.