Child Injury – £8500 – Fracture To Leg
23/12/2009Child accident claim, injury compensation claim example:
A child accident claim for injury compensation and loss due to a cellar door being left open. A child injury compensation claim by accident solicitors obtained £8,500 for the injures sustained, major injury fracture to child’s leg.
A child accident claim was made when a 10 year old boy fell over a pub cellar door which was left open. The Pub admitted blame. The young child was playing football outside the pub, when he ran and fell over the pub cellar door. He fell heavily to the ground. The injured child suffered from a fracture to his leg as it hit the metal casing of the door.A member of staff in the pub rang an ambulance to take him straight to hospital with his parents.
The injured child had his leg x-rayed which showed a simple facture. His leg was placed in a plaster of paris up to the knee which was removed after 1 month. He had to use crutches for 3 weeks thereafter and made a full and complete recovery within 9 months from the date of the accident.
The child accident claim solicitors obtained compensation for £8,500 for the child injury. The child’s mother (known as the litigation friend) also received compensation for expenses and loss of earnings.
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 accident claim solicitors is known as a litigation friend. For further details see http://childinjuries.co.uk/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.
