A Guide To Making An Ankle Injury Claim
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If you have experienced an ankle injury at work, on the roads or while out and about, our dedicated solicitors could help you seek compensation.
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A Guide To Making An Ankle Injury Claim
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A Guide To Making A No Win No Fee Ankle Injury Claim
It’s easy to overlook the importance of our ankles until the moment they get hurt. When the unfortunate does happen, we can quickly find how even the most mundane activities become burdensome. If your ankle was injured in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you may already be considering your options for compensation. Our guide to making an ankle injury claim will shed light on the process and explain how we could help.
Key Takeaways
- Injuries to the ankle can occur almost anywhere, including at work, in public places and on the roads.
- Ankle injuries can have a significant impact on stability and personal independence, and may lead to chronic pain.
- Not only could you claim compensation for your ankle injury, but also for the resulting impact on your finances.
- The financial cost of an ankle injury can include rehabilitation and specialist equipment.
- Our solicitors can offer their services on a strictly No Win No Fee basis with a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA).
To get a free eligibility assessment, legal advice, or answers to any questions, talk to our dedicated advisory team today via:
- Phone on 0333 091 8588.
- You can also contact us online by completing a callback form.
- We also operate a live chat service that you can access in the bottom corner of your screen.
Can I Make An Ankle Injury Claim?
Yes, you certainly can make an ankle injury claim, but you’ll first need to be sure that your case meets certain conditions. We’ll cover the specific requirements for accidents at work, in public, and on the roads further down this guide, but the general criteria for personal injury claims are:
- You were owed a duty of care by a third party.
- That third party breached this duty in some way.
- This breach resulted in an accident, in which you suffered an injury to your ankle.
A duty of care is the responsibility that a third party, like an employer, has to others. Various pieces of legislation govern this duty, which we’ll outline shortly in this guide.
Can I Claim For A Loved One’s Ankle Injury?
If the above criteria are met, then you can claim for a loved one’s ankle injury if they are unable to pursue compensation for themselves. This would require you to become their litigation friend.
As a litigation friend, you would have decision-making powers over the claim and would direct the proceedings on their behalf. Litigation friends are used in situations where a claimant is a child or an adult who is mentally incapacitated, as neither can seek ankle injury compensation on their own.
How Does A No Win No Fee Agreement Work?
No Win No Fee agreements work by ensuring claimants do not face the prospect of paying mounting solicitor fees. Our legal representatives specifically use a contract referred to as a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). In short, this contract ensures that claimants don’t pay solicitor fees both at the start of and during the claim. There will also be no solicitor’s fee if the claim fails.
You’ll only be charged a success fee if you win. This is taken as a percentage of your compensation and is payment for the solicitor’s work. Since The Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2013 caps this percentage at 25%, most of the compensation is yours to keep.
Are There Any Hidden Costs?
There are no hidden costs to claiming, thanks to the Conditional Fee Agreement offered by our solicitors. Moreover, they will clearly outline the success fee percentage they will take, how your injuries have been valued, and if any other expenses will arise during the claims process.
Claimants can be protected from these other costs, such as the cost of medical reports, accident scene photography or expert fees, through After The Event (ATE) insurance. ATE policies are taken out by the solicitor after the incident but before any disbursements have been accrued.
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What Accidents Could Cause An Ankle Injury To Happen?
Various accidents could cause an ankle injury to happen at work, while in public, or on the roads. In the sections below, we examine each of these instances, including relevant laws and an illustrative example.
Accidents At Work
Your employer is required to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of their workforce, as well as their health and well-being. This duty of care is per the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
An example of a situation where an accident at work claim could be made would be:
- As a builder on a construction site, you should have been provided with proper protective boots. Your employer did not supply these, despite there being a stated requirement for this personal protective equipment. While moving paving slabs, a heavy piece fell out of the box and hit your foot, breaking your ankle and several toes.
Public Place Accidents
Any party in control of a public space is referred to as an “occupier.” The Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 requires these parties to take practical steps to ensure the reasonable safety of all visitors to the area under their control.
A valid compensation claim could occur in a situation like the following:
- You were heading out of a hotel when you tripped on a broken step. The step had been reported, but no action was taken to repair the hazard, nor was any warning placed. You badly twisted your ankle in the resulting fall, sustaining significant soft tissue damage.
Road Traffic Accidents
All road users must uphold the standards of the Highway Code and Road Traffic Act 1988. They also need to do everything they can to avoid causing harm to each other and themselves.
You could make a road traffic accident claim if:
- You were cycling along a residential road when a driver reversed out of their driveway at speed without taking appropriate precautions. The resulting collision caused you to suffer a heavy fall, breaking your ankle and suffering injuries to your arm and head.
Hopefully, these examples have given you an idea of when you could be able to claim. You can find out about seeking compensation in your particular circumstances by calling our advisors today.
The Most Common Types Of Ankle Injuries
Here we have provided a list of the most common types of ankle injury. Your specific injury might not be listed here, but that does not mean you are ineligible to claim.
Injuries to the ankle can include:
- Pain, swelling and bruising: Minor injuries to the ankle can include bruises and swelling. If there are no visible signs, it could still cause significant pain. These types of injuries are often not serious, but it’s still a good idea to get them checked by a medical professional.
- Lacerations, grazes and puncture wounds: These injuries involve the breaking of the skin. Lacerations (cuts) and grazes (scrapes) can be treated quite easily, but puncture wounds, usually caused by a sharp object, can be a bit more complex as they are deeper and need to be cleaned carefully to avoid infection.
- Soft tissue injuries: Your ankle contains a lot of soft tissues, including nerves, tendons and ligaments. A sprain is a torn or twisted ligament, whereas a strain is muscle damage.
- Broken bones: The most serious ankle injuries typically involve bone fractures. Fractures can vary in severity from a single clean break to multiple complex breaks, frequently seen in crush injuries.
Each of these injury types can potentially be serious; swelling, for example, could be a sign of a broken bone. This is why it is important to take extra care after an ankle injury and get proper medical help.
To get a free eligibility check and a better idea of whether you have grounds to claim, speak to our advisors today using the information provided below.
How Long Do I Have To Claim For An Injured Ankle?
Generally, you will have 3 years from the date of the accident to start your claim for an injured ankle, unless, of course, the exceptions we discussed earlier apply. In these circumstances, the time limits are extended so a suitable litigation friend can be found. They can then help a child or a mentally incapacitated adult claim during this time limit pause.
Otherwise, the 3-year limitation period will only apply from:
- The date of a child’s 18th birthday.
- The date that an adult regains their mental capacity. If that doesn’t happen, then time limits will stay frozen.
The time limit was set down in the Limitation Act 1980 and applies to all types of personal injury claims. You can learn more about how long you might have to make an ankle injury claim by speaking to an advisor today.
What Compensation Can I Get For An Ankle Injury?
The compensation you can get for an ankle injury can depend on general and special damages. Your ankle injury, as well as any psychological effects, are covered under general damages. Special damages are concerned with the injury’s financial impacts, and we’ll examine this in the next section.
Solicitors can determine a potential general damages amount by looking at your medical evidence alongside the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG). This publication contains suggestive compensation brackets for various injuries, ranging from minor soft tissue damage up to the most serious brain trauma.
Our compensation calculator is a handy tool that uses the JCG to give you a quick look at the document’s various suggested brackets for different injuries. Please be advised that this information is intended as guidance only.
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What Else Can Injured Ankle Compensation Cover?
Ankle Injury compensation can also cover, as we said above, special damages for your financial losses. This head of claim accounts for both past and future losses, and aims to value the impact of your injuries on your day-to-day life. We have given a few examples here:
- Loss of earnings due to time taken off from work to recover from your injuries.
- A loss of future earnings if you are unable to return to work at all, or need to take reduced hours.
- The cost of any physiotherapy, private treatment, prescriptions, counselling or other out-of-pocket medical costs.
- Domestic care and support, such as with meal prep, cleaning, maintenance and caring for any dependents, if you can no longer do these tasks safely on your own.
- Accessibility installations, including handrails and modified baths.
Make sure you hold onto any evidence of these losses, including payslips, travel tickets, purchase receipts and care bills. They’ll be needed in order to claim for your financial losses under special damages.
This section aims to provide guidance on how an ankle injury claim may be valued. To learn more about making a claim in your specific circumstances and get a more personalised discussion of compensation, talk to our team today.
How Can I Prove My Ankle Injury Was Due To Negligence?
To prove your ankle injury was due to negligence, you will need to collect supporting evidence. Not only can it establish how another party was liable for your ankle injury, but it can also show the extent of damage you suffered.
We have compiled a list of possible evidence you could collect here:
- After an accident, you should always seek the proper medical care. This is important to get your injuries properly treated, but you can request copies of any medical documents, such as an X-ray, to highlight the extent of your injuries.
- Workplace training documents could demonstrate that relevant health and safety, vehicle or manual handling training was either not carried out or carried out incorrectly.
- Employers with 10 or more employees are required by law to keep a workplace accident book. You can acquire a copy of your particular incident report.
- If your workplace has CCTV cameras, it is your legal right to request a copy of the footage. This can be very useful in showing the accident occurring.
- You can also take photographs of your injuries, the immediate scene of your accident, and what caused it.
- If your ankle injury occurred in a road traffic accident, you’ll need the contact details for the other involved party. That information should also include their vehicle registration and insurance, if applicable.
You could get assistance with collecting evidence from one of our dedicated personal injury solicitors. Call our advisors for a free assessment of your eligibility to claim and find out how one of our expert solicitors can support you.
Can I Make An Ankle Injury Claim With A No Win No Fee Solicitor?
You could make an ankle injury claim with a No Win No Fee solicitor if you meet the eligibility requirements outlined earlier in this guide. Our solicitors have years of experience in handling personal injury claims and will ensure that throughout the process, your particular needs are accommodated.
Here are just a few of the services they can provide:
- Helping you to gather supporting evidence.
- Determining a potential compensation figure, including any financial losses.
- Helping you to understand what is happening wth your claim and explaining any technical terms.
- Communicating with the defendant’s representatives on your behalf.
- Negotiating a final compensation amount.
Contact Our Solicitors
- Phone on 0333 091 8588.
- You can also contact us online by completing a callback form.
- We also operate a live chat service that you can access in the bottom corner of your screen.
More Information
You can read some of our other personal injury claims guides here:
- See how long after an injury you can claim compensation with this guide.
- Check the eligibility requirements in manual handling injury claims and learn how our solicitors could help you.
- Find out more about electric shock claims here.
We have also provided these resources from external websites that you may find useful:
- Use this NHS resource to learn more about musculoskeletal health conditions and support tools.
- Find out more about how to request CCTV footage of yourself on the government website.
- Read the guidance on managing risks and risk assessment at work from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Thank you for taking a moment to read this guide about making an ankle injury claim.