What type of Injuries are eligible for compensation?
Hearing Loss, Tinnitus and Deafness - Armed Forces/Military
You can claim for any hearing loss sustained during military service. This includes any hearing loss sustained due to noise exposure while on operations, during training, participating in service approved sports or exercising to maintain military fitness.
You can make a claim if you've sustained any injury during the course of military service. Whether you're still serving, or a veteran. This applies to regular forces, reservists or members of the Special Forces.
Workplace Accidents
In the UK, according to the Health & Safety Executive figures for 2017/18, 1.4 million people are suffering from a work-related illness.
Accidents and injuries that occur in offices, warehouses, shop floors and factories, accidents often occur as a result of unsafe working conditions, due to lack of care or attention when it comes to workplace safety.
Workplace injury can be prevented if employers keep premises safe from all potential hazards. If they don’t and it causes an injury, you may have grounds to make an accident at work claim.
Medical Negligence
In 2017-2018, the NHS reported over 10,500 new claims of medical negligence. In the majority of cases, patients are treated effectively and will go on with their lives as normal. However, there are occasions when things go wrong. This is when a trained medical professional makes an avoidable mistake, resulting in harm caused to you, the patient.
Medical negligence also covers occasions when a medical professional or organisation fails in their duty of care to you, causing you injury or harm. This includes:
-failure to diagnose a condition misdiagnosis of a condition
-error during surgery or medical procedure administering the wrong drugs
-failing to warn you about the risks of a procedure or treatment
-infections acquired during a stay in hospital
You may be able to make a medical negligence claim if you’ve been left with injuries or you’ve suffered an existing condition worsening because of poor medical care from healthcare professionals.
Types of medical negligence
Misdiagnosis: When a healthcare provider fails to identify an illness or diagnoses a condition incorrectly
NHS negligence: This can come about if an NHS service or doctor performs at a substandard level.
Industrial Disease
Industrial disease is when you fall ill because of things you’ve had to do at work. This type of illness can develop when you haven’t been provided with the right equipment or allowed to follow the proper practices, or if you’ve been exposed to harmful substances or chemicals.
Some types of industrial disease can last a lifetime severely impact on your quality of life – that is where we can help.
Hearing loss and industrial difference.
Suffered personal injury while at work?
You could be eligible for compensation.
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