Don’t Turn A Blind Eye To Injury

A few years ago an acquaintance was operating some machinery that cut off the tip of his thumb. It was painful and required an overnight stay in hospital but a major injury it wasn’t.

The job was a part time holiday job between school and university and advised by his employer he went to see some personal injury solicitors in Preston.

The solicitors obtained a report from the hospital and after getting all the details of the accident such as time and date along with a witness statement they assessed the claim would probably be settled quickly with the insurers.

It was only a casual aside along the lines of the injured musing over whether the injury would interfere with his guitar playing that the solicitor got the information out of his client that he was a semi-professional musician.

It was one of those stop and restart sort of moments. Instead of a couple of thousand pounds for the injury, if this interfered with his guitar playing the compensation could be much higher.

In the end a compromise settlement of around ten thousand pounds was made as the thumb in question had a minimal effect on his playing but enough to increase the amount from that original estimate.

The moral of the story is that in any personal injury claim every aspect of a person’s life and future has to be carefully scrutinised.

Often a person will be injured perhaps in a car accident through the wrongful actions of a third party. Injury claims solicitors are often harangued by their clients looking for quick cash without realising that the more serious the injury the longer it takes to settle with good reason.

The doctors will want to make comparison tests perhaps over some years to fully appreciate the extent that the injury will have on the injured party in their future life.
Some injuries will get much worse with old age and settling for a small amount in order to go off on a holiday jaunt can be dangerously short sighted.