Claim for facial scarring from a motorbike accident

First published by Author on January 22, 2020 in the following categories: Accident Claims Compensation Injuries and tagged with compensation amounts | injury claims | motorbike claims | serious accident claims

If you need to make a personal injury claim for compensation for facial scarring from a motorbike accident, we can help.

We may be able to offer you no Win, No Fee representation, which can be important in a case like this. The potential pay-outs and amounts that victims could receive can be high when it comes to facial scarring injuries. This can especially be the case when the scarring is permanent and visibly noticeable.

We can briefly explore if we’re able to represent you and, if we can, what kind of compensation amount you could receive.

Can you claim for facial scarring from a motorbike accident?

You can be entitled to make a claim for compensation for facial scarring from a motorbike accident if the blame for the accident lies elsewhere.

If another road user is at fault, or where a bike defect is to blame, or even the local council due to the condition of the road, you may have a valid case. Common cases can involve other road users emerging from side roads; collisions head-on from dangerous overtaking; lane change incidents; and roundabout accidents.

The best way to know for sure if there’s a claim is to speak to our team for free, no-obligation advice today.

How much can you claim?

Compensation amounts and final pay-outs for facial scarring from a motorbike accident can vary. They can be substantial when the scarring is permanent and noticeable, as that’s one of the key things we assess when we look at how much a legal case is worth.

Generally speaking, the more you suffer, the more a claim can be valued at. For scarring injuries, this is generally based on the extent and severity of the scarring. We will normally instruct a medical expert to be able to assess the scarring and produce a report for us that we can then use to value the case.

It’s not an exact science. The general legal guidelines that we use says as follows:

• Trivial scarring: up to around £3,000.00;
• Small scars that can be camouflaged and don’t markedly affect the appearance: up to around £12,000.00;
• Scarring where the worst impact can be reduced with surgery, only leaving some cosmetic disability. Scarring may be visible at conversational distances: up to around £26,400.00;
• Where the disfigurement is more substantial: up to around £42,500.00;
• Severe scarring which may affect younger people and where the cosmetic impact is considerably disfiguring: up to around £85,300.00.

In the severe cases, the claim will likely be dealt with by our Serious Injury Claims Team.

We do also need to consider other factors like any impact on your career. If you were a model and the scarring has adversely affected your career, your claim could be largely made up of lost earnings from being unable to work in the same way as you had before. We can also consider other expenses, like private surgery costs if this can be more beneficial or more accessible than NHS equivalents. These are amounts that form as an additional part of the injury pay-out.

A note on helmets

The chances of sustaining facial scarring from a motorbike accident can be reduced by wearing an appropriate helmet, and it is the law to make use of safety equipment like this.

If you weren’t wearing a helmet, the other side can allege contributory negligence, whereby they can reduce the overall amount you receive.

You can still claim, but you could end up with a reduction on the final compensation amount as a percentage of up to 25% if a helmet could have lessened the scarring. It could be the case that scars are left from surgery instead which a helmet may not have prevented, and in this case, a contributory negligence argument may be invalid.

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