Hand injury compensation amounts in biker claims

For bikers, hand injury compensation amounts can be substantial, and it’s a part of the body that’s easily injured when a rider is involved in an accident.

With this in mind, we thought it would be a good idea to give you a little insight into how we value hand injury compensation claims.

When you make a motorbike accident compensation claim, you can claim for General Damages and for Special Damages. General Damages is for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity caused, and that’s where we can give you an idea about amount. Special Damages is for losses and expenses, and that part of the case can easily be valued at more than the injury side of things.

How we value hand injury compensation amounts

We typically value hand injury compensation amounts using expert medical evidence and any evidence of losses and expenses incurred. Generally speaking, the more you suffer and the more you lose financially, the more a claim is generally worth.

We also use official guidelines together with the expert evidence and our own experience to make sure we get the best amount we can for you.

Impact on employment

One of the major things that hand injury compensation amounts account for is the impact on your employment and future career prospects.

This is the part of the case is known as Special Dames and can actually amount to a sum that could be way higher than the amount you receive for your General Damages. Most people need their hands to work. I wrote this article on a keyboard that required the use of my hands!

If you cannot use your hands for a long time, you may incur lost earnings form time off work, and we can try and recover this back for you as pat of a case. Where there’s permanent damage, we may need to account for lost earnings for the rest of your life. If you can work, we may need to look at your loss of opportunity on the open labour market.

This part of the case can be substantial in serious injury compensation claims.

Average hand injury compensation amounts

What we may class as minor hand injury compensation amounts, according to the official guidelines we use, can be roughly as follows:

• Recovery within six months: up to £3,800.00;
• Crush injuries, penetrating wounds and deep lacerations with some lasting impairment: up to £11,600.00;
• Severe crush injury leading to significant impairment: up to £25,500.00;

More serious cases are, of course, higher, and the rough guidance for those injuries is as follows:

• Impairment reducing hand to around 50% capacity, and may include multiple finger amputations and re-joining, with severe visible and muscular limitations: up to £54,000.00;
• Impairment leaving the hand with very little use with incredibly weak grip strength: up to £80,000.00;
• Impairment of both hands with very little use: up to £176,000.00.