Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator

Multiple injuries compensation calculator guide

By Stephen Taylor. Last Updated 19th may 2022. In this guide, we’ll talk about how to use our multiple injury compensation calculator. If you’ve suffered multiple injuries because of an accident caused by another party’s negligence, then you may be able to claim for this pain and suffering.

Please read on to learn more about what you might need to consider in order to make a valid multiple injury claim. We will also look in-depth at what injuries and other damages you may be able to claim for and how a compensation calculator may potentially help.

How To Calculate Compensation For Multiple Injuries

This guide will cover a number of different factors relating to personal injury claims. For instance, we will look at the kinds of injuries you could sustain and how they could impact you. We will go on to look at how the severity of your injury could impact the amount of compensation you receive.

Furthermore, we will look at how each head of your claim could be calculated. We’ll also look at the evidence you need to provide to support your claim for compensation.

Our advisors offer 24/7 free legal advice. You can contact them at a time that is suitable for you. Call them on 0800 408 7826 to learn more about how you can use our compensation payout calculator. Or for more information on multiple injury claims, please read on.

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A Guide To Using A Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator
What Is A Multiple Injury Claim?
What Things Could You Claim For After Suffering Multiple Injuries?
Types Of Accident Causing Multiple Injuries
Workplace Injury Statistics
Claiming Care Costs After Suffering Multiple Injuries
How To Use A Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator
How Much Could I Expect To Claim For Multiple Injuries?
Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator
No Win No Fee Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator
Get Free Legal Advice
Ask Our Team To Calculate A Multiple Injury Claim
Related Guides And Case Studies
FAQs About Multiple Injury Claims

A Guide To Using A Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator

Many incidents could be serious enough to cause multiple injuries. You could suffer internal injuries as well as head and brain injuries as the result of medical negligence. Alternatively, a fall from a height could cause a broken pelvis as well as a fractured ankle.

Our personal injury calculator can help you determine how much compensation could be owed to you for your injuries. All you need to do is input information about the injuries you have sustained as well as any loss of earnings you would like to claim back.

Once you’ve done this, we can give you an accurate estimate of what you could receive. You could also speak to an advisor in order for them to value your claim. Once this is done, and your claim is deemed to have a good chance of success, we could then connect you with a solicitor from our panel to represent you on a No Win No Fee basis.

What Is A Multiple Injury Claim?

Our multiple injury compensation calculator can inform you of how much compensation you could receive for each injury you have sustained. For example, as a result of a serious accident, you could have spinal injuries (such as paralysis) and head injuries (which could lead to serious brain damage).

Because the injuries were caused when someone who owed you a duty of care breached this duty, you’d be able to claim for the two separate injuries. This would be a multiple injury claim.

The injuries you sustain don’t all have to be physical. Psychological injuries can be just as impactful as physical ones. If you were physically and psychologically harmed in an incident that was not your fault, you could receive compensation for the effect of both of these injuries.

What Things Could You Claim For After Suffering Multiple Injuries?

When making a personal injury claim, there are two potential heads of claim that you could be awarded. These are called general and special damages.

First, general damages relate to the physical pain, psychological impact and decline in your quality of life caused by the injury. For example, any pain relating to whiplash, sprains and fractures caused by a road traffic accident would be covered under general damages.

The second potential head of claim is special damages. This relates to the financial losses caused by the injury itself. Therefore, it means you could claim for things like:

Loss of earnings
Travel costs
Medicine and prescriptions
Adaptations to your property
The cost of care

Please call us now using the phone number at the top of this page if you’d like to know more about what kinds of damages could be included in your claim. Our advisors can offer you free legal advice about making a claim.

Types Of Accident Causing Multiple Injuries

When you make a compensation claim, you could receive compensation for multiple injuries that were caused by third-party negligence. More specifically, it would need to be the negligence of someone who had a duty of care towards you.

Below, we have included some examples of situations where you’re owed a duty of care and how an accident might occur. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to speak to our team.

Workplace Accidents Causing Multiple Injuries

Your employer has a duty of care towards you. This means that they need to provide you with a safe workplace.

This duty of care is outlined in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. If they don’t take all reasonably practicable steps to keep you safe in the workplace, you could be involved in an accident that causes you injury.

Examples of incidents that could lead you to use a multiple injury compensation calculator include:

You’re transporting a corrosive substance, but it hasn’t been stored properly. As a result, it spills, and you experience burn injuries and injuries to your eyes.
Faulty machinery causes an object to fall on you. This causes a head injury and a fractured shoulder.
You slip and fall because you were not given the right anti-slip boots. This causes a broken nose and a broken wrist.

Multiple Injuries Sustained In Road Traffic Accidents

All road users are expected to adhere to the standard of skill and care of the average motorist. The duty of care that road users owe to one another is outlined in the Highway Code.

Road traffic accidents can cause a number of different injuries. Examples of injuries that could be caused by negligence on the road include:

Spinal injuries are caused when another driver goes through a red light and hits your car.
Internal injuries, including head and brain injuries, due to a multi-car pile-up that was caused when a lorry failed to keep a safe stopping distance from the car in front.
Whiplash, sprains and fractures that you sustain when another car pulls out from a side road without looking, hitting the side of your car.

Medical Negligence Causing Multiple Injuries

When we seek medical attention, we trust that the medical professionals will make sure they deliver the right standard of care. However, this isn’t always the case, and sometimes the care they deliver can cause injury or a worsening of your condition. This is medical negligence.

It’s important to note that just because you’re harmed as a result of medical care doesn’t mean that you’re the victim of negligence. For example, if you present to A&E with an arm that is badly broken and crushed, then this may need to be amputated. Although the surgeon doing the procedure is technically causing you harm by amputating your limb, doing so is within their duty of care.

Examples of injuries caused by medical negligence could include:

Damage to internal organs happens when the surgeon’s hand slips while holding a scalpel.
You have arthritis, but this isn’t diagnosed when it should have been. This means that your condition gets worse as a result.
You sustain neurological injuries as a result of being given the wrong medicine or prescription.

Multiple Injuries Caused By Slips, Trips And Falls

If you suffer injuries from an accident in a public place, you may be able to claim. You can do so if the occupier of the space (the person in control of it) has breached their duty of care, resulting in the accident that caused your injuries.

They have a duty to make sure the space is safe for the intended use. Failure to do so is an example of negligence. Their responsibilities are outlined in the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957. If you were injured because the occupier of a public space failed to keep it safe, you could look into making a claim against them.

Examples of this include:

You sustain a broken ankle and sacral fracture when you fall down an uncovered manhole.
A shelving unit is not secured to the wall and falls on you as a result. This causes a fractured sternum in addition to a broken collarbone.
You slip and fall on some broken glass that was not cleaned up. This leads to a scar injury and a broken eye socket.

Multiple Injuries Caused By Assaults And Criminal Injuries

If you’ve been the victim of a criminal attack and you’ve experienced an injury as a result, you may assume that you’re not entitled to claim. However, this is not the case.

If the person who harmed you has been identified and has the money to pay you, then you can launch a claim against them. But if they have not been identified or don’t have the money to pay you, you can make a claim through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA).

The CICA have their own tariff of compensation amounts for criminal injuries. For more information on how to claim compensation through the CICA, get in touch with our team today, as the eligibility criteria and time limits differ from normal personal injury claims.

Examples of incidents that can cause these injuries include:

Broken bones and internal injuries caused by sexual assault
Head injuries and scarring caused by a discriminatory attack
Spinal injuries and bruising sustained in a home invasion.

Workplace Injury Statistics

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) collects statistics related to workplace injuries in Britain. As you can see, we have included a graph above, showing the most common kinds of accidents that resulted in injury in 2019/20.

Slips, trips and falls on the same level resulted in 29% of the injuries caused for that year. A slip or fall could result in multiple injuries; for instance, you may attempt to break your fall with your hand, fracturing your wrist. However, you could also experience a head injury because you hit your head on the floor as you fell.

If you would like to see if you can make a claim or if you have any questions or queries, please call our experienced advisors for free legal advice now using the phone number at the top of this page.

Claiming Care Costs After Suffering Multiple Injuries

Financial losses caused by the injury can also include claim costs. You might be able to claim for these costs if you have sufficient evidence to show the losses you’ve suffered.

If you’re successful, this could greatly increase the amount of compensation you could receive. Examples of care costs you might be able to claim include:

Adjustments to your home, such as a chair lift.
Amendments to your vehicle like making it wheelchair accessible.
The cost of having a nurse look after you

How To Use A Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator

Alongside using a compensation payout calculator, another way of getting an understanding on the potential compensation you may receive is to look at compensation brackets provided by the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG). You can view examples of some of these compensation brackets for different injuries in the table below.

The figures are based on the 16^th edition of the JCG, published in April 2022. They are often used alongside medical evidence to help legal professionals value your multiple injury claim accurately.

If you still have any questions about using a multiple injury compensation calculator, then you’re welcome to contact our advisors here at Compensation Calculator UK for support. You can reach us using the contact details included within this guide.

This is because the Judicial College provides compensation brackets for a wide range of different injuries. By using past cases where the courts have provided compensation, they have created specific compensation brackets for any injury you may have suffered. This means you’ll be given a clear indication of what compensation you could receive for every injury you suffer from.

If you have any questions or queries or want free legal advice, call our advisors now using the phone number at the top of the page.

How Much Could I Expect To Claim For Multiple Injuries?

As we have established, the Judicial College provides compensation brackets for every single type of injury. As part of your claim, you will usually be invited to a medical assessment. This is where a doctor examines your injuries and how severe they are. They’ll then put their findings together in a report, which will be used to value your claim.

Claiming special damages is dependant on showing that your injuries caused you financial losses. Therefore, you’ll need to provide evidence of the losses you have incurred. For example, you could provide:

Receipts
Invoices
Bills
Payslips

Evidence for each head of your claim will be determined based on its own evidence. However, if you don’t win your claim for general damages, you won’t receive any special damages compensation.

For more information on how your compensation is calculated, speak to a member of our team today. Our team are waiting to take your call and can offer you free legal advice.

Our compensation payout calculator can provide you with an accurate estimate by using compensation brackets compiled by the Judicial College. We’ve also used these figures to compile the table below.

Injury	Severity	Compensation Bracket	Details
Arms	Loss	£240,790 to £300,000	Loss of both arms.
Kidney	(a)	£169,400 to £210,400	Where both kidneys have been lost or permanently damaged.
Kidney	(c)	£30,770 to £44,880	Loss of one kidney where the other is not damaged.
Bladder	Loss (b)	Up to £140,660	Complete loss of function and control.
Pelvis and Hips	Severe (i)	£78,400 to £130,930	These kinds of pelvic fractures might result in a ruptured bladder or dislocation of the lower back.
Eye	Total Loss of One Eye	£54,830 to £65,710	Where one eye is completely lost.
Shoulder	Severe	£19,200 to £48,030	Injuries in this bracket will result in significant disability.
Elbow	Moderate or Minor	Up to £12,590	This bracket will include injuries that don't cause permanent damage or a permanent impairment of function.

Please remember that these compensation brackets are guidelines. They’re not guaranteed figures and will be dependant on the circumstances of your claim.

This answers the question of “How is personal injury compensation calculated?” If you’d like a more accurate estimate, we completely understand and would love to help! However, we can only help with this if you give us more information about your injury. So, please call us using the phone number at the top of this page.

No Win No Fee Multiple Injury Compensation Calculator

Our panel of solicitors work on a No Win No Fee basis. It may be that you have heard this phrase used before but aren’t completely sure what it means.

A No Win No Fee agreement is a contract between you and your solicitor. It sets out the conditions that your lawyer needs to meet before asking you to pay them.

With this kind of agreement, you won’t be asked to pay anything upfront or while your claim is being worked on. You also won’t be asked to pay anything in the event that your claim is unsuccessful.

The only time you will be asked to pay a No Win No Fee solicitor is in the event that your claim is successful. If this happens, a legally capped success fee will be deducted from your compensation.

If you’d like to know more about these kinds of agreements, or to be connected with a No Win No Fee lawyer from our panel, give our team a call today. You can get in touch using the phone number to the top and bottom of this page.

Get Free Legal Advice

Our multiple injury compensation calculator can assess how much compensation you could receive based on a few simple pieces of information. Our advisors are available 24/7 so, if you’d like free legal advice, you can call them at a time that works for you.

In addition to this, we could connect with a knowledgeable No Win No Fee solicitor from our panel who could help you claim compensation.

If you would like to get in touch, then simply:

Call us now using 0800 408 7826
Write to us using the Live Chat window on the right-hand side of your screen.
Contact us via our website.

Ask Our Team To Calculate A Multiple Injury Claim

You may prefer to speak to someone directly instead of using a personal injury claims calculator. On the other hand, you may be having difficulty using this calculator and would like some guidance on doing so.

Whatever you would like guidance on, simply get in touch with our team today. One of our advisors will be happy to offer you free legal advice. In addition to this, they could connect you with a solicitor from our panel if your claim has a good chance of success.

Related Guides And Case Studies

For more useful information, please use the links below.

NHS- How do I know if I have broken a bone?
The Department for Transport statistics.
Violence at work HSE statistics
Making a broken leg injury claim
Claiming for a broken leg caused by negligence
Broken rib compensation claims.

Other Personal Injury Claims Guides You Can Read

FAQs About Multiple Injury Claims

Answers to frequently asked questions regarding claiming for multiple injuries can be found below.

How are multiple injury claims calculated?

As part of the claims process, you will usually be invited to a medical assessment. In this assessment, all of your injuries will be examined. The resulting report can be used to help value your claim.

How is the pain and suffering multiplier calculated?

In personal injury claims, each injury is generally assessed independently of the others. There is no multiplier – the individual compensation amounts are simply added up. However, if you claim through the CICA, this can differ. Speak to our team today for more information.

How much compensation do you get for soft tissue injury?

This is a difficult question to answer. This is because soft tissue injuries can vary in severity, so the amount of compensation you could receive is not set.

Can I get an interim payment?

Yes, you can. If liability has been agreed upon, but there are other factors that are drawing the process out, you could apply for an interim payment. This will release the funds that you need right away. You will need to tell the court why you’re applying for the interim payment.

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