Welcome to our guide on hip injury claims. If you have injured your hip in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you may have a lot of questions, such as “What is the average compensation for a hip injury in the UK?” and “How long do I have to make a claim?”. In this guide, we answer these questions and more.
We cover the types of accidents that can lead to successful personal injury claims and also how compensation is calculated.
To conclude this guide, you will find out about No Win No Fee agreements and what our panel of solicitors do to make the claims process easier for their clients.
Injuries to your hips and pelvis can be extremely painful and can affect your daily life. By speaking with us, our advisors will be able to confirm whether you’re eligible to claim hip injury compensation for your suffering. Our advisors are available for a chat 24/7:
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- Average Hip Injury Compensation Amounts
- Am I Eligible To Claim For Hip Injury Compensation?
- Common Causes Of Hip Injuries That Lead To Claims
- Types Of Hip Injuries You Can Claim For
- How To Make A Hip Injury Claim
- Why Trust Our Panel Of Solicitors With Your Claim?
- More Information
Average Hip Injury Compensation Amounts
If you’ve suffered a hip injury, you are most likely wondering what the average compensation for a hip injury in the UK is. Knowing the average compensation in reality would not help you much. No two claims are alike, so the value of all hip injury claims depends on the accident’s circumstances and the impacts of the injuries. However, we can tell you how hip injury compensation is calculated instead.
If you have a successful claim, your hip injury compensation may be divided into two heads of claim – general and special damages.
Under general damages, you are compensated for your hip injury’s physical and psychological impacts. This head of claim is always awarded.
Under this head of claim, these factors are just a few that are looked at:
- Loss of amenity.
- How bad the pain is.
- How long the recovery period is.
You could be asked to go for an independent medical assessment during the claims process. A legal professional can use the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG), plus the reports from this assessment, to help them value the worth of your general damages.
The JCG publishes guideline compensation figures for different physical and psychological injuries.
Guideline Compensation Table
We have created a guideline compensation table with some figures taken from the JCG for different types of hip and pelvis injuries.
Please note that the top figure hasn’t come from the JCG. Also, none of these figures can be guaranteed and are not representative of what the average compensation for a hip injury in the UK is.
Injury type | Severity | Guideline compensation figures | Notes |
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Multiple serious injuries with special damages | Serious | Up to £500,000+ | Your award will compensate you for suffering more than one serious injury plus special damages such as domestic care costs and loss of earnings. |
Pelvis and hips | Severe (a)(i) | £95,680 to £159,770 | Extensive pelvis fractures or a hip injury that results in spondylolisthesis of a lower back joint, necessitating spinal fusion and causing intolerable pain. |
Severe (a)(ii) | £75,550 to £95,680 | Injuries that are only a little less serious than above. | |
Severe (a)(iii) | £47,810 to £64,070 | Multiple injuries fall in this bracket, one being a hip fracture where a hip replacement surgery is needed, but the surgery isn't fully successful. | |
Moderate (b)(i) | £32,450 to £47.810 | A significant injury that has no great or major permanent disability or future risk. | |
Moderate (b)(ii) | £15,370 to £32,450 | Injuries where a hip replacement surgery is needed. | |
Lesser injuries (c)(i) | £4,820 to £15,370 | A significant injury that has no (or little) residual disability. | |
Lesser injuries (c)(ii) | Up to £4,820 | Minor soft tissue injuries where a complete recovery is made. |
How Special Damages Work With Your Claim
Under special damages, you are compensated for the financial impacts of your hip injury. This head of claim is only sometimes awarded.
Here are a few examples of the types of financial losses you could possibly incur from a hip injury:
- Loss of earnings if you require time off work to recover.
- Medical expenses, such as prescription costs.
- Domestic and/or professional care costs.
Since this head of claim is not always awarded, you must have evidence of any financial losses you have suffered. As such, please keep any and all invoices, payslips, receipts, and bank statements.
To learn more about how successful hip injury claims are calculated, please contact us today.
How To Use Our Compensation Calculator
You can view our online compensation calculator here. Simply fill in the details of your injury using the prompts to get a free estimated compensation figure in seconds.
However, this compensation calculator is not entirely accurate, as it doesn’t take into consideration all of your special damages, such as future loss of earnings. For this reason, it would probably be best for you to contact our team today. By speaking with an advisor, you can get a more accurate estimation of your specific potential hip injury compensation value.
Am I Eligible To Claim For Hip Injury Compensation?
You may be eligible to claim hip injury compensation if you can prove that you have suffered negligence. Negligence is when you sustain an injury because there was a breach of duty of care.
Depending on where you are, there are multiple parties who will owe you a duty of care:
- Your employer. Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, your employer owes you, as one of their employees, a duty of care while you’re at work. This means that they must take reasonable steps to ensure your safety when working.
- Parties who control a public space (occupiers), such as a public park or library. Under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, occupiers of a public space owe you, as a member of the public, a duty of care while you’re visiting their space. This means that they must take steps to ensure your reasonable safety while on their premises.
- Road users. All road users, while on the roads, owe a duty of care to one another. This means that the rules in The Highway Code and the Road Traffic Act 1988 must be followed by all road users to ensure each other’s safety.
As such, here are the eligibility criteria that must be met before you can begin a hip injury compensation claim:
- Your employer, an occupier, or a road user owed you a duty of care.
- This party breached their duty of care by acting negligently.
- You sustained a hip injury as a result of this breach of duty.
Whether you have been injured in a road traffic accident, an accident at work, or a public place accident, if you meet the above criteria, then please contact us today. Our team can confirm your claim eligibility.
Common Causes Of Hip Injuries That Lead To Claims
There are many different ways negligence could potentially occur. Below, we have listed some example scenarios where you’d potentially have an eligible hip injury claim. This is to give you an idea of how duty of care can potentially be breached.
If you don’t find your circumstances below, please do not worry. As these are just a few examples, it is always best to explain your specific circumstances in detail to a member of our team.
Workplace Accidents
Here are some workplace accident examples that could potentially result in a hip injury claim being made:
- Your employer gave you a ladder to use to work from a height on a construction site. However, the ladder they gave you was broken, and they didn’t check the condition of the ladder beforehand. You consequently fall from the ladder as it collapses, causing you to fracture your hip.
- In a warehouse, a fellow employee has been asked by your employer to operate a forklift truck. However, your fellow employee has not received any training on such a device. Because of this, the fellow employee can’t control the truck and consequently runs into the side of you, which leads to a broken hip.
- You work in retail, and your employee has unsafely stacked heavy delivery boxes in the corridor. As you’re walking past, the boxes fall and land on top of you. From this, you fracture your hip as well as other bones.
Road Traffic Accidents
Here are some road traffic accident examples that could potentially result in a hip injury claim being made:
- As you are waiting in traffic, the driver behind you is speeding. They, therefore, cannot brake in time, leading to a rear-end car accident. You have a broken hip from the impact.
- You are a pedestrian on a zebra crossing. A van driver, however, is using their mobile phone at the wheel and fails to see you at the crossing. They thus run you over, leading to multiple serious injuries, such as a broken hip and moderate brain damage.
- You are a cyclist on a roundabout. A drunk driver flies onto the roundabout without stopping at the junction. They, therefore, drive into the side of your bike, causing you to fall off and fracture your hip.
Accidents In Public Places
Here are some public place accident examples that could potentially result in a hip injury claim being made:
- There is a spillage in a supermarket on the floor. However, there are no wet floor signs next to the spillage. Because of the lack of warning signs, you slip and fall on the spillage, causing you to fracture your pelvis.
- You are at the gym. There is a piece of gym equipment that is defective, but the occupier hasn’t fixed this because they have not conducted any regular or recent maintenance checks. Thus, you use a piece of machinery that breaks on you. This leads to you suffering a broken hip along with other crushing injuries.
- You are cycling on a road that the council are responsible for. You ride over a large pothole that has been reported to the council many times. But, they have not done anything to repair the pothole despite receiving numerous reports. Consequently, you fall off your bicycle as you ride over the pothole, leading to a hip fracture.
Types Of Hip Injuries You Can Claim For
There are various types of hip injuries you could claim compensation for if negligence occurred, such as:
- Soft tissue injuries.
- Dislocations.
- Sprains and strains.
- Breaks and fractures.
Additionally, the above injuries could also involve other body parts, such as where the spine and pelvis connect and where the socket for the femur bone is.
If you have suffered multiple injuries, you can claim for them all if they were caused by a breached duty of care.
Can I Claim For A Minor Hip Injury?
Yes, you can potentially claim compensation for any type of hip injury, regardless of whether the injury is minor or more severe.
For a free case evaluation, and to get a more accurate estimate of how much compensation for a broken hip you could potentially claim, have a chat with us today.
How To Make A Hip Injury Claim
Before you make a hip injury claim, you should seek medical attention as soon as you can. Your medical records can be used as part of your evidence later on in the claims process to confirm the severity of your hip injury.
Then, all you have to do is chat with one of our advisors. They can discuss your circumstances with you. If they confirm your claim eligibility, they can connect you with one of the specialist personal injury solicitors from our panel, who can get your claim started.
Gather Supporting Evidence
A vital part of the claims process is to gather your evidence. Your evidence must prove how negligence has occurred.
Such evidence includes:
- A copy of your medical records, including copies of any scan images.
- CCTV or dash-cam footage of the accident occurring.
- Photographs of what caused the accident, if possible (for example, a picture of a broken ladder if you fell from a height at work).
- Photographs of your hip injury, if visible.
- Contact information from any witnesses to the accident, such as fellow employees.
- A personal diary you have kept where you have recorded your symptoms and treatment.
How Long You Have To Make A Claim
The Limitation Act 1980 states that with all personal injury claims, you have 3 years to begin the claims process. These 3 years run from the date of the accident.
The only time where an exception is made to this time limit is if the claimant is either:
- Younger than 18.
- Lacking their full mental capacity.
In these cases, the time limit is paused.
While the time limit is paused, a litigation friend may be able to step in for the claimant and make a claim for them. However, if a litigation friend has not been appointed by the time the claimant either:
- Turns 18.
- Regains their full mental capacity.
Then the 3-year time limit will commence from these points as usual (starting from either their 18th birthday, or from the date of their mental recovery).
If you want to make a hip injury claim either for yourself or on behalf of someone else, you can contact us today to try and get the claims process started as soon as possible.
How Long It Takes On Average To Get Compensation For A Hip Injury
There is no set average time for how long claiming compensation for a hip injury could take. This is because there are numerous factors that could determine this, such as:
- The severity of your injury. Typically, claims where there’s a more serious injury take longer because it would take longer to find out the full long-term effects of the injury.
- How quickly it takes to gather all evidence.
- Whether or not the defendant accepts liability for the accident.
- How long it takes to acquire expert opinions. For example, the opinion of a medical expert if you have an independent medical assessment during the claims process.
- Whether negotiations need to happen, and how long they will take. For example, you may need to negotiate with the defendant if the compensation amount you’re offered isn’t fully accurate.
Why Trust Our Panel Of Solicitors With Your Claim?
If you have an eligible hip injury claim, you can trust our panel of solicitors to make the claims process as simple as possible for you. They have many years of experience in the legal field and can offer the following services:
- Gather your evidence.
- Correspond on your behalf to the defendant.
- Explain legal jargon.
- Accurately and fairly value your compensation.
- Find legal representation for you if the case goes to court.
- Ensure the claim is submitted within the time period.
The process of claiming compensation may seem daunting. This is also why our panel of solicitors provide their services under a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). A CFA is a specific type of No Win No Fee agreement, meaning that you don’t pay anything for your solicitor’s fees:
- Before the claim begins.
- Throughout the entire claims process.
- If the case is unsuccessful.
Your solicitor will just keep a small percentage of your compensation if the case is successful. This percentage is referred to as the success fee. By law, success fees are capped to ensure that the client always receives the majority of the compensation.
Because our panel of solicitors work under a CFA, they won’t take on any claims if they don’t feel like they’d win.
So, if you’re connected with a solicitor from our panel, they can greatly help you claim hip injury compensation in a simple and clear way. To find out whether your hip injury claim is eligible, please contact us today. You can talk to our team for free, any time of the day, any day of the week:
- Call 0800 408 7826.
- Fill out our contact us form.
- Message in our live chat feature.
More Information
View some of our other similar personal injury claims guides here:
- You can claim for any psychological injuries you have suffered after an accident that wasn’t your fault.
- How to claim compensation for a rib fracture.
- How to claim compensation for a fractured shoulder.
Additionally, these pages might be useful for you:
- NHS – advice on how to recover from a hip replacement surgery.
- NHS – advice on how to cope with hip pain in adults.
- Gov.UK – information on how to receive Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if you’ve had time off work due to your hip injury.
Thank you for reading our guide on the average compensation for a hip injury in the UK. We hope that all of your questions have been answered. If they haven’t, our advisors will be happy to help you with any of your claim enquiries.