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ACIC

post again in the legal forums, they have a lawyer on here called ACIC.

He will be able to give a better answer than the rest of us.

Judging by injuries, lots of pennies.

Hope it works out okay.

Compensation claim

Dear Drew

The amount of money you will receive for your injuries will depend on your prognosis, which will be determined by having you examined by an independent (to the treating surgeon) orthopaedic surgeon who will then write a report on your injuries and prognosis. I suspect if you obtained a medical report at this stage it will be a preliminary one and you will need to be examined again, say 12 months down the line and possibly again, depending on the degree of recovery. My experience of these injuries is that recovery may not ever be complete and to get to the stage of having a reasonably certain prognosis can take years. My gut feeling is that the bottom line (if you make a good recovery) would be about £20,000 for the injuries but to properly value the claim I would need to see medical evidence. If the prognosis is poor then this would go up considerably. Awards for injuries are actually quite low in this country. The real money in more serious claims often relates to financial losses such as past and future loss of earnings, care and private surgery. If amputation is a risk due, for example to non-union of the bone, then the award will be yet higher and costs of prosthetics, often running into hundreds of thousands of pounds, can be claimed. There is obviously a lot more to valuing a claim but I hope this gives you a rough guide.

Kind regards, Andrew Campbell, Solicitor, MCN Legal Expert and MCN Law Columnist. www.bikelawyer.co.uk