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Foot Injury Claims
If you have suffered an injury to your foot or toes in an accident, and you believe that someone else was to blame, our specialist personal injury lawyers may be able to assist you in making a compensation claim.
Contact us on 0800 0328511, or by completing a personal injury claim enquiry form online, for specialist accident claim advice. You keep 100% of your compensation.
Foot Injuries
Foot Injury Causes
Foot Injury Prevention and Treatment
Making a Foot Injury Claim
Foot Injury Compensation
Our Specialist Personal Injury Lawyers
Successful Foot Injury Compensation Claims
Foot Injuries
The foot is a complicated structure, consisting of numerous bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints. Our feet are in almost constant use, taking our full body weight, and are therefore vulnerable to injuries.
• Foot fractures – fractured metatarsal, fractured heel, stress fracture etc.
• Dislocation
• Crush injuries
• Foot sprains and strains
• Toe injuries – fractures, sprains, tissue injuries
• Bruising
• Lacerations
• Puncture wounds – especially common on the bottom of the foot, through standing on sharp objects
• Burns – often occurring when hot or boiling fluid is spilt
• Toenail injuries
• Degloving injuries – where the skin is completely torn from the underlying tissue
• Amputation of the foot or toes
Foot Injury Causes
Foot injuries can occur in many different ways, including:
• Holiday accidents – foot injuries are quite common in holiday accidents as people will often wear flimsy footwear or even go barefoot, leaving them more vulnerable to injuries caused by sharp objects or slipping hazards.
• Accidents at work – a lack of health and safety measures in the workplace can often result in foot injuries at work.
• Falling objects – heavy or sharp objects that are dropped or fall from a height can damage the foot.
• Slips trips and falls – it there is a defective pavement or slippery surface, this can cause a person’s foot to twist over and become injured as they fall or try to regain their balance.
• Impact with obstacles – if an obstacle is left in a pedestrian walkway the foot or toes may impact with it.
• Sports injuries – sports injuries can occur due to playing on a defective pitch, with faulty equipment or insufficient protective wear can lead to a foot injury
• Road accidents – drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians and passengers are all at risk of foot injuries if they are involved in a road accident.
• Faulty or incorrect footwear – if you purchase footwear that is faulty or are provided with footwear that is incorrect, badly fitting or unsuitable by your employer (for example military personnel or building site workers) this can cause a foot injury.
Foot Injury Prevention and Treatment
There are some ways that the risks of sustaining a foot injury can be reduced. One of the main measures that you can take is to wear sensible footwear that fits correctly and is suitable for its purpose. This might include specialist footwear for sports, protective shoes or boots for work or footwear with a good level of grip in icy weather. Other steps that can be taken include using safe practices at work, such as correct manual handling procedures and care when operating machinery.
The treatment required for a foot injury will depend upon the type of injury sustained. For mild strains or bruising, rest, painkillers and the use of ice or cold compresses will often be an effective treatment.
You should always seek medical attention if you believe that your injury may require treatment from a doctor. Wounds might require suturing, burns may need to be dressed and foreign bodies may need to be removed from puncture wounds.
If a foot injury causes persistent pain, swelling or restricted movement, physiotherapy is often used. For injuries such as fractures and dislocations, an operation may be necessary, or the foot may be placed into a plaster cast for a while to keep the injured foot immobile whilst healing takes place.
In serious injury cases multiple surgeries can be required, sometimes resulting in a degree of permanent disability. An amputation may even be necessary, especially in the case of severe crush injuries.
Making a Foot Injury Claim
Most importantly, if you are considering making a personal injury claim for a foot injury, you should seek specialist legal advice from a reputable, experienced, personal injury lawyer.
In every case, medical evidence will be required and in any injury claim it is necessary to show that the person you are making a claim against owed you a duty of care, that they breached that duty of care (were negligent), and that the injury you sustained was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of that negligence. They may also be liable if they breached a statutory regulation .
For example, if you suffered a fall on a pavement caused by a hole or raised paving stone that should have been noticed and repaired, it is possible that the local authority could be found at fault. Similarly, if your injury occurred when another driver pulled out into your path when you had right of way, you may be in a position to make a claim. If however your accident was purely that, and no-one was to blame, it would not be possible to claim compensation.
Your lawyer can collate all of the evidence and advise on the best way to pursue a foot injury claim on your behalf. It always assists the lawyers in proving the case to have as much information as possible from you, such as witness details and photographs of the scene of the accident.
Foot Injury Compensation
If your claim is successful, and The Legal Line's solicitors will work hard to ensure that this is the case, you will be entitled to two elements of a compensation award.
The first is for the pain and suffering you have gone through and what is known as loss of amenity. This is called general damages and can include an award for your inability to do things after the accident that you used to be able to do before (eg wash your car, look after your garden, walk the dog). The award for loss of amenity can be for a short period after an accident or for ever if that is what the medical evidence supports.
The second element of a compensation award is for your losses and expenses and is known as special damages. It is important to keep receipts for any expenditure you have related to your foot injury, so that these can be reclaimed. The aim is to put you back in a position financially as if the accident had never occurred
Our Specialist Personal Injury Lawyers
At The Legal Line, our lawyers have decades of experience in recovering compensation for the innocent victims of personal injuries and can provide you with expert advice on your case.
Operating from a network of offices throughout the UK, your case will be handled efficiently and we will work hard to achieve the best possible outcome on your behalf.
Successful Foot Injury Compensation Claims
For details of some of the many cases handled by our lawyers involving foot injuries, follow the links below or visit our personal injury news and success stories sections:
Manual Handling Accident Results in Serious Foot Injury
Successful Compensation Claim for Accident in Supermarket
£105,000 Personal Injury Compensation for Child Injured on Farm
Damages Awarded for Injury Caused by Defective Drain Cover
Compensation for Council Employee Injured by Badly Fitting Work Boots
Pedestrian Injured in Road Accident Receives £13,000 Compensation
Engineer Suffers Serious Foot Injury in Workplace Accident
Personal Injury Caused by Hole on Council Property
Council Worker Compensated for Severe Crush Injury in Accident at Work
Man Suffers Serious Injuries in Avoidable Fall From Ladder
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