If you have recently undergone an amputation you may want to know if you have a legal claim. The best way to ascertain this is to speak with a personal injury or clinical negligence specialist.
To make this process easier for you we have formed the Limb Loss Legal Panel. This panel consists of The Douglas Bader Foundation, The Limbless Association and five legal firms with a specialisation and experience in working with amputees. We hope that this partnership will make the experience of ascertaining if you have a claim and pursuing a claim a less painful experience for you.
Legal Claims relating to a loss of limb generally fall into two area:
Personal Injury
Personal injury is when you have suffered and endured both physical or emotional injuries due to somebody else's actions. That somebody else may be another person, a major corporation or an organisation.
Medical Negligence
To succeed in a claim alleging medical negligence (also know as clinical negligence) against a medical practioneer or the NHS the patient (who becomes a claimant) must prove that the practioneer, hospital did something wrong or failed to do something which they should have done — a Breach of Duty. If proved, the claimant must then be able to show that they have come to some harm as a result — Causation.
The onus is on the claimant to prove that the treatment has fallen below the standard of a reasonable body of doctors practising in the same field, and that harm has resulted.
