Nerve Damage Claims

Compensation can make a real difference to your life, helping you access the healthcare and support you need to make the best possible recovery. By making a nerve damage claim with us, we can get you funds which can help pay for:

• Physiotherapy
• Psychological therapy
• Private surgery (where appropriate)
• Expenses (such as travel costs to hospital appointments)
• Loss of income
• Any aids or equipment you need
• Household adaptations

The amount of compensation you get will depend on the severity of your injuries and the likelihood that you’ll make a full recovery. We’ll seek expert opinions on what care you’ll need and will make sure that your compensation can cover their suggestions.

If the medical professional or organisation that performed your negligent surgery accepts responsibility for your injuries, we can help you get interim payments. These are early compensation payments that can help you to fund trips to hospital, medical treatment, and make up for any loss of earnings you may have experienced. Interim payments are deducted from your final compensation amount.

The usual time limit in nerve damage compensation claims is three years. The limit starts from the date you received negligent care that caused your nerve damage. If you learned later that your nerve damage was caused by medical negligence, the three-year limit will begin from this date. There are two exceptions to this three-year limit:

• Children under 18 years old (the three-year limit begins when a child reaches the age of 18, so the claim must be brought by their 21st birthday)
• People without the mental capacity to make their own claim

If someone lacks the mental capacity to make their own claim, you may be able to claim on their behalf.

We’re able to handle most medical negligence claims using a no win no fee agreement. If you make a no win no fee claim, you won’t need to pay anything upfront and you won’t incur any fees if your claim is unsuccessful.

You’ll only need to pay if your claim succeeds, and even then, most of our fees will be paid by your opponent. We’ll need to take out an After The Event (ATE) insurance policy on your behalf, which ensures there’s no financial risk to you. We’ll discuss the finer details and alternative funding options before we start working for you.

Nerves are fibres that carry information around your body and are vital to everything that your body does. This information includes your brain telling your body what to do and your body telling your brain what it senses, e.g. heat and pain. There are also nerves that control involuntary processes in your body such as digestion or heart rate.

Damage to a nerve can interrupt this information and cause a range of potentially life-changing symptoms. It can stop your brain’s orders from reaching certain body parts or interfere with the sensations that you feel.

Surgical staff must take care to check the location of nearby nerves when operating anywhere in the body. This helps them avoid damaging a nerve by cutting, burning, stretching, or compressing it during an operation.

Medical staff can check where nerves are with radiology before the operation or visually during the procedure itself. The most common forms of surgical nerve damage are:

• Severance of the radial nerve
• Nerve severance during hip replacement surgery
• Nerve severance during knee replacement surgery
• Spinal cord injury by epidural

If you’ve been affected by one of these types of surgical nerve injury or any other, please contact us to find out how you can make a nerve damage claim.