An injury like a broken or fractured wrist can have a disruptive influence on your life, impacting your ability to work, drive, and enjoy hobbies. If you’ve sustained an injury to your wrist that wasn’t your fault, our solicitors could help you to make a wrist injury claim for compensation. This could be due to a broken or fractured wrist.

Contact us to arrange a free initial consultation about making a wrist injury compensation claim.

We can help you to claim compensation for various types of wrist injury, including:

  • Broken wrist
  • Fractured wrist
  • Strained or sprained wrist
  • Dislocation
  • Soft tissue injury
  • Damage to ligaments
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Osteoarthritis caused by work
  • Acceleration of arthritis as a result of traumatic injury.

Wrist injuries may result in a loss of earnings, or you may need to retrain completely if you can no longer perform your role. We can help you arrange rehabilitation and may be able to secure interim compensation payments, which can help with costs such as hospital travel to your appointments and private rehabilitation for your injuries.

Why choose Irwin Mitchell to manage your wrist injury claim?

We’ve the largest team of personal injury solicitors in the UK, giving us an unrivalled amount of expertise to get you the compensation you deserve. We’ve secured a record £1.5 billion in personal injury compensation for our clients.

Our solicitors understand that making a claim can be stressful for you and your loved ones. We leave out the legal jargon and give you plain advice that we believe will best serve your case. We’ll treat your wrist injury claim with the sensitivity and understanding needed to make you feel at ease.

We work in a flexible way to help make the claims process an easy one for you. If you’d rather visit us for a confidential talk with your solicitor, we have offices across the UK. If you can’t travel, we can set up phone or video calls or visit you at home or in hospital.

While your wrist injury claim is ongoing, we’ll put you in touch with our in-house support services. Our team of clinical specialists can help you to access any support or rehabilitation you need to aid your recovery from your wrist injury.

We’re proud sponsors and partners of charities and support groups all over the UK. This means we can help you to find support that’s close by if required.

If you’ve been unable to work, even temporarily, because of your wrist injury, our Welfare Benefits team can advise you of any benefits you may be entitled to. They can then assist you to access this financial support.

To make sure you claim your full benefit entitlement, we can set up a personal injury trust on your behalf. This separates your compensation from the rest of your finances, stopping it from being factored into calculating your benefit entitlement for any benefits which are means tested.

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More information on wrist injury compensation claims

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the most common causes of wrist injuries?

We’ve helped people to claim compensation for injuries such as a broken or fractured wrist caused by a wide range of circumstances.

Some of the most common causes of wrist injuries that could entitle you to claim include:

If you sustained an injury to your wrist by a cause not listed here, contact us. We’ll advise you on if you’re eligible to make a claim.

What evidence do you need to support a wrist injury compensation claim?

The evidence we’ll use to support your claim varies depending on the cause of your wrist injury.

Some of the most common types of evidence we can submit in a claim includes:

  • Witness statements
  • Police reports
  • Medical records
  • Receipts
  • Workplace accident reports
  • Photographic and/or video evidence.

We can also arrange for your wrist to be examined by an independent medical professional. Their impartial and expert opinion can help us to prove the cause of your injury and the impact it’ll have on you in the short- and long-term. This can help us to secure the full amount of compensation you need.

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