Broken Tibias and Personal Injury Compensation
If you have had the misfortune to break your tibia in an accident for which you were not entirely at fault, you may have the right to make broken tibia personal injury claims for compensation. This page explains the most frequently used procedures for making personal injury claims for broken tibia compensation in Ireland; however, at a time when you may still be in a significant amount of pain from your tibia injury, it is often more beneficial to you to have these procedures completed on your behalf by an experienced personal injury claims solicitor to ensure you receive a fair and adequate settlement of broken tibia personal injury compensation.
Qualifying for Broken Tibia Personal Injury Compensation
In order to qualify for broken tibia personal injury compensation, it has to be shown that you sustained a broken tibia due to somebody else´s carelessness. This carelessness might manifest as a negligent action – such as when a car driver pulls out in front of you without looking and you break your tibia in the subsequent collision – or from a negligent inaction, such as when your employer fails to adhere to health and safety regulations at work and you have a fall at work which results in a broken tibia personal injury*. As long as the accident in which your tibia was broken was the direct result of somebody else´s negligence, you should be qualified to make broken tibia personal injury* claims for compensation.
Your Health Comes Before Broken Tibia Personal Injury Claims
Irrespective of the circumstances in which you sustained your tibia injury, it is vital that you make your health your priority. No amount of broken tibia personal injury compensation will make up for a prolonged health issue which could have been avoided with immediate professional medical attention; and furthermore, if you exacerbated your tibia injury by your own lack of care, the settlement of your broken tibia personal injury claim may be reduced to reflect your own contribution to your injury. This comment applies equally to keeping broken tibia follow-up appointments after your discharge from hospital or if you made your tibia injury worse by trying to collect evidence of negligence at the scene of your accident.
Claiming Broken Tibia Compensation in Ireland
All broken tibia personal injury claims have to be submitted to the Injuries Board Ireland for assessment within two years of the accident in which your tibia was broken. Although this may seem like plenty of time in which to collect evidence in support of personal injury claims for a broken tibia, it is often better to submit your application for assessment sooner rather than later, as the Injuries Board Ireland´s remit is to assess the value of compensation awards for broken tibia injuries rather than allocate blame for your tibia injury.
Should the negligent party deny their liability for your tibia injury, or the Injuries Board Ireland´s assessment of your broken tibia personal injury claim be less than your solicitor calculates you are entitled to, you will be able to obtain an Authorisation from the Injuries Board Ireland to pursue your claim for broken tibia personal injury compensation through the courts. To delay submitting an assessment for broken tibia personal injury compensation to the Injuries Board Ireland, could extend how long it takes to resolve your broken tibia personal injury claim.
Broken Tibia Compensation Settlements in Ireland
The reason why so many compensation awards for broken tibia injuries assessed by the Injuries Board Ireland are rejected by claimants and their solicitors is that the application form for assessment (both online and paper copy) allows little room for claimants to elaborate on the effect that a broken tibia personal injury has made to their quality of life. Although fair and adequate broken tibia compensation settlements in Ireland can be resolved in court after the Injuries Board Ireland´s assessment, it is often much more effective to have a solicitor negotiate broken tibia personal injury* claims with the negligent party´s insurers as soon as it is known how much compensation for a broken tibia personal injury you are entitled to.
Broken tibia compensation settlements in Ireland should not only account for the pain and suffering you experienced during your accident, but also for the physical and emotional consequences throughout your recovery from a broken tibia personal injury. Therefore, if you are unable to complete everyday tasks, drive or engage in leisure and social pursuits because you have a broken tibia, these factors should be included in broken tibia personal injury claims. Any psychological trauma you have experienced due to the nature of the accident in which you broke your tibia or due to your immobility can also be incorporated into a claim for broken tibia compensation, and broken tibia compensation settlements in Ireland should also account for any financial costs you have incurred which are directly attributable to your broken tibia personal injury to ensure that you are no worse off financially than if the accident in which your tibia was broken had never happened.
Free Legal Advice about Broken Tibia Personal Injury Claims
If you have sustained a broken tibia personal injury in an accident for which you were not entirely at fault, no matter what stage of the broken tibia personal injury claims procedure you have reached, you are invited to call our legal claims advice helpline and discuss the circumstances of the accident in which your tibia was broken directly with an experienced personal injury claims solicitor. Our solicitor will answer any questions you may have regarding personal injury claims for broken tibia compensation in Ireland and provide a free assessment of your claim in order to establish whether you have a broken tibia personal injury compensation claim which is worth your while to pursue.
There is no obligation on you to proceed with a broken tibia personal injury claim once you have spoken with us and all calls to our legal claims advice helpline are completely confidential. Please note that our telephone lines are manned 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and if it is not a suitable time for you to speak with us right now about your broken tibia personal injury, you can request a call from an Irish solicitor by completing the form below and one of our broken tibia personal injury claims team will call you back when it is more convenient for you.