Need information on hip injury claims? You may be entitled to personal injury compensation if you suffered hip and pelvis injuries caused by others. Perhaps you are interested in working with a solicitor to get a claim started. This guide can help:
Key Takeaways In Hip Injury Claims
- If you have been in an accident that was someone else’s fault and injured your hip, you may be able to claim compensation.
- Compensation can cover the physical and psychological harm caused to you, as well as the related financial losses..
- There’s a three-year time restriction on starting a personal injury claim, but exceptions exist.
- You will need evidence to prove your claim
- Our expert personal injury solicitors could help you on a No Win No Fee basis.
If you’re interested in seeing whether you can begin hip injury claims for compensation, please continue reading. Or you can:
- Ring us now on 0800 073 8801
- Contact us to begin your claim online.
- Use our live discussion window below.
Go To A Part Of Our Hip Injury Claims Guide
- What Qualifies As A Hip Injury?
- Can I Make A Hip Injury Claim?
- How Can These Kinds Of Injuries Happen?
- Common Types Of Hip Injuries
- Compensation For Pelvis And Hip Injury Claims
- How Long Do I Have To Start A Claim?
- How To Make A Hip Injury Claim
- Can Accident Claims Help Me With The Hip Injury Claims Process?
- Learn More
What Qualifies As A Hip Injury?
The term ‘hip injury’ can include the following:
- Ligament tears, hamstring and muscular damage.
- The strain, dislocation or fracture of one or both hip joints.
- Damage to the hip bone (femoral head) and socket (acetabulum).
- Pelvic fractures that affect the Ilium, ischium, and pubis bones.
- Breaks in the femoral neck.
- Injuries involving all these parts.
This resource from the NHS offers useful information about hip injuries. If you’re worried your injury may not qualify to start a claim, speak to us first.
Can I Make A Hip Injury Claim?
To make a hip injury claim, you must be able to prove the eligibility criteria. These are:
- You were owed a duty of care by a third party
- This duty was breached
- The breach caused you to suffer harm, in this case, a hip injury
You can be owed a duty of care in many areas of life. Some of the main places where a hip injury could occur and form the basis of a compensation claim are as follows:
- Accidents at work – The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HASAWA) says that employers have to reasonably and practicably act to protect their staff from harm while working. An example breach would be providing staff with a broken ladder that caused them to fall and break their hip.
- Accidents in public places – The Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 outlines the duty of care for those responsible for places open to the public. They must implement the necessary reasonable steps to keep the public safe while using their premises or facilities as intended. A hip injury here could result when a customer tripped on a concealed step in a badly lit restaurant.
- Road traffic accidents – Road users must conduct themselves in a manner that avoids causing harm and damage on the roads. To fully comply with the duty of care here they need to follow the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the other rules and obligations set out in the Highway Code. A breach of duty of care might be changing lanes without indicating and hitting a cyclist.
If you sustained a hip injury somewhere and are unsure as to who might be liable to compensate you, speak to our expert advisory team for free guidance.
Can I Claim For The Psychological Effects Of A Hip Injury?
Yes, if you have medical evidence that proves a diagnosed psychiatric disorder resulted from a serious injury to your hip. Stress and general anxiety can also be included, as well as more serious psychological damage. Talk to our advisors about the best way to include mental health injuries in your claim.
How Can These Kinds Of Injuries Happen?
Using the areas where a breached duty of care could prompt hip injury, we now look at some other examples:
- An employer fails to ensure computer cables are stored away correctly, and an employee slips, trips or falls and dislocates their hip.
- An employee in a supermarket fails to clean up or place warning signs around a spilt liquid. A customer slips in this and suffers a fractured pelvis in the fall.
- A motorist requires hip replacement surgery after a drunk driver involved them in a serious road traffic accident.
Whether an accident at work, in public, or on the roads, if the root cause of the hip injury you suffered was due to someone else’s negligent actions, you could have a claim. Connect with the team to discuss your options.
Common Types Of Hip Injuries
Next, we explore some commonly encountered hip injury types:
- General hip pain.
- Dislocations of the hip ball and socket.
- Hairline, multiple, compound, transverse or segmental fractures in the pelvis area (including ischial, pubic and rami areas).
- Labral tears – where the cartilage covering the hip joint’s ball and socket tears or detaches.
- Bursitis – this is when the bursae become inflamed and create pain when moving.
- Tendinitis – Inflammation in the tendons around the hip joint.
Other less severe injuries to the hip can include pain, numbness, swelling and difficulty moving. It’s possible to suffer a combination of injuries, so talk to our advisors about submitting a claim that covers any multiple injuries you have.
Compensation For Pelvis And Hip Injury Claims
When a hip injury compensation claim is successful, the total award is often comprised of two categories of loss: general and special damages. General damages place a monetary value on the pain and anguish the person experienced, as well as psychological harm and the impact on their overall quality of life.
The agencies responsible for the calculation of general damages often refer to medical evidence. In addition to this, a publication called the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) is regularly consulted. It lists suggested compensation bracket sums for various injuries. However, each personal injury claim will vary, so check with us for precise guidance. Here is an excerpt from the JC Guidelines (except the first line):
Compensation Guidelines for Hip Injuries
| INJURY | HOW SEVERE? | COMPENSATION GUIDELINES | DEFINITIONS |
|---|---|---|---|
| More than one type of injury and Special Damages. | Serious | Up to £1 million plus. | The person will suffer several forms of serious injury and receive an award for impact on employment, as well as care costs. |
| Hip/Pelvis | (a) Severe (i) | £95,680 up to £159,770 | Extensive pelvic fractures that rupture the bladder and dislocate lower back joint causing unbearable pain and demanding spinal fusion surgery. |
| (a) Severe (ii) | £75,550 up to £95,680 | Injuries less severe than bracket above with slightly differing features like fractures to the ischial and pubic rami areas. | |
| (a) Severe (iii) | £47,810 up to £64,070 | This bracket covers a wide range of injuries including acetabulum fractures that lead to degenerative changes. | |
| (b) Moderate (i) | £32,450 up to £47,810 | Despite significant pelvic or hip injury, permanent disability (or future risk of) is not considered to be great. | |
| (b) Moderate (ii) | £15,370 up to £32,450 | Cases that may necessitate hip replacement or other surgeries. | |
| (c) Lesser Injuries (i) | £4,820 up to £15,370 | Instances where despite initially significant levels of injury, little (or no) residual disability is found. | |
| (c) Lesser Injuries (ii) | Up to £4,820 | Minor soft tissue damage from which a complete recovery is made. | |
| Psychological Harm | (c) Moderate | £7,150 up to £23,270 | The person may have experienced emotional anguish or psychiatric harm but improves significantly by the time any case needs to be heard at trial. |
Special Damages
Under special damages, the person can claim back the financial losses they experienced because of their injuries. The evidence you can submit to claim these might include:
- Any payslips that reveal a decrease or loss in earnings because you could not work.
- Medical costs for private treatments.
- Proof of long-term expense such as rehabilitation.
- Proof of the costs of adaptations needed in your home (like a wheelchair ramp) or modifications to your car.
- Evidence that you had to pay others for domestic help.
It’s a good idea to retain all paperwork at this point. If your claim qualifies and you choose to use one of our specialist personal injury solicitors to help, they will comb through this evidence with you. You could receive a much higher amount of compensation in your hip injury claim.
How Long Do I Have To Start A Claim?
The Limitation Act 1980 lays out a three-year time limit in which to start a personal injury claim for compensation. This standard deadline can be altered for certain claimants:
- Minors cannot start personal injury claims until they turn 18. The three-year time frame starts from this birthday.
- The time limit is frozen for those lacking mental capacity. The three-year limit starts from the date that any capacity is regained.
- Both groups can start a claim immediately through a litigation friend. This role is allocated by the courts and is typically taken on by a parent or other suitable adult who manages the claim on the person’s behalf. If a litigation friend is used, the same claim cannot be made again later.
Our team of advisors are happy to discuss time limits and any other aspect of hip injury claims. Call, email or ask the live chat a question below.
How To Make A Hip Injury Claim
After satisfying yourself that you meet the criteria to claim, there are some actions you can take to start constructing your case:
- Evidence – Start to assemble anything you have that proves a third party breached their duty of care to you and left you with hip injuries. You can request CCTV film that caught the accident or get the contact details of any witnesses. Medical records such as X-rays or consultations with specialists are useful evidence too.
- Seek Legal Advice – You might also want to reach out to a solicitor for help. Although anyone can manage a personal injury claim themselves, it makes sense to take advantage of the expertise and insights of a lawyer. Call to see how our solicitors could provide you with excellent legal representation.
Can Accident Claims Help Me With The Hip Injury Claims Process?
Our solicitors are experts at handling hip injury claims and provide their clients with an array of outstanding services. If they can take up the claim, they will:
- Make sure that all losses are added to your claim and aim for the most compensation for you that they can.
- Attend to all communications with the other side and follow the Pre-Action Protocol steps that need to be taken.
- Keep you updated about the claim and explain any legal terminology.
- Meet the court deadlines that might be set for reports, statements or other information.
- Professionally represent you at every stage in the hip injury claims process – allowing you the time and space to recover.
What Is A Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA)?
In addition to all this, the solicitors on our panel offer a type of No Win No Fee contract to eligible claimants. They often use a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) due to the fact it gives so many benefits to the person seeking compensation. For example, under a CFA there are:
- No upfront solicitors fees to pay.
- No fees to pay for solicitors’ work going forward.
- No solicitors fees to pay if the claim does not settle in your favour.
- Only a small percentage needs deducting from the compensation if the claim is a success. This amount is the ‘success fee’ for the solicitors.
- Because the success fee is capped, you can expect to receive almost all of the compensation awarded.
Why not discover if you could access excellent legal representation without the worry of immediate solicitor’s fees? Simply speak to the team for your free, no-obligation case check:
- Ring us now on 0800 073 8801 to see how much compensation you’re owed.
- Contact us to begin your claim online after hip and pelvis injuries that were not your fault.
- Chat about hip injury compensation amounts through the discussion window below.
Learn More
As well as hip injury claims information, these other resources offer an in-depth look at other related topics:
- This guide explores compensation in a hip replacement claim.
- Here, we look at pelvic injury claims in greater depth.
- Also, information about how to claim if you slipped on the stairs at work.
Extra help:
- When to call 999.
- Here, you can check your symptoms.
- Lastly, information on a hip replacement from the NHS.
Thanks for reading our hip injury claims guide. If you’re keen to learn more about how personal injury lawyers can handle hip injury claims for you, reach out to the team.
