Last Updated 11th November 2024. If you’ve experienced golfer’s elbow or tennis elbow from a car accident that wasn’t your fault, you may be able to claim compensation. Injuries like this can result in you needing tennis elbow surgery, potentially leaving you unable to work while recovering. Therefore, based on the severity of the injury, you could receive thousands of pounds in compensation after suffering a tennis elbow from a car accident.
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- Call us on 0800 073 8804.
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To learn more about making personal injury claims for injuries, such as suffering tennis elbow after a car accident, please read on.
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- What Is Tennis Elbow?
- Why Do Car Accidents Cause Tennis Elbow?
- Tennis Elbow Symptoms
- Calculating Compensation For Tennis Elbow From A Car Accident
- No Win No Fee Claims For Tennis Elbow From A Car Accident
- Claims Related To Tennis Elbow After A Car Accident
What Is Tennis Elbow?
Your three arm bones are your humerus, ulna and radius. Given our reliance on lifting and moving using our arms, a tendon, such as your bicep, tricep or the muscle, extensor carpi radialis brevis, can be injured. The extensor carpi radialis brevis is particularly significant, as, if you’re suffering from a tennis elbow, this has likely been injured.
Tennis elbow is a condition that causes pain and discomfort around the outside of your elbow. It can usually be caused by repeated action of the muscle. It can make it difficult to lift and bend your arm due to the pain caused. However, you can also suffer tennis elbow from a car accident due to your arm muscles and tendons becoming strained by the incident.
What Is Golfer’s Elbow?
Golfer’s elbow, referred to medically as medial epicondylitis, could also result in you researching how to use a personal injury lawyer. The nature of the injury is very similar to a tennis elbow. However, the main difference with this elbow injury is that the pain is experienced on the inside part of the elbow, as opposed to the outside.
The pain may occur when you’re using that part of your arm. Therefore, it can make it painful to clench or twist the arm and generally lift or move objects. However, in extreme cases, the pain can be persistent, much like with a tennis elbow.
If you did suffer a permanent elbow injury from a car accident, it could greatly affect the amount of compensation you would receive should your claim be successful. This is because the compensation is based on the extent and severity of your injury. If you’d like more guidance regarding potential compensation amounts, please contact us for free legal advice via our website or call us using the details above.
Why Do Car Accidents Cause Tennis Elbow?
You may be wondering, “How can you suffer tennis elbow from a car accident?” Similar to other elbow injuries that can be caused by a car accident, such as a sprain, dislocation or fracture, it depends on how your arm has been affected by the crash. If your arm has been pulled and stretched or had excessive pressure on it from, for instance, a car door, it could cause you to develop tennis elbow.
Other ways you could suffer tennis elbow from a car accident include:
- The force of impact jolting your braced arm as you’re crashing.
- Your elbow striking part of the car during the moment of impact.
- Your arm becoming strained due to debris falling on it. This could result in your arm being in an awkward position, leading to you making an elbow injury claim.
The Highway Code And Personal Injury Claims
You may be able to claim for this because every road user has a duty of care to one another. Every road user should follow the rules set out in The Highway Code. The Code is designed to make sure road users act responsibly and carefully when conducting themselves to limit accidents.
By defining what is considered careful driving, the Code establishes reckless or careless driving as any road conduct that goes against or breaches these rules. If you’re conducting yourself in a reckless manner while using the road, it could be argued that you’re going against your duty of care.
This means that you have a right to claim if you’ve suffered tennis elbow after a car accident if another road user’s negligence caused the accident and your injuries. You can also claim for other arm injuries, such as a broken arm. To learn more about this, please contact our advisors. They offer free legal advice and are available 24/7 by using the phone number at the top of this page.
Tennis Elbow Symptoms
NHS guidance clarifies the nature of tennis elbow symptoms. They include:
- Pain and tenderness on the outside of your elbow.
- Pain in your forearm
- Potentially, you could also suffer from pain in the back of your hand.
The intensity of the injury can vary. You may only experience mild pain while using your elbow. However, you could also suffer intense pain while your elbow isn’t being used. This is the more debilitating version of the injury, as it could leave you in constant pain. This is one of the reasons you may be looking to gain compensation after suffering a tennis elbow from a car accident.
You may also be in the process of developing tennis elbow when you experience a car accident. This could cause you to develop a particularly severe case of it upon the accident occurring. Warning signs include:
- Tenderness on the outside part of your elbow
- Elbow stiffness occurring in the morning, causing persistent aching.
- Your forearm muscles becoming sore.
The condition can progress gradually. Therefore, over time, what began as a mild nuisance could develop into absolute agony. With that in mind, it’s important to note that you would only be able to claim for the injury if it was caused or exacerbated by the accident that someone else caused.
Calculating Compensation For Tennis Elbow From A Car Accident
There are two potential heads of claim when making a personal injury claim.
- General damages relate to the physical and psychological harm caused by the injury, as well as its impact on your quality of life.
- Special damages relate to the financial losses caused by the injury, which you may be able to claim back with sufficient evidence.
The amount of compensation you could receive depends on how much you’re able to claim. Just because you receive general damages compensation upon your claim being successful doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll receive special damages compensation. This is because they are independently calculated based on the evidence provided.
The Judicial College analyses previous general damages payouts, comparing them to the severity and nature of the injury. As such, they’ve been able to create reliable compensation brackets that can help you understand the amount of compensation you could receive. We use this information so we can provide you with the most up-to-date compensation estimate.
Below is a list of injuries and their respective compensation brackets. The Judicial College has provided these figures. Please note that the first entry is not from the JCG, and that this table uses tariffs from the Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021.
| Type of Injury | Amount of Compensation |
|---|---|
| Multiple severe injuries and special damages, like lost earnings | Up to £100,000+ |
| Elbow (a) | £47,810 to £66,920 |
| Elbow (b) | £19,100 to £39,070 |
| Elbow (c) | £4,310 |
| Elbow (d) | £6,700 to £7,930 |
| Arm | £8,060 to £23,430 |
| 1+ Whiplash Injury & 1+ Psychological Injury | £4,345 |
| 1+ Whiplash Injury | £4,215 |
To prove general damages, you’d attend a medical assessment as part of the claims process. An independent medical professional would assess your injuries and create a report. The purpose of this is to:
- Prove that your injuries were caused or worsened by the accident.
- Assess the severity of your injuries.
Your solicitor can use the report to help them value your injuries.
You can also claim in other instances. We can also help if you’ve suffered a back injury from a car accident or if you want to claim for a family car accident.
If you’d like a free, accurate estimate of what you could claim, why not reach out?
Calculating Special Damages
Special damages are more about claiming for financial losses you’ve suffered because of the injury. Things you may be able to claim include:
- Loss of earnings
- Loss of future earnings
- Travel costs
- Medicine/prescriptions
- Recreational activities that you can no longer attend due to the injury (lost deposits, for example)
Please remember that your personal injury solicitor or lawyer will request evidence to validate the financial losses. In this regard, the evidence could include receipts, invoices or bank statements. If you’re unable to provide evidence, it may mean that you’ll be unable to successfully claim for the financial losses caused by tennis elbow from a car accident.
If you have any questions or queries regarding what you can or can’t claim, please call us to speak to one of our experienced, helpful advisors. They offer free legal advice, are available 24/7 and can be reached using the phone number at the top of this page.
No Win No Fee Claims For Tennis Elbow From A Car Accident
So, why should you make your claim on a No Win No Fee basis if you suffered tennis elbow from a car accident? There are a number of reasons why. While it isn’t mandatory, we always recommend making your claim with the help of a legal expert.
For example, a solicitor can help you better understand the ins and outs of how to claim for tennis elbow, and they can also help you support and strengthen your case with evidence.
Our solicitors can do all of this and more on a No Win No Fee basis by offering their services through a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This is a kind of No Win No Fee arrangement that lets you access their expert services without having to pay anything upfront or as the claim goes on.
In fact, under this kind of arrangement, you only have to pay a success fee if you successfully claim tennis elbow compensation payouts. This is taken straight from your compensation as a small percentage, though this percentage is limited by law.
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If you are ready to start your claim for tennis elbow after a car accident, contact our team today. They can provide a free evaluation, during this they may be able to tell you if you have a valid claim, and could potentially connect you with one of our expert road traffic accident solicitors. Get started by:
- Calling on 0800 073 8804
- Starting your claim online
- Using the live chat feature
Claims Related To Tennis Elbow After A Car Accident
For more useful information, use the links below.
To discover more about what could cause tennis elbow, read this guidance from the NHS.
Want to know the exercises that could help you recover from tennis elbow? If so, read the guide.
Read this guide to learn more about golfer’s elbow.
To see if you can claim for a tennis elbow injury from work, read this article on our website.
Suffered from below the elbow arm amputation? To see if you can claim, read this.
Read more about claiming for a forearm fracture.
- Hastings Direct Insurance Claims Guide
- Tesco Insurance Claims Guide
- Admiral Insurance Claims Guide
- Aviva Insurance Claims Guide
To learn more about how to claim for a tennis elbow from a car accident, call us using the contact details at the top of the page.
Written by Durdy
Edited by Victorine
