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Bladder Injury Compensation Claims Guide

By Cat Way. Last Updated 12th November 2024. In this guide, we will discuss bladder injury compensation claims. If you’ve suffered a bladder injury as a result of another party’s negligent actions, you may be entitled to claim.

Woman in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors following a bladder injury.

We will discuss when you could potentially make a bladder injury compensation claim, and outline the criteria that your case must meet in order to be valid. We will also discuss how a bladder injury can occur, including how an accident at work could lead to a bladder injury. Following this, we will discuss how compensation is calculated, and how a No Win No Fee solicitor could help you.

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Ruptured Bladder Compensation Claims

When it comes to bladder problems compensation claim statistics show that blunt trauma and penetrating accidents are the most common cause of bladder damage.

Blunt trauma is the more common of the two causes, primarily because they are often encountered in even low-speed road traffic accidents. When a person is involved in a car crash, the blunt trauma to the pelvis or lower abdomen can very easily damage the bladder.

If you have been involved in an accident such as a car or motorcycle crash, and the resulting blunt trauma damaged your bladder, then as long as the accident was not your fault, Legal Expert should be able to help you claim. Call us on the telephone number at the bottom of this guide to find out how we can help with bladder injury claims.

Prolapsed Bladder Compensation Claims

One of the more common reasons that women need to make bladder injury compensation claims, is due to a prolapsed bladder. Again, this is a childbirth injury most usually. It is caused by stretched or strained pelvic floor muscles. This means the bladder is no longer supported properly, and it can shift downwards, pressing onto the vagina, causing in mild cases nothing more than a bulge, but in serious cases, severe pain and problems passing water.

If you have bladder injury symptoms related to strained or stretched pelvic floor muscles after childbirth, it could be that the medical staff who managed the birth made a mistake, injuring your pelvic floor muscles. In this case, if you can Legal Expert on the telephone number at the bottom of this guide, we can help you make a claim for damages.

Bladder Accidents At Work

All employers have a duty of care to their employees under the Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974. The law requires employers to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of their employees.

Additional rules may apply depending on the work being carried out, such as the Work At Height Regulations 2005. It is the responsibility of an employer to adhere to all relevant health and safety legislation that is applicable to their workplace.

An example of an accident where bladder injury compensation could be sought could be an instance of inadequate maintenance. The safety inspections had not been carried out on company vehicles and therefore a throttle issue with one of them had been missed. Your colleague was driving the faulty vehicle with a load of goods when it began to accelerate uncontrollably. You were hit by the vehicle and suffered serious damage to your bladder and other internal organs, as well as several broken bones.

For more advice on bladder injury compensation claims, or learn more about your rights after an accident at work, contact our team today using the information provided above.

What Can Bladder Injury Compensation Claims Include?

If you have been affected by a bladder injury or some other medical condition such as bladder cancer, or if you have suffered clinical negligence, such as your bladder being damaged by a badly fitted urinary catheter, then you may be able to make a damages claim if it can be proven a third party caused the injury.

There are a number of standard types of damages that bladder injury claims settlements are commonly made up of, including:

  • General damages– all of the pain and suffering of the initial injury and any ongoing negative health effects:
    • Immediate pain and suffering – if an accident caused the bladder injury, then you can claim the pain and suffering of the accident, and also the treatment of your injury.
    • Psychological damage – this would cover longer-lasting problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder or depression that arose due to the injury.
    • Disabilities and permanent damage – for all long-term effects of the injury that will have a negative effect on a person’s life.
  • Special damages – all of the financial and other losses that are the result of the physical injury

Bladder Injury Compensation Claims Calculator

As we mentioned in the section above, your potential personal injury compensation settlement could include general and special damages.

Below, we have included a table featuring guideline compensation brackets taken from the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG). This is a document that solicitors and other legal professionals can refer to when valuing general damages.

Compensation Table

It’s important to note that these figures are guidelines, and as such, they aren’t guaranteed amounts. Also note that the figure at the top was not taken from the JCG.

InjurySeverityGuideline Amount
Multiple Severe Injuries and Special DamagesVery SeriousUp to £500,000+
Bladder InjuriesDouble Incontinence (a)Up to £224,790
Complete Loss of Function (b)Up to £171,680
Seriously Impaired Control (c)£78,080 to £97,540
Fairly Long-Term Interference with Function£28,570 to £38,210

Some bladder injury claims also result in special damages. However, in order to claim under this heading, you need to be able to provide proof of your financial losses. Evidence could include bank statements and receipts.

Special damages could help you recoup the cost of:

  •   Lost earnings.
  •   Prescriptions and over-the-counter medication.
  •   Travel to and from appointments and consultations.
  •   Childcare and domestic help.

To learn more about making a personal injury claim for a bladder injury, contact our team of advisors today.

No Win No Fee Bladder Damage Claims

If you need to make a claim for an injured bladder, you could finance the legal proceedings yourself. If you do this, and you lose your claim, you will be out of pocket to the tune of your total legal fees and costs. Legal Expert has a much better option. We offer all residents of the UK access to our No Win No Fee claims service.

Under this agreement, we don’t ask you to pay a single penny to begin your claim. No matter if it takes months or even years to make your claim, we won’t ask for any fees. If, however unlikely we believe it to be, we actually fail to make a successful claim on your behalf, then you pay us a big fat zero.

However, if we do win your claim for you, and you receive a compensation payment, we would then expect you to pay our fees. This makes our bladder injury claims service an entirely risk-free way to make a claim, you really cannot lose out by using it.

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