By Cat Stardew. Last Updated 14th November 2024. Welcome to our eye injury claims guide. Sustaining an injury to the eye, or eyes, can be devastating and dramatically affect the quality of life of the victim. If you have suffered an injury to the eye through an accident or incident that wasn’t your fault, you may be interested to find out more about eye injury claims as you may be eligible to make an eye injury compensation claim yourself.
If you have sustained an injury to one or both of your eyes through no fault of your own, however the accident occurred, you may be entitled to eye injury compensation.
Legal Helpline is a claims management company that has a panel of solicitors with years of experience in eye injury claims. To speak to an advisor for a free consultation, either:
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Jump to a Section
- Eye Injury Claims Guide
- Common types of eye injuries
- Evidence To Support Claims For Eye Injury Settlements
- Claiming compensation for an eye injury at work
- Claiming compensation for an eye injury in a public place
- Starting a claim for an eye injury at work in the UK
- Determining how severe an eye injury is
- Compensation For Eye Injury – How Compensation Is Calculated
- No Win No Fee Eye Injury Claims
- Can Legal Helpline get me compensation?
- Useful links and resources
Eye Injury Claims Guide
Legal Helpline has put together this eye injury compensation guide in order to give an informed overview of the processes involved in eye injury claims.
Within this guide, you will find the answers to questions such as ‘How much can I get for an eye injury?’ or ‘How much is an eye injury worth?’. Also, the guide will explain what to do if you sustain an eye injury, how to start an eye injury claim, what can be included in your claim, and lots more.
We explain how the eye injury is assessed to determine its severity and the effect this result can have on the amount of compensation you could be awarded. Proving liability is key to winning your case and we cover how liability may be established in different cases, all possibly affecting the way the case is conducted and its outcome.
Lastly, we also cover the benefits of using a personal injury claims firm and how our No Win No Fee policy can allow you to have legal help and guidance without risking your finances.
Common types of eye injuries
There are a number of different types of eye injury that can occur, with some injuries being more common than others. The most common eye injuries include:
- Fractures or Breaks – If the eye is hit with a blunt force, the eye socket can suffer a fracture or break.
- Blunt Force Trauma – This is when the eye is injured after being hit with a blunt force. A ‘black eye’ is a typical minor injury of a blunt force trauma. A more severe injury will be a fracture or break as mentioned above.
- Scratches or abrasions – These may occur to the actual eyeball, or to the eye lids resulting in pain and discomfort and often reduced vision until healed.
- Foreign Bodies – Objects entering the eye which cause damage to the eyeball such as grit, sand, dust, wood or metal shavings.
- Needlestick Injuries and Cuts – Where something has pierced into the eyeball or soft tissue around the eye.
- Chemical Burns and Abrasions – Where a chemical has come into contact with the eye. A minor injury may cause irritation and redness, but a more severe injury will involve severe burns to the eyeball and permanent damage.
- Negligence during Laser Surgery – The eyeball may become damaged during laser eye surgery due to the procedure not being carried out properly.
- Ultra Violet Light damage – Exposing the eyeball to too much UV rays, often caused by not protecting the eyes sufficiently whilst using a sunbed.
- Medical Negligence – Being misdiagnosed or mistreated by a medical professional can result in damage occurring to the eye.
If you have suffered a common eye injury like those listed above, or any other eye injury, through no fault of your own, we can help you to make a personal injury claim for eye injury compensation.
Evidence To Support Claims For Eye Injury Settlements
One of the most important steps of the eye injury claims process is collecting evidence. Evidence can help demonstrate the severity of your eye injury, how it happened, and who is liable.
Some examples of evidence that can support claims for eye injury settlements include:
- CCTV footage: If your accident was captured by a CCTV system, you may be able to request the footage. This can then illustrate how your injury occurred.
- Photographs: Taking photographs of the accident scene and any visible symptoms of your eye injury, such as redness, could help support your claim.
- Medical records: Your medical records can demonstrate the severity of your eye injury, and the pain and suffering you have experienced or will experience in the future.
- Witness contact details: Taking the contact details of anyone who witnessed your accident can help ensure that their statements are taken at a later date.
One of the benefits of working with a No Win No Fee solicitor is that they can help you collect evidence, talk to witnesses, and strengthen your claim. To find out if you could be eligible to work with a solicitor from our panel, contact our team today.
Claiming compensation for an eye injury at work
All employers are required by law to provide a safe working environment for their employees in accordance with section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. If they fail to do so, and you sustain an eye injury as a result, they will be found to be in breach of their duty of care to their employees.
How much compensation for an eye injury at work? Further on in the guide, we have put together a table of average compensation amounts awarded for a number of different eye injuries. The amount you are paid for your injury will reflect those in the table regardless of where the injury actually took place. What will make the overall amount different however, is whether the company you work for were in breach of the Health and Safety rules and regulations and guilty of gross negligence.
If you have sustained an eye injury in an accident at work, no matter to how minor or severe, due to no fault of your own whilst at work, contact us at Legal Helpline to find out more about accident at work claims.
Claiming compensation for an eye injury in a public place
Claiming compensation for an accident that occurred in a public place resulting in an eye injury will differ in the way it is processed depending on where or what type of public place the accident occurred in.
For those accidents that happen in public places where the local authority or council have the responsibility to maintain them. These public places include:
- Public parks
- Footpaths
- Children’s play areas
- Accessible institutions
- Libraries
- Public toilets
These types of eye injury claims will be made against the council or local authority.
For accidents that occur in places that are made accessible to the public by private companies such as shops and shopping centres for example, then the compensation claim would be filed against the company. Other examples of company-owned areas accessible to the public include car parks, gyms, swimming pools, supermarkets and restaurants.
Starting a claim for an eye injury at work in the UK
If you have been in an accident that wasn’t your fault and ended up with an eye injury, you may be interested in eye injury claims. If you don’t know where to start Legal Helpline make it simple. All you need to do is give us a call and we can take it from there.
When you call us, you will be offered a free consultancy session where you can freely ask as many questions as you need to in regards to making a claim, and we can use the time to gather the information from you surrounding your case. At this stage, we will give our expert and honest opinion on whether you have a valid claim or not.
If we are satisfied you have a valid case, we will in most circumstances, offer to take on your case for you under a No Win No Fee agreement. We can then set to work on working hard behind the scenes and gathering more evidence in order to build you a strong case. We may also offer you a free local medical if we feel this could be beneficial for your case.
Determining how severe an eye injury is
The potential value of an eye injury compensation claim can be affected by a number of variables. In other words, how much compensation for an eye injury you are awarded may reflect how severe it is, and the impact that it has on your life.
Eye injury claims can be for both minor and more severe injuries. For more severe injuries, they could cause a longer-lasting impact. Some incidents may lead to your sight being permanently affected, possibly even to the point of partial or complete blindness.
Therefore, the level of eye injury compensation that’s awarded to you may very well depend on having the severity of the injury itself verified in an independent medical assessment, and backed up with other evidence.
This assessment can be arranged at a facility local to you so that the need to travel is kept as low as possible. Get in touch today if you have questions about this assessment, why it is needed, and what it may entail.
Compensation For Eye Injury – How Compensation Is Calculated
You may be wondering what compensation for an eye injury you could get if you claim successfully. Every personal injury claim payout is calculated independently, so they all tend to differ. For example, a payout can feature payments covering two elements, known as heads of loss, though only one is guaranteed.
That head is known as general damages. It compensates for your physical harm and mental suffering. Even this can be affected by multiple things, like:
- The severity of the eye injury and whether one or both eyes were affected.
- How the injury will impact you, and for how far in the future it will cause issues.
- The injury’s effect on your personal life. This considers loss of amenity, which is the loss of your ability to take part in activities and hobbies you enjoyed before the accident.
Those working out the eye injury compensation value will have to take all of this into account. They can get some help from the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG). The JCG is a document that collates illustrative compensation figures, arranged into brackets, for different types of injuries.
You can see some eye injury figures below. Even though they’re all from the JCG, with the exception of the top row, they still just act as a guide.
| Reason for Compensation | Guideline Compensation Bracket | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Severe Eye Injuries Plus Financial Loss | Up to £500,000 and above | A payment addressing serious eye damage, but also losses like missed earnings, medical fees or travel costs. |
| Total Blindness and Deafness | In the region of £493,000 | The high compensation amount reflects the absolute devastation of such injuries. |
| Total Blindness | In the region of £327,940 | A complete loss of sight in both eyes. |
| Loss of Sight in One Eye with Reduced Vision in the Remaining Eye (i) | £117,150 to £219,400 | The higher amount will be for those where the prognosis suggests further deterioration of the eye with reduced vision. Problems with double vision may also be present. (i) Serious risk of further deterioration in the remaining eye. |
| Loss of Sight in One Eye with Reduced Vision in the Remaining Eye (ii) | £78,040 to £129,330 | Reduced vision in the remaining eye and or additional problems such as double vision. |
| Total Loss of One Eye | £66,920 to £80,210 | The award amount will depend on factors such as the claimant's age, the psychological impact and the cosmetic effect. |
| Complete Loss of Sight in One Eye | £60,130 to £66,920 | The higher amount takes into consideration any scarring around the eye which may have happened due to the injury. |
| Serious But Incomplete Loss of Vision (One Eye) | £28,900 to £48,040 | The higher amount would be awarded to those with constant double or blurred vision, whereas the lower amounts awarded to those with either intermittent double and blurred vision, or no double or blurred visions at all. |
| Minor But Permanent Impairment | £11,120 to £25,600 | One or both eyes are affected. For example, there is permanent light sensitivity but not to the level that dark glasses are needed constantly. |
Eye Injury Payouts – Examples Of Special Damages
In addition to general damages, eye injury payouts could also include special damages. This head of loss compensates you for financial losses or expenses that you have experienced due to your injury.
Examples of what could be covered under special damages include:
- Loss of earnings if your injury has required you to take time off work.
- The costs of extra childcare if it has been required due to your injury.
- Travel costs you’ve incurred if you’ve had to pay for public transport or taxis to receive medical treatment or other journeys you would normally walk or drive to.
- Medical expenses, such as prescription costs.
You will need to provide proof of these losses, such as receipts, bills or invoices.
Contact our advisors today to discuss your personal injury claim and receive free advice.
No Win No Fee Eye Injury Claims
Many people making eye injury claims would prefer to take legal action with a professional’s help, but are concerned about how much it will cost.
Our panel’s solicitors appreciate this, and offer a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). It’s a type of deal which means you pay nothing at all in solicitor’s fees during the following times:
- Any time before the claim starts.
- Throughout the entire claims process.
- Also, after the claim ends, if you don’t win.
Another benefit of the CFA is that you don’t have to dip into your savings to pay the solicitor if the case wins. Instead, they take a small cut of the compensation awarded as their success fee and send the rest to you.
There’s no need to be concerned that a solicitor will decide to keep the lion’s share for themselves. Because of The Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2013, there is a strict limit on the percentage that a solicitor can take. Besides, our panel’s solicitors make sure their clients are satisfied with the success fee by discussing the matter before the claim starts.
If you’ve got any questions about how a No Win No Fee claim works, simply call us or use our live chat feature now.
Can Legal Helpline Get Me Compensation?
Our panel’s solicitors have been specialising in the personal injury claims industry for years and have lots of experience in successfully handling these types of cases.
The solicitors on our panel of experts are dedicated to getting clients the compensation they deserve. They always treat each individual case with the attention it needs. Although they work quickly and efficiently, solicitors never rush through a claims process as they want to make sure that clients get the best outcome possible.
Instructing a solicitor to conduct eye injury claims allows claimants to fully concentrate on their recovery with the knowledge that a highly professional and experienced personal injury solicitor is working hard to get them the compensation they deserve.
Contact Legal Helpline to start a claim for eye injury compensation
If you would like to discuss eye injury claims in more detail, or would like us to manage your eye injury compensation claim on your behalf, just call us on 0333 000 0729 and we will do our best to assist you.
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Useful links and resources
Injury claims involving children – how to make a compensation claim on behalf of a child.
NHS guide to eye injuries – what to do if you suffer an eye injury.
Litigation Friends – government guidance on how you can claim on someone else’s behalf.
Other Claims We Can Help With
- Road traffic accident claims.
- Head injury claims.
- Car accident claims.
- Holiday accident abroad compensation claims.
- Gym injury claims.
- Ankle Injury claims.
- Cycle accident claims
- Manual handling claims
- Motorcycle accident claims
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- Child Injury Claims Explained
- How To Make Bone Fracture Claims
Thank you for reading our eye injury claims guide.
