What Kind of Amputation Compensation Can I Claim?
Amputation is a permanent, long-term condition, and can cause other health issues, so it’s important to seek compensation if you feel you should be reimbursed for a work injury.
It’s important to begin your amputation claim as soon as possible in order to minimise financial loss and expedite a return to your normal (albeit adjusted) existence as much as you can.
- Medical expenses
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of income
- Rehabilitation expenses
- Loss of enjoyment of life
How We Can Help
At Littles, our expert team of amputation injury lawyers work to provide tailored advice for your unique situation.
We can assist you by:
- Gathering evidence to make an amputation injury claim
- Providing advice on the amputation injury claim process
- Explaining police reports or insurance terms
- Contacting the necessary insurance companies
- Ensuring you receive adequate compensation for an amputation injury at work to cover all financial costs incurred as a result of your injury as well as pain and suffering, past and future wage loss, and any other compensation owed as a result of your accident
- Challenging the insurer's decision of disputing payment for medical treatment
- Arranging medico-legal assessments to assess your level of permanent impairment
Amputation claims can take time to process, and you may only have a short window of time to make your claim. Therefore, to access funding, it’s critical that you start the claims process as soon as you can. This allows amputees and their families to start focusing on recovery.
Littles has expert work injury lawyers situated all over Australia to assist you. Contact us today to start the process.
You’ve probably seen a lot of lawyers use the term ‘No Win, No Fee’. Long story short: you only pay us when you achieve a successful outcome. So if you don’t get paid, we don’t get paid.
Let’s break it down.
- We start by reviewing your claim in detail and give you a clear assessment of your prospects for success. We’re experts in compensation law, so we can give you an accurate assessment of your claim.
- Once we’ve established that you should pursue your claim, you can tell us if you want us to proceed as your legal representatives. To formally appoint us as your legal representative, you will enter into a ‘Conditional Costs Agreement’ with us. This is a legal contract that sets out the likely costs of running your claim based on our fees, as well as the rights and responsibilities of you as the client and us as your legal representatives.
- We’ll explain it clearly and thoroughly, with as little legal speak as possible – we promise you’ll understand it completely.
- Importantly, this agreement will set out the ‘No Win, No Fee’ arrangement in black and white. This specifies that you will not pay us anything if your claim is not successful. Our ‘No Win, No Fee’ agreement also covers you for disbursements, or outlays. These are expenses that we may need to pay to progress your claim, including medical reports, expert witness fees and barristers’ fees.
- In certain circumstances, you may be required to pay the other party’s legal costs if you are unsuccessful.
- Remember, your success rests on you providing us with an honest, comprehensive account of all matters relevant to your claim.
Yes! At Littles, we have lawyers for everyone. Like Australia, we are diverse and proud of it. We believe that everyone deserves high-quality legal representation.
We offer our services in more than sixteen different languages, including:
- Korean
- Japanese
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- Vietnamese
- French
- Czech
- Slovak
- Indonesian
- Farsi
- Nepali
- Filipino
- Sinhala
- Arabic
Yes, we offer our services Australia-wide, ensuring access to expert legal advice no matter where you’re located.
Absolutely. We pride ourselves on providing full transparency regarding costs, with fixed rates available for some types of claims.
