What Type Of Eye Injuries Are There?

An injury to the eye can be caused by the area being hit and injured by an object, but can also include burns, cuts, scratches, impact, foreign bodies and irritation from liquids or smoke.

What Are The Common Causes Of Eye Injuries?

Small objects travelling at a high speed are one of the most likely ways of suffering a serious eye injury. Examples of these objects include glass or other materials propelled at the eye during a road traffic accident. Eye injuries can also occur following accidents in the workplace. To prevent them, protective goggles must be worn in any work situations which could involve a risk of eye injury If you work in conditions that could lead to an eye injury you, and those employees around you, should always be trained on how to protect your eyes at work. If you suffered an eye injury due to not being trained on how to protect your eyes in potentially hazardous workplace situations you could be eligible to make an accident at work claim.

What Should I Do If I Have Suffered An Eye Injury?

If you have suffered an eye injury following an accident that wasn’t your fault, you should contact a personal injury solicitor with experience in this area. They will assess the potential of success for your claim and provide an estimate of the potential compensation available to you. This area of the law can potentially be extremely complicated so the legal team representing you must be experienced in all the intricacies of the law.

How Much Compensation For Eye Injury?

The compensation you can claim for an eye injury will be broken down into the following:

• Pain and suffering. Personal Injury General Damages refers to the pain, suffering and loss of amenity that a person has experienced through no fault of their own. Pain and suffering equate to physical and psychiatric symptoms, while loss of amenity takes into account how an injury has affected an individual’s lifestyle.
• Financial losses. The main kinds of special damages which make up personal injury claims are:
• Loss of income; if you have lost your job as a result of your accident or if you have been unable to work for a period of time without being paid then you could be entitled to this
  • Loss of pension contributions are granted in some cases where you have lost your job because of your accident or injury
  • The cost of being looked after if your injury has left you needing care
  • The expense of needing a wheelchair for the rest of your life in cases where a claimant has become disabled.

The amount of compensation awarded for pain and suffering depends on the exact nature of your eye problem, how much pain it causes you, how long the symptoms last and how it affects your ability to enjoy your life. Your solicitor will investigate previous case law similar to your accident to assess how much compensation could potentially be awarded.

Eye Injury Compensation Guide

Below is a guide to the potential levels of personal injury compensation (pain and suffering) awarded for an eye injury.