Acetabular Fracture Compensation Calculator

Fractures of the pelvis, such as acetabular fractures, can be life-changing and have a very debilitating effect on your quality of life. If you’ve had to experience acetabular fracture treatment due to an accident that was caused by someone else breaching their duty of care towards you, you may be able to claim. Our acetabular fracture compensation calculator will provide you with a reliable estimate of what you could receive from a successful claim.

In this guide, we will answer important questions, such as “how do you fracture your acetabulum?”, “how do you fix a broken acetabular bone?” and “what is the treatment for a pelvic fracture through the NHS?”. We’ll also look at how A No Win No Fee agreement could help you fund your claim and what could be included in your compensation.

Our advisors offer free legal advice 24/7. If you have any questions or queries or want to see if you’re eligible to make a claim, just call them on 0800 408 7826. Alternatively, please read on to find out more about using a compensation payout calculator.

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A Guide About How To Use A Acetabular Fracture Compensation Calculator
What Is An Acetabular Fracture?
What Expenses Could You Settlement Compensate You For?
How Do People Suffer Acetabular Fractures?
Facts And Statistics In Pedestrian Collisions
Could You Claim For The Cost Of Healthcare?
How Acetabular Fracture Calculators Work
What Could Your Acetabular Fracture Payout Be Worth?
Acetabular Fracture Compensation Calculator
No Win No Fee Acetabular Fracture Compensation Payouts
Get Advice About Your Claim
Ask If We Could Help You Use A Compensation Calculator
References
FAQs On Acetabular Fracture Compensation Calculators

A Guide About How To Use A Acetabular Fracture Compensation Calculator

A fractured acetabulum can change your ability to function. Due to the complexity of the hip joint and the reliability we have on it, there is a chance such an injury could cause permanent damage.

This is where our personal injury calculator could help. It can give you a compensation estimate in just a matter of minutes. You just need to provide information on the kind of injury you have sustained, the circumstances of the accident and the value of any loss of earnings that you would like to include in your claim.

However, if you’d prefer, you can call one of our advisors for free legal advice. They’ll be able to discuss the validity of your claim. Call them at a time that works for you using the phone number at the top of this page.

What Is An Acetabular Fracture?

An acetabular fracture is a pelvis injury. This kind of injury can be difficult to deal with because of how important the pelvis is for many of your body’s functions. The pelvis protects your:

Bowel
Bladder
Sexual organs
Nerves and blood vessels going down your legs.

In addition to this, the acetabulum is the “socket” part of the ball-and-socket hip joints. This means that it plays a significant role in your ability to walk and use your legs.

This section will highlight the injury symptoms and answer questions such as “Can an acetabular fracture heal?” and “How do you fix a broken acetabular bone?”

A fractured acetabulum is a break in the cup-sized hollow of the pelvis (often referred to as the pelvic ring) where the femur bone fits to form a ball and socket joint. This is your hip joint. A lot of pressure is put on your hips and pelvis when you walk or sit down, which is why an injury like this can be so debilitating. Potential symptoms of a fractured pelvis include:

Extreme pain
Swelling, deformity and bruising
Further pain when you put weight on it
An inability to move or walk

How can an acetabular fracture be treated?

Acetabular fracture treatment through the NHS usually requires surgery. The aim of surgery is to reposition the fractured parts so that the bone can heal and reform. X-rays and CT scans can be performed to help judge the severity of the injury. Surgeries that may be performed include:

Internal fixation – plates and screws may be used to reattach the fractured bone.
External fixation – a metal plate can be attached to fix the pelvis in place. When the metal plate is outside of the body, this is referred to as external fixation.
Replacing the hip. This is major surgery, so it will usually only be offered if other treatments have been ineffective.

Regarding fractured pelvis recovery time with the NHS, it can depend on the severity of the pelvis injury. Any damage to your hip or pelvis can take a long period of rehabilitation to fully recover from. This will usually involve a number of different healthcare professionals working together to help you recover.

It can take up to a year before you’re able to return to work, depending on the role you perform and the severity of the injury. For more information about recovery timescales, please refer to your doctor.

What Expenses Could You Settlement Compensate You For?

With any kind of injury, including a fractured pelvis, there are two potential heads of claim when making a personal injury claim. General damages relate to the physical and psychological pain and suffering caused by the injury, as well as the general decline in your quality of life.

To determine the value of the general damages head of your claim, you will usually be invited to a medical assessment with an independent expert. They’ll examine your injuries and speak to you about the impact they have had on you. This report will be used with the help of guidelines provided by the Judicial College to value your claims.

Special damages, on the other hand, relate to the financial losses suffered due to the injury. This means you may be able to claim for things like:

Loss of earnings
Loss of future earnings
Travel costs
The cost of prescriptions, medications and the cost of treatment that you couldn’t get on the NHS.

Our acetabular fracture compensation calculator can help illustrate the value of the special damages you may be able to claim. You can also contact our advisors using the phone number at the top of this page for free legal advice.

How Do People Suffer Acetabular Fractures?

The key to making a successful personal injury claim is showing that third-party negligence caused your injury. From a legal perspective, negligence is where a third party had a duty of care to you, and they breached this duty, causing you to be injured.

This section will highlight how a hip fracture could happen as the result of negligence. Furthermore, the scenarios will also answer questions like “How do you fracture your acetabulum?”.

Remember, if you have any questions about anything we touch upon in this guide, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our claims team. One of our advisors will be happy to offer you free legal advice.

High Energy Impact Traumas

Acetabulum fractures can occur as a result of a high-energy impact. These kinds of accidents can occur in a number of different settings, such as at work and while you’re in a public place.

Your employer has a duty of care to ensure the safety of all employees as far as reasonably practicable. An employer’s duty of care is outlined in The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

Examples of negligence that could cause injury in the workplace include:

You’re working on a platform at a height, and the surface is worn down from use, making it slippery. You slip and fall from the platform and break your pelvis as a result.
While working on a construction site, bricks fall on you because the machine carrying them malfunctioned because it hadn’t been serviced in over a year. This accident at work could lead to you needing to treat a pelvis fracture through the NHS.

Controllers of a public place also have a duty of care to any member of the public that uses their facilities. This is detailed in the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957. The person in control of the space (the “occupier”) needs to make sure that members of the public can safely use the space for the intended purpose. Examples of negligence that could cause injury include:

While in a train station, you slip and fall on wiring that is exposed and trailing across a walkway. This could result in you needing to take time off work due to the recovery time for a fractured pelvis.
An escalator in a shopping centre malfunctions, causing you to fall from the top. This could result in multiple injuries, including a broken arm and a broken back. As such, you may want to use our compensation payout calculator.

Car Accidents

Every road user in the UK has a duty of care to one another shown in the Highway Code. It states that all road users need to act in a way that ensures the safety of everyone on the road.

If you’ve been injured in a car accident that was caused by the negligence of a third party, you may be able to successfully claim if another person’s negligence caused it. Examples of this include:

A driver going above the speed limit, meaning that they aren’t able to stop in time. This leads to a vehicle collision that causes a pelvis injury.
Another driver turning into your lane on the motorway without indicating. This could cause a multi-car pile-up, leading to you using a personal injury calculator.
A driver going through a red light and causing a side-on collision as a result. A collision of this nature could cause additional injuries to you, such as a rib fracture.

Other Vehicle Collisions

A car accident isn’t the only kind of road traffic accident that can occur. All road users owe a duty of care to one another, which includes other kinds of vehicles like cyclists and motorcyclists.

Examples of negligence involving other kinds of vehicles include:

A motorcyclist turns onto a roundabout at the wrong moment, leading to a collision with your car. This could lead to you using an acetabular fracture compensation calculator.
A lorry collides with your vehicle because the driver failed to use their mirrors when joining the motorway from a sliproad. This could seriously injure you, resulting in a scar injury.
Suffering an acetabular fracture due to a driver under the influence of drugs swerving into the cycle lane where you’re riding your bike.

Being Struck As A Pedestrian

Since a pelvis injury is usually caused by high energy impacts, you could also suffer one as a pedestrian on the road. If you feel the vehicle driver has been negligent and their negligence caused your accident to happen, you could make a successful personal injury claim.

Examples could include:

A vehicle going over the speed limit hitting you while you’re using a zebra crossing. This could result in you suffering multiple fractures of the pelvis.
A drunk driver loses control of their vehicle, which then swerves onto the pavement and collides with you as a result. This could cause a hip fracture.
While reversing out of a parking space, a driver did not adequately check their rearview mirrors and window. This causes them to collide with you, fracturing your hip.

Facts And Statistics In Pedestrian Collisions

acetabular fracture compensation calculator statistics graph — Pedestrian accident statistics graph

The Department for Transport collects statistics regarding road traffic accidents in Britain. This includes injuries to pedestrians while using the road.

As you can see from the pie chart above, there were 355 fatal pedestrian accidents, 4,259 seriously injured pedestrians and 10,104 slight injuries to pedestrians in 2020.

If you’ve suffered an injury being a pedestrian in a road collision, you may be able to claim compensation. You can use our personal injury calculator to see what you could receive. Alternatively, call our advisors using the phone number at the top of this page for free legal advice.

Could You Claim For The Cost Of Healthcare?

You could potentially claim care costs as part of claiming special damages. Evidence would be needed to validate the losses you’re looking to claim. You can input these figures into our acetabular fracture compensation calculator to better understand the level of compensation you could receive. Examples of what you could potentially claim include:

Adjustments to your home, such as a stairlift, if you need them to cope with your injuries.
Amendments to your car to, for example, make it wheelchair-accessible.
The cost of a nurse to look after you as you recover.

How Acetabular Fracture Calculators Work

Our compensation payout calculator can provide you with a reliable breakdown of the amount of compensation you could receive. It looks at the kind of accident you experienced, the injuries you sustained and any loss of earnings you have experienced as a result.

Our calculator is reliable partly due to the Judicial College. They analyse previous payments based on the type of injury and its severity. Because of this, they’ve been able to create accurate compensation brackets for a range of injury types. We use these brackets to provide you with as much information as possible regarding what you could receive.

What Could Your Acetabular Fracture Payout Be Worth?

The value of the general damages head of your claim will be calculated with the help of an assessment with an independent medical expert. During this appointment, they will examine your injuries and speak with you about the way you have been affected. The report from this meeting will be referred to alongside the guidelines from the Judicial College to help value your claim.

Special damages are worked out separately, although you cannot be awarded special damages if you are not eligible to claim general damages. Evidence is required to prove the losses you’re claiming for.

If you cannot provide evidence, you may find it difficult to claim back the full value of the special damages associated with your claim. Examples of evidence you could use includes:

Receipts
Invoices
Bank statements

Our acetabular fracture compensation calculator is a quick and easy way of assessing the compensation you could be owed. In just a few clicks, it can give you a reliable estimate of your potential compensation.

Below is a list of injuries and their respective compensation brackets for general damages. The Judicial College provides these figures.

Area of Injury	Amount of Compensation	Description
Pelvis and Hips	£73,580 to £122,860	Severe (i) extensive pelvic fractures. Where there are residual disabilities of a substantial nature.
Pelvis and Hips	£58,100 to £73,580	Severe (ii) injuries that are only a little less severe than in the category above. Certain features will lift them above a lower bracket.
Pelvis and Hips	£36,770 to £49,270	Where a fracture to the pelvis causes instability of the leg and degenerative changes.
Pelvis and Hips	£11,820 to £24,950	Cases in this bracket include injuries that require things like hip replacements.
Leg	£36,790 to £51,460	Severe (iii) leg injuries that include compound or complex fractures.
Leg	£26,050 to £36,790	Crushing injuries or multiple fractures to a single leg might be included in this bracket.
Leg	£16,860 to £26,050	Where a fracture has led to the recovery being incomplete
Leg	Up to £11,110	Simple fractures to fibula or tibia with no further complications.
Knee	£48,920 to £65,440	Where a leg fracture extends to the knee joint and causes constant pain and limitation of movement.
Knee	£24,580 to £40,770	Less severe injuries to the bracket above. Can still cause significant and continuing pain, instability and potential deformity.

Our team can give you a more accurate estimation of your claim if you would like. All you need to do is give our team a call. One of our friendly team of advisors could take the details of your accident and subsequent injuries. From this, they could accurately value your claim.

No Win No Fee Acetabular Fracture Compensation Payouts

Our panel of solicitors work on a No Win No Fee basis. You may have heard this phrase before, but what exactly does this mean?

A No Win No Fee agreement means that:

You won’t have to pay any legal fees to your personal injury solicitor, either upfront or during the claims process.
Instead, they will take a legally capped portion of your compensation as payment once your claim has been successful.
Your personal injury solicitor won’t request legal fees if your claim is unsuccessful.

All the solicitors on our panel offer representation on a No Win No Fee basis. If you feel that this kind of agreement could be beneficial to you, why not speak to a member of our team today? If your claim has a good chance of success, you could be connected with a No Win No Fee solicitor from our panel.

Get Advice About Your Claim

Our personal injury calculator can help give you an accurate compensation estimate. You can also get free legal advice from our advisors 24/7, so you can call them at a time that works for you. A No Win No Fee solicitor from our panel could offer you legal representation if your claim is valid.

To get in touch, you can:

Call us now using 0800 408 7826
Write to us using the Live Chat window on the right-hand side of the screen.
Contact us via our website.

Ask If We Could Help You Use A Compensation Calculator

You may not want to use our online personal injury calculator and instead would prefer to speak to someone directly. If this is the case, all you need to do is speak to our team using one of the above methods.

Our advisors can also help if you’re having trouble using the calculator. They can guide you through the process online or value your claim themselves.

References

For more useful information, use the links below.

The NHS provides more information about hip fractures which you can find here.

The Department for Transport provides more road traffic accident statistics here.

Do you want to know more about safety regulations regarding working at a height? If so, visit the HSE website.

If you’ve broken your leg and want to see if you can claim, visit our website.

Have you broken your foot? If so, see if you can claim by clicking here.

A broken ankle can be a very debilitating injury. Click here to see if you can claim.

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FAQs On Acetabular Fracture Compensation Calculators

For answers to frequently asked questions about fractures of the pelvis, see below.

What questions will a personal injury solicitor ask me?

They will ask for details regarding your injury to help evaluate the chances of your claim being successful. This includes things like the nature of the injury and how it occurred.

What parts of my medical history will the solicitor need to see?

Your personal injury solicitor will need any medical history details that could be relevant to your claim. You can choose not to disclose this; however, it might affect the strength of your claim.

Do I need medical evidence to support my claim?

You will need medical evidence to determine how severe your injuries are and to confirm that they were caused by your accident. An independent medical assessment will be performed as part of the claims process.

What other evidence will I need?

You will need financial evidence to claim special damages, such as receipts, invoices, and bank statements. To see how much you could receive, use our acetabular fracture compensation calculator today.

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