Greenstick Fracture Compensation Calculator

Have you experienced a greenstick fracture? Was the accident that caused your injuries a result of third-party negligence? Our greenstick fracture compensation calculator can help you by providing a reliable compensation estimate of what you could receive from a successful claim.

This guide will answer questions like:

How can I make a greenstick fracture claim?
How do I claim for accidents in a public place?
Can I claim for both a simple fracture and multiple fractures?
How is a compound fracture different from a comminuted fracture?
What are the symptoms of a greenstick fracture?
What is the kind of things I can claim while making a personal injury claim?
How can your panel of No Win No Fee solicitors help me?

Calculate Damages For Greenstick Fractures

Our advisors are available 24/7 and offer free legal advice, so if you have any questions or simply want to know if you’re eligible to claim, call us at a time that suits you. You can contact us on 0800 408 7826.

Alternatively, please read on if you’d like to know more about how our compensation payout calculator could help you.

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A Guide About Greenstick Fracture Compensation Calculators
What Is A Greenstick Fracture?
What Damages Does Compensation Account For?
Fracture Injury Causes
Rates Of Accidents In Public Places
How Is The Cost Of Care Calculated?
How To Check What You Could Be Owed With A Greenstick Fracture Compensation Calculator
What Amount Of Compensation Could Be Paid Out For A Fracture Injury?
Greenstick Fracture Compensation Calculator
No Win No Fee Damages Claim For A Greenstick Fracture
Getting Advice About Your Case
Ask For Help Calculating Your Settlement
Articles On Similar Topics
Fracture Claim FAQs

A Guide About Greenstick Fracture Compensation Calculators

Like any fracture injury, a greenstick fracture can negatively impact your quality of life. You could, for instance, be unable to work until the injury has healed. The injury may also cause you some pain or discomfort that you would not have otherwise experienced.

With this in mind, you may want to see if you can claim greenstick fracture compensation for the injury. If it was caused by the negligence of someone who had a duty of care towards you, you might be able to make a successful claim.

Our personal injury calculator can help by providing you with a reliable compensation estimate. All you need to provide is:

The type of injury you’ve suffered.
How the injury was caused.
The value of financial losses, if any, suffered due to the injury.

It can provide you with a compensation estimate in minutes. If you prefer, you can speak to one of our advisors for free legal advice using the phone number at the top of this page. They can give you a quotation over the phone for the pain and suffering caused by the injury as well as the financial losses you may have suffered.

What Is A Greenstick Fracture?

A greenstick fracture can also be referred to as a buckle or torus fracture. The injury is more common in children because it involves a break or fracture in the bone that doesn’t extend all the way through the bone. Instead, due to the young bone being flexible, a small crack or break occurs on one side of it.

According to NHS guidance, greenstick fracture symptoms include:

Immediate pain or numbness
Swelling or bruising
Difficulty moving the hand or wrist

An X-ray will be performed upon visiting the hospital to confirm the injury. If it is a greenstick fracture, a removable splint or cast will usually be applied to the arm. This is so the bone can remain in place while it heals.

The NHS states that, for a child, the arm should have healed within three weeks. However, you should always confirm the recovery timescale with a medical expert as it may take longer.

This fracture injury is usually not as severe as other arm injuries you could experience. These include:

A compound fracture – this is an open fracture where the bone breaks through the skin.
A comminuted fracture – this is an injury where the bone is broken into more than two pieces. This might need surgery in order to heal.

If you’ve suffered any kind of arm injury, our greenstick fracture compensation calculator could help you work out the potential compensation you could receive. The next section will provide more insight regarding what you may be able to claim.

What Damages Does Compensation Account For?

With any type of fracture or injury, there are two potential heads of claim that could be awarded in a personal injury claim. General damages relate to the physical and psychological pain caused by the injury, as well as the general decline in your quality of life. Meanwhile, special damages relate to the financial losses suffered due to the injury. As such, you could potentially claim things like:

Loss of earnings
Loss of future earnings
Travel costs
Recreational activities that you’re no longer able to attend.

Just because you receive general damages compensation doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll receive special damages compensation. Both are calculated independently of one another based on the evidence provided.

For a breakdown of the amount you could receive from a successful greenstick fracture claim, use our compensation payout calculator today. Otherwise, read on to find out how this kind of fracture could occur.

Fracture Injury Causes

Making a successful personal injury claim revolves around proving that third party negligence caused your injury. Whether you’ve suffered a simple fracture or multiple fractures, you could claim if you can prove that your injuries were caused by the negligence who owed you a duty of care.

From a legal perspective, negligence is where a third party breaches their duty of care. These are rules that certain parties are obliged to follow as part of their responsibilities.

If you’ve suffered an injury due to them not fulfilling their duty of care, you could claim compensation for the injuries you have sustained. Examples of incidents where you are owed a duty of care include:

Road traffic accidents
Accidents at work
Accidents in a public place

This section will highlight scenarios in which you might be able to claim successfully. If you have any questions about your own claim, get in touch with our team today.

Collisions In Vehicles

The Highway Code establishes every road user’s duty of care in the UK. These rules outline the appropriate and required conduct while using the road to ensure your own safety and the safety of others.

If you’ve suffered an injury from a car accident due to another road user’s negligence, you may be able to claim compensation. Examples of negligence might include:

Your car colliding with another due to the other driver going through a red light. This could lead to you suffering multiple injuries, such as a broken thumb and a broken back.
A motorcyclist and their vehicle crashing into your car due to them turning onto the roundabout at the wrong time. This could lead to you seeking greenstick fracture compensation due to the pain and suffering caused.
Another driver not indicating as they turn into your motorway lane. This could cause a multi-car pile-up and lead to you wanting to use our greenstick fracture compensation calculator to see how much you could receive.

If your injuries from a road traffic accident are worth less than £5,000, you will need to claim through a different method. The Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021 explains this. However, before doing this, you can call our advisors for free legal advice, as your injuries may be worth more than you think.

Our team can provide you with a free settlement estimate with no obligations whatsoever. Our estimates are reliable, so they may go against what you’ve previously been told.

Workplace Accidents And Injuries

Your employer also has a duty of care to every employee. This is outlined in The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Your employer is expected to take all reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm to their workers.

This can be done through things like health and safety checks, frequent evaluations of working conditions and providing a channel or method for worker feedback. This means that if there is an issue, it can be amended within a reasonable timescale. If you’ve sustained a work injury caused by your employer breaching their duty of care, you may be owed compensation.

Examples of accidents at work that could result in a successful claim include:

Being given faulty work equipment, such as a broken ladder. This could lead to you falling off it and suffering multiple fractures, like a broken leg and a rib fracture.
Being asked to move an object that is too heavy. This could cause you to slip and injure your arm, resulting in needing a personal injury calculator.
Tripping over exposed wiring. This could cause you to attempt to break your fall with your hand, resulting in a broken wrist.

Manual Handling, Machinery And Equipment Accidents

Manual handling jobs can lead to injuries due to their physical nature. Reasonable requirements from your employer for these kinds of roles include providing sufficient work equipment and reliable safety measures.

Examples of negligence in this regard include:

Faulty machinery, where a part from a poorly-maintained piece of equipment flies off and hits you.
Insufficient training. Lifting an object incorrectly could result in you seriously injuring yourself. If you slip and fall, you could suffer injuries such as a fractured pelvis.
Good housekeeping not being maintained. You could, for instance, suffer an arm injury due to slipping on debris that has not been cleared.

Public Place Accidents

People in control of public places have a duty of care to members of the public. They need to take reasonable steps to ensure the public is safe when using the place they control.

The Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 outlines their duty of care in more detail. If you’ve injured yourself in a public place and was due to the person in control of the space (known as the “occupier”) breaching their duty of care, you may be able to claim.

Examples of negligence in this regard could include:

A malfunctioning automatic door in a shopping centre slamming into your arm.
A tray falling onto your arm due to a waiter slipping in a restaurant. This could cause a fracture injury, causing you to use a greenstick fracture compensation calculator.
Falling off a balcony due to a faulty railing.

Tripping Or Slipping Over

Slips, trips and falls can also cause serious injuries, resulting in a decline in your quality of life. You could experience this type of injury in a public place due to negligence on behalf of the occupier. You would need to prove that their negligence resulted in your injury for the claim to be potentially successful.

Examples of this negligence include:

Falling down the stairs due to a faulty handrail.
Slipping due to a wet floor with no warning signs present.
Tripping on a mop as it was left on the floor. Despite trying to avoid it, you could fall and cause multiple fractures due to landing awkwardly on the ground.

Rates Of Accidents In Public Places

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The Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) is a section of the Department for Work and Pensions. They operate in the UK and recover social security benefits in certain compensation cases. These figures are concerning the number of new cases registered relating to people requesting benefits from being injured in a public place.

As you can see, there were 96,067 new cases registered with the CRU from 2017 to 2018 alone. From 2020 to 2021, there were 51,286 and, across the four-year period shown above, over 300,000 new cases were registered.

While this, of course, doesn’t reflect the number of claims made overall, it does give an idea of how frequently these accidents occur. If you’d like a compensation estimate, please use our greenstick fracture compensation calculator today. If you prefer, call a member of our team for free legal advice to see how much you could receive.

How Is The Cost Of Care Calculated?

Special damages relate to the financial losses you’ve suffered due to the injury. Part of claiming special damages could involve claiming care costs.

Care costs don’t just involve the potential costs caused by the immediate aftermath of the injury. They can also relate to any ongoing medical issues caused and the practical implications and costs of accomodating for that. You will need to show evidence of the losses. Examples of what you could claim include:

Prescriptions/medicine
Private physiotherapy classes
The value of gracious care. This will be, for instance, if a loved one has to miss work because they need to help you with daily tasks.

How To Check What You Could Be Owed With A Greenstick Fracture Compensation Calculator

Our personal injury calculator can assess the core aspects of your injury to provide you with a reliable estimate of what you could receive. General damages relate to the pain and suffering caused by the injury and can be a large part of your potential compensation. This doesn’t just accommodate for physical damage done by the injury, but also psychological issues. Two other compensation factors include whether there are any permanent issues and the length of recovery time required.

Work done by the Judicial College has led to us providing you with a very reliable compensation payout calculator. They have analysed previous general damages payouts and compared them to the type of injury caused and the level of severity. As such, they have guideline compensation brackets for many different types of injuries you may have suffered. We use this information to make our calculator as accurate as possible.

What Amount Of Compensation Could Be Paid Out For A Fracture Injury?

In order to work out how much you will be entitled to in general damages, you will usually be invited to a medical assessment with an independent expert.

In order to value your claim, they will assess your injuries and compile their findings, as well as their prognosis, in a report. This report will be used alongside the Judicial College Guidelines to help value your claim.

Compensation for general damages could be supplemented by compensation for special damages. If you’ve suffered extensive financial losses and can provide financial evidence showing this, it could greatly increase the amount of compensation you could receive. Without proof of your losses, you may find it difficult to claim these costs back. Evidence you would need includes:

Bank statements
Receipts
Invoices

Our compensation payout calculator is quick, simple and easy to use. In a few clicks, you could have a reliable compensation estimate. It even provides a breakdown of this estimate to better understand how much your injury is worth.

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

Area of Injury	Amount of Compensation	Description
Arm	£90,250 to £122,860	Injuries in this bracket don’t involve amputation but are still very serious and leave the person only slightly better off than having the arm lost entirely.
Arm	£36,770 to £56,180	This bracket includes significant fractures of one or both forearms where there is serious residual disability whether it be cosmetic or functional.
Arm	£18,020 to £36,770	Significant disabilities would be caused by this injury. However, a large amount of recovery would also have taken place or be expected.
Arm	£6,190 to £18,020	Forearm fractures that are simple, with no further complications.
Elbow	£36,770 to £51,460	An incredibly disabling injury.
Elbow	Up to £11,820	Injuries in this bracket comprise of simple fractures, lacerations and tennis elbow syndrome.
Wrist	£11,820 to £22,990	Injuries that cause some form of permanent disability. Symptoms can include, for example, persisting stiffness and pain.
Wrist	Rarely exceed £9,620	This bracket includes injuries that take longer to recover from, but where a full recovery is made.
Wrist	In the region of £6,970	A simple and uncomplicated Colles' fracture.
Hand	£5,260 to £12,460	Injuries in this bracket include penetrating wounds, crush injuries and deep lacerations.

We completely understand if you’d like an estimate relating to your specific injury. We’re able to provide this; please get in touch.

Our advisors offer free legal advice and have years of personal injury law experience, so they can provide you with a greenstick fracture compensation estimate in just a few minutes. Call them today to see how much you could receive!

No Win No Fee Damages Claim For A Greenstick Fracture

You may be wondering what “No Win No Fee” means. A No Win No Fee agreement is a contract between you and your solicitor that sets out the terms they need to meet before being paid.

It means that:

Your personal injury solicitor will not request legal fees either upfront or during the claims process.
Your personal injury solicitor will also not request legal fees if your claim is unsuccessful.
They will take a small, legally capped portion of your compensation as payment once your claim is successful. #

If you would like to know more about the benefits of No Win No Fee agreements, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our team today. You could be connected with a solicitor from our panel.

Getting Advice About Your Case

Our personal injury calculator can give you a reliable estimate of what you could receive from a personal injury claim. If you prefer, you can get a free quotation by calling one of our advisors at a time that suits you. Our panel of No Win No Fee solicitors could lead to you receiving thousands of pounds in compensation.

You can:

Call us now on 0800 408 7826
Write to us through our Live Chat service, which you can see on the right-hand side of your screen.
Contact us via our website.

Ask For Help Calculating Your Settlement

If you want a breakdown of your potential compensation but don’t want to use our personal injury calculator, we can help. Our team can also offer guidance about how to use the calculator if you’re having difficulty doing so.

Our advisors offer free legal advice over the phone 24/7 so, if you want to know if you’re eligible to claim or want to know what you could receive, call them at a time that suits you.

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For more useful information, use the links below.

Have you suffered a broken arm? Visit the NHS website for more information about symptoms and treatment.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provides information about work-related injuries. To know more about preventing slips and trips in the workplace, visit this link.

The Department for Transport provides road traffic accident statistics for Great Britain.

For more information about claiming for a broken arm, click here.

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Fracture Claim FAQs

For answers to frequently asked questions about making a greenstick fracture claim, view below.

Can you still claim for a minor injury?

You can potentially claim for any kind of injury. In order to do so, you would need to show that the injury affected your quality of life. You will also need to show that it was caused by the negligence of someone who owed you a duty of care.

I suffered complications because of my injury; what could I claim?

If you’ve suffered an injury, you can also potentially claim for any complications caused due to it. For instance, you may have sustained an injury that exacerbated a condition you were already suffering from.

Am I eligible to make a claim?

If third-party negligence caused your injury, you may be able to claim. To find out more, either give us a call or use our greenstick fracture compensation calculator today.

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