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When making a personal injury claim, you may be unsure of what level of compensation you may receive. As explained here, the Personal Injuries Board uses the Personal Injury Guidelines as a general guide to the amounts that may be awarded. This guide was produced in 2021 and serves as a reference. It is important to note that this is not a rigid format; the awards given regarding personal injury are always assessed on an individual basis.
The severity of the injury is considered, including how it will affect your life now and in the future. Categories include:
When awarding a personal injury claim the Injuries Board will consider the effect your injury has had on your life.
All InjuriesBoard.ie awards have a duty to be in line with Court awards. When we advise declining an award, it is based on 25 years of experience assessing the value of claims to achieve a more favorable outcome for our clients.
If you have suffered a personal injury which is not your fault you may be entitled to begin a claim today. Our expert team at Gary Matthews Solicitors can deal with all aspects of your claim and achieve the best possible outcome for you.
Considering the effect of multiple injuries
The Personal Injury Guidelines make it clear that if you’ve suffered multiple injuries, you cannot simply add up the respective values for each category. Instead you must identify the most significant injury sustained and use that to determine the value range which you fall into. The additional injuries you have sustained may result in a minor adjustment within the value range of your most significant injury.
Will my assessment show how the Personal Injury Guidelines were used to calculate the amount for pain and suffering?
Regrettably, the answer is no. If you’ve read this far you’ll have determined that it is quite easy to see how different people given the Personal Injury Guidelines could come up with wildly different figures if presented with the same set of facts.
This means that it would be of significant assistance to claimants when deciding on whether or not to accept an assessment to see the rationale which was relied upon to arrive at the compensation figure which has been ascribed to their pain and suffering.
However, the assessment will simply have one figure assigned to “general damages for pain and suffering” meaning that you will have no idea which category of injury the PIAB assessor deemed to be most significant or how they varied the amount of your assessment to take account of any secondary injuries which you may have sustained.
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