How To Make A Knee Injury Claim In The UK

Knee injury claims seek to compensate you for harm caused by a third party’s negligent actions at work, in public, on the road, or while seeking medical treatment. Knee injury compensation can help with compensating you for your physical and mental suffering, but also for your medication treatment, lost earnings, and even repaying those around you for the time they’ve taken to care for you.

We understand that knee injuries are painful and can have a significant impact on your day-to-day life, affecting mobility and your ability to work or participate in hobbies. This is why our expert panel of solicitors are dedicated to helping you in any way they can. Contact us for free today for a confidential, no-obligation chat about your knee injury. We are here to offer advice and support, and we can also confirm whether you’re eligible for compensation.

While there are absolutely no obligations to proceed with our services, we can connect you with our panel of personal injury solicitors who can help guide you through the knee injury claims process from start to finish on a No Win No Fee basis.

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1. Can I Claim Compensation For a Knee Injury?
2. Common Accidents In Knee Injury Claims
3. What Are Some Knee Injuries That Could Be Sustained?
4. Knee Injury Compensation Amounts
5. How Can I Prove Fault For An Injured Knee?
6. How Long After A Knee Injury Do I Have To Bring A Claim?
7. Why Claim For Knee Injury Compensation With UK Law?
8. Knee Injury Claims On A No Win No Fee Basis
9. Learn More

Can I Claim Compensation For a Knee Injury?

Yes, you can claim compensation for a knee injury if it was caused by someone else’s negligent actions.

To be eligible to begin the knee injury claims process, the following key criteria must be met:

1. You were owed a duty of care – another person or organisation must have owed you a legal duty of care. This means that they had an obligation to take steps to protect your health and safety where the accident occurred. 
2. That duty of care was breached – the person or organisation breached their duty of care. This means that they failed to act as a reasonable person/organisation would have done, such as by failing to fix hazards, ignoring safety rules, or making avoidable mistakes. 
3. You suffered an injury – you were injured as a direct result of this breach of duty of care. This can range from minor knee injuries to more severe and permanent injuries, provided they are medically recognised. 

If you believe that you meet the above knee injury claims eligibility criteria, please feel free to have a quick chat to us today about how you can claim compensation. 

Common Accidents In Knee Injury Claims

Common causes of knee injury claims include severe car crashes, failure to provide relevant workplace training, defective equipment, and failure to perform the required medical checks. Below, we explore these and other examples in more depth, including the duty of care you are owed in each situation.

Road Traffic Accidents

When you’re on the road, all road users owe a duty of care to one another to use the roads safely.

Some examples of how a road user can cause a knee injury and be negligent (as per the Road Traffic Act 1988 and The Highway Code) include:

• A driver was exceeding the speed limit and could not brake in time when the traffic ahead of them came to a standstill, which led to a rear-end collision, and the driver in the vehicle in front suffered a knee injury as well as whiplash. 
• A van driver failed to check their mirrors before switching lanes on the motorway, causing a side-by-side collision with the driver in the adjacent lane. The high-speed collision caused the driver who was hit to suffer multiple broken bones, including in their knee. 

Workplace Accidents

When you’re at work, your employer owes you a duty of care to take reasonable steps to ensure your workplace safety. 

Some examples of how an employer can cause a knee injury due to being negligent (as per the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974) include:

• An employer failed to provide manual handling training to an employee before asking them to lift heavy boxes of stock. Subsequently, the employee used an incorrect lifting technique, resulting in back and knee injuries. 
• An employer failed to conduct any recent maintenance checks on the workplace’s equipment, which led to the employer giving an employee a broken ladder on a construction site. The employee fell from the ladder and suffered a knee and head injury as they landed. 

Public Place Accidents

When in public spaces, such as parks or gyms, the occupier of that place (the party in control) owes you a duty of care to ensure your reasonable safety on the premises. 

Some examples of how an occupier can cause a knee injury due to being negligent (as per the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957) include:

• Despite multiple public reports of a broken paving slab, the local council failed to respond to or fix the issue within a reasonable timeframe. A member of the public ended up tripping and falling over the broken paving slab, which caused a knee fracture. 
• A supermarket failed to display a wet floor sign to warn the public of a spill, which led to someone slipping and falling, sustaining a knee dislocation.

Medical Negligence

When seeking medical care, all medical professionals treating you owe you a duty of care to ensure that you receive the correct, expected standard of care.

Some examples of how a medical professional can cause avoidable harm due to being negligent include:

• An implant wasn’t sterilised before a knee replacement surgery, which led to an infection in the knee and the need for corrective surgery. Infections can also potentially lead to sepsis, which is a life-threatening condition. 
• A surgeon failed to check a patient’s medical records, leading to the wrong-site surgery where the other knee was operated on instead. This led to the need for corrective surgery, physical pain, and severe psychological trauma. 

If you believe that someone else is to blame for your knee injury, please contact us today to confirm your compensation claim eligibility. One of the specialist personal injury solicitors from our panel can help you through the entire knee injury claims process.

What Are Some Knee Injuries That Could Be Sustained?

Knee injuries can affect the ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and bones in and around the joint. They range from minor sprains and inflammation to severe fractures and dislocations. 

Specific knee injuries include:

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries.
• Collateral Ligament (MCL) injuries.
• Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) injuries. 
• Meniscus tears. 
• Tendon tears. 
• Fractures. 
• Dislocations.  

No matter the type of knee injury you have suffered, you could be entitled to knee injury compensation. Contact us today to find out. 

Knee Injury Compensation Amounts

Knee injury compensation amounts can vary widely, ranging from a few thousand pounds to up to £117,410 for severe damage. This is in line with the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG), which is a document containing guideline compensation brackets for a wide variety of injuries. Legal professionals can use this document when valuing your injury.

Knee injury compensation is typically split into:

• General damages – compensating for the knee injury’s physical and mental impacts. 
• Special damages – reimbursing the financial losses resulting from the knee injury. 

Factors that are considered under general damages include:

• How severe the physical pain is.
• How has the quality of life gotten worse?
• Whether there are any permanent impacts on mobility.

Guideline Compensation Brackets For Knee Injuries

The table below lists JCG’s guideline compensation brackets for different types of knee injuries. While this table can help you see how much can potentially be awarded in a knee injury compensation claim, none of these figures can be guaranteed. 

Please note that the top figure is not from the JCG. 

Injury	Severity & Notes	Compensation
Multiple serious injuries plus special damages	Serious - special damages for financial losses such as lost wages, medical expenses and care costs.	Up to £250,000+
Knee	Severe (a)(i) - gross ligament damage, disruption to the joint, or the development of osteoarthritis that leads to lengthy treatment, loss of function, and considerable pain.	£85,100 to £117,410
	Severe (a)(ii) - a leg fracture extending to the joint in the knee, causing permanent limited movement and constant pain.	£63,610 to £85,100
	Severe (a)(iii) - less severe injuries where there are continuing symptoms such as discomfort and pain.	£31,960 to £53,030
	Moderate (b)(i) - torn cartilages or dislocations that lead to minor instability, weakness, or other mild future disability.	£18,110 to £31,960
	Moderate (b)(ii) - less serious injuries that last shorter periods, such as laceration or bruising injuries.	Up to £16,770
Leg	Severe(ii)Very Serious - Permanent mobility issues with the person requiring mobility aides for the remainder of their life.	£66,920 to £109,290
	Severe(iii)Serious - Serious injuries to the joints or compound/comminuted fractures resulting in instability.	£47,840 to £66,920
	Severe(iv)Moderate - Severe crushing injuries or multiple fractures, generally to one limb.	£33,880 to £47,840

Special Damages In Knee Injury Claims

Special damages can form a significant part of knee injury compensation; they reimburse all past and future financial losses resulting from the injury. 

You can be reimbursed for:

• Lost earnings if you’re missing work while you recover. 
• Future lost earnings if you cannot return to work at all. This covers missed pension contributions and opportunities for bonuses/pay rises. 
• Medicine costs, like over-the-counter painkillers. 
• Private medical care costs. 
• Costs for specialist equipment, like knee braces. 
• Care costs, covering professional, domestic, and gratuitous (the free care that loved ones have given you).

In order to be awarded special damages, you must have invoices, payslips, bank statements, and receipts of your financial losses. 

For more insight into how knee injury claims are valued, please contact us today. Our panel of solicitors can also tell you in more detail how much knee injury compensation you could potentially be entitled to claim. 

How Can I Prove Fault For An Injured Knee?

You can prove fault for an injured knee by collecting strong evidence that demonstrates your injury was caused by the negligent actions of a third party.

Evidence that can prove this could include your medical records, CCTV footage of the accident, and the contact details of any witnesses. If involved in an accident with a driver, you should also collect their contact information, insurance details and vehicle registration.

To learn more about what other evidence you could gather, you can read our dedicated guide on what evidence is needed for a personal injury claim.

You can also contact our advisors to learn about how a solicitor from our panel could help you with gathering evidence to support your claim.

How Long After A Knee Injury Do I Have To Bring A Claim?

After a knee injury, you typically have 3 years to bring a claim for compensation from the date you suffered your injury (as per the Limitation Act 1980).

However, there are exceptions to this time limit for those who are under the age of 18 or lack the mental capacity to claim for themselves. To learn more about these exceptions, and claiming on behalf of a loved one as a litigation friend, you can read our dedicated guide on the time limit to claim after an accident.

You can also contact our advisors to see whether you are still within the time limit to begin your compensation claim.

Why Claim For Knee Injury Compensation With UK Law?

If you want the complicated legal work taken care of on your behalf, an excellent client service, and clear communication all throughout the claims process, then you should claim for knee injury compensation with our panel of solicitors here at UK Law. They have decades of combined experience and can help you do many things, such as:

• Collecting vital evidence to prove third party negligence occurred. 
• Fighting for the highest possible knee injury compensation amount for you. 
• Talking to the negligent third party and their insurer, so you don’t have to. 
• Sorting legal representation if the case is taken to court (don’t worry – court proceedings are highly unlikely in personal injury claims).
• Explaining legal jargon you come across along the way, keeping the claims process as simple as possible. 

Knee injury claims can be difficult to navigate on your own, but you shouldn’t have to face it alone, especially while trying to focus on your recovery at the same time. Let our panel of solicitors take care of your claim. Contact our advisors to learn more.

Knee Injury Claims On A No Win No Fee Basis

Our panel of solicitors can help you through the knee injury claims process on a No Win No Fee basis by working under a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This means that you can receive help from our solicitors:

• Without paying any upfront or ongoing fees for their services. 
• Without paying any service fees at all if the claim is unsuccessful. 

If a claim is successful under a CFA, a small ‘success fee’ will be deducted from the compensation. Success fees are a legally capped, small percentage agreed with you before the claims process starts, ensuring there are no hidden fees. 

Contact UK Law 

Contact us for free today to see whether you’re eligible to begin the knee injury claims process and connect with a specialist No Win No Fee solicitor from our panel:

• Call 020 3870 4868
• Fill out our ‘claim online’ form. 
• Send a message in our on-screen live chat box. 

Learn More

You can learn more about personal injury claims by checking out our similar guides:

• How to obtain your medical reports to use as evidence in a claim.
• More information on what you should do after an accident.
• How to claim for a broken foot.

You might also learn more with these extra resources:

• NHS – seek services near you for medical attention.
• Gov.UK – how to claim Statutory Sick Pay if you are missing work due to an injury.
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – information on how workplaces should manage risks.

If you have sustained a knee injury because a third party has failed to protect your health and safety, please don’t hesitate to contact us today. Our team works around the clock and can answer any further questions you have about knee injury claims.