Back injury claims in England are for back injuries people get in the workplace, in road traffic accidents, or in slip, trip, and fall incidents in public places.

In any personal injury claim, you seek compensation for the impact of a back injury on your life today and in the future.

The torn muscles in the back, the cracked vertebra and the chronic nerve damage can stop you working, put you in need of constant care and may change your life.

Ross Aldridge Solicitors in Cheltenham can make a personal injury compensation claim for the effects of any back injury.

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What is a back injury compensation claim?

A back injury compensation claim is the legal process you follow to get personal injury compensation for the impact on your life.

More than 10 million people in the UK are affected by back pain every year. Back pain can range from a slight tingle in the lower spine to a chronic, disabling type of pain. For 58% of people with a back injury, the pain is lifelong. Manual handling at work is the most prevalent cause of UK workplace back injuries, and 43% of reported musculoskeletal injuries are in the back. 40% of NHS workplace illnesses are back-related, and victims may claim over £196,000 for back injuries at work.

In Cheltenham and around southern England, employees, children in a car crash and people going on a shopping trip are in the types of accidents that leave them with a back injury.

Ross Aldridge personal injury solicitors in Cheltenham can be with you when making a compensation claim for a back injury.

Common back injury claims

Common back injury claims are for the torn muscles in the lower back or spinal cord damage, which can result in paraplegia and needing a lifetime of care.

A back injury can impact your life today and in the future, and you can make a claim for the costs, losses and suffering due to the accident.

Types of back injury claims:

Workplace back injury claims, like many manual handling injuries, often come from a lack of training or a lack of supervision in the office, the factory or the warehouse.

Back injury claims in the workplace:

  • Back injury due to a lack of lifting equipment in the warehouse
  • Back injury due to being crushed by falling goods in the store room
  • Back injury due to shifting desks in the office

Ross Aldridge Solicitors can make a workplace back injury claim for compensation against your employer.

Road traffic accident back injury claims are very common types of compensation claims in the Cheltenham area.

Types of back injury claims:

  • Lower back injury when knocked down by a speeding motorist
  • Spinal injury to a child when a car is hit while turning at a junction
  • Chronic back pain following a road traffic accident in town

There are many types of back injury suffered in road traffic accidents, and you may have a claim for compensation for an injury.

Slip, trip and fall injuries can happen in an accident in a public park, when shopping in the local mall, and even when on your way to work in the morning.

Common slip, trip and fall back injuries:

  • Back injury following a slip on a wet bathroom floor in the hotel
  • Back injury following a trip over loose cables at the gig
  • Back injury following a fall while in the shopping centre

Ross Aldridge personal injury solicitors can make a slip, trip and fall back injury claim when you are injured in an accident that was not your fault.

A back injury from any sport or exercise can affect you for life and limit your ability to play sports or engage in regular exercise for long periods.
If you suffer a back injury due to poor training routines or due to a deliberate bad tackle on the rugby pitch, you may have a compensation claim.

A back injury in the gym could be due to poor coaching or to lifting equipment that was not properly maintained.

Ross Aldridge Solicitors can make a back injury claim against the gym or the sports club where you suffered an injury.

Assault is on the rise in England, as a cause of many personal injuries and back injury claims follow many assault cases.

Types of assault back injury claims:

  • Lower back injury when kicked in the back in an unprovoked assault
  • Nerve damage to the back when assaulted at the music festival
  • Back injury when assaulted on a night out in town

Any back injury can be with you for life, and the assault injuries may also involve PTSD and other issues.

Ross Aldridge Solicitors has the experience in all types of back injury claims to make your claim for back injury compensation.

What are the common types of back injury seen in compensation claims?

The common types of back injury seen in compensation claims range from the disc injury to chronic pain and spinal cord damage.

Many back injuries are diagnosed at an early stage, such as a cracked vertebra, but other types of back injury may take longer to diagnose, and could be with you for life.

Types of back injuries:

  • Cracked vertebrae
  • Spinal cord damage
  • Bulging discs
  • Sprained muscles in the back
  • Sprained ligaments in the back
  • Torn tendons in the back
  • Stenosis
  • Paraplegia from a back injury
  • Quadriplegia from a back injury
  • Chronic back pain
  • Broken back

Every type of back injury will have some effect on your back. You may be in constant pain, be unable to work or in many cases be in difficulty when walking, standing up, or even getting out of bed in the morning.

If your back injury is due to an accident that was not your fault or not wholly your fault, you may have a compensation claim.

Ross Aldridge personal injury solicitors can make your back injury compensation claim.

How much compensation can I claim for a back injury?

Compensation for a back injury claim can go from more than £15,000 following an accident to amounts over £1 million and closer to £10 million in some personal injury claims.

A compensation claim is for the impact of the back injury on your life and the losses you suffered when injured in an accident that was not your fault. When making the injury claim, you are seeking compensation for the physical, emotional, and financial impacts on your life and that of your dependents.

Sample back injury compensation payments:

  • Lower back injury with chronic pain and discomfort from £12,220 to £19,200
  • Repetitive strain injury in the back due to work, from £10,750 to £23,130
  • Back injury at the gym, possibly needing surgery, from £38,780 to £69,730
  • Nerve root damage in the back in an accident from £74,160 to £88,430
  • Back injury in a slip, trip or fall on the local footpath from £78,400 to £130,930
  • Severe back injury leading to paraplegia from £282,010 to £430,990

(The figures given here are for General Damages, the pain, suffering, and loss of amenity following an injury to your back in an accident. In the personal injury claim, you may also receive compensation for any financial losses and other Special Damages you incur due to the accident. Figures are taken from Judicial College Guidelines 16th Edition and are accurate as of April 2023.)

Your Ross Aldridge personal injury solicitor will explain how damages in a personal injury claim work and how to combine them when making a compensation claim.

Who can make a back injury claim?

If you are injured in an accident that was not your fault, you can make a back injury claim. Any employee in a workplace accident, a toddler in a car crash, or a pedestrian knocked over by an e-scooter on the pavement may be able to make a back injury claim.
You may not even realise that you can make a compensation claim for the back injury, but if you are injured at work, when out exercising, or just walking down the street, you can have a claim.

People who make back injury claims with Ross Aldridge Solicitors:

  • Warehouse workers
  • Care workers
  • NHS staff
  • NHS medical staff
  • Pedestrians
  • Passengers in the family car
  • Construction workers
  • Office workers
  • Factory workers
  • Sports people
  • Delivery drivers
  • Warehouse employees
  • Farm workers
  • Fishing industry workers
  • Council employees
  • General labourers

Our experienced team of legal experts make successful claims with clients all the time. We work with people from all walks of life to make compensation claims for a back injury.

Ross Aldridge Solicitors are expert personal injury solicitors in Cheltenham and work hard for all our clients.

FAQs about back injury claims

Reading through our FAQs can be a big help when planning a personal injury claim. If you cannot find the answer to your question, please do not hesitate to contact our offices in Cheltenham.

Yes, you can make a claim for back injury compensation even when your employer says it was your fault. If you can show there was a lack of training at work or you were not provided with lifting equipment, you may make a claim.

Shared liability, where you and the employer share the fault in an accident, allows you to claim for the share of the injury due to an employer’s breach of duty of care.

Yes, you can claim if you were not given manual handling training, indeed it is often the first question we ask clients who have a back injury from doing any tasks at work.

A lack of training may be a breach of duty of care by an employee, especially when they ask you to do a task that requires the proper training, but you are not given it.

Yes, you can still make a claim if injured in a hit-and-run road traffic accident. The Motor Insurers Bureau has a compensation fund for those who suffer injury when the driver cannot be traced or was not insured.

A good personal injury solicitor can make your claim to the MIB fund and will be with you throughout the claims process.

The time limit for making back injury claims in the UK is three years. All personal injury claims have a three-year time limit, regardless of the injury type.

The three-year limit to claim only begins on the date you realise you have a back injury due to being in an accident.

Your No Win No Fee personal injury solicitor can tell you the exact rules around time limits for making a claim.

A No Win No Fee personal injury solicitor takes your claim but does not charge you a fee if you do not win the case.

When you win a personal injury compensation claim, it is usually the other side who pays the legal fees. Our solicitor will explain fully how a conditional fee agreement works and how it will benefit you.

You should not be out of pocket for making a personal injury compensation claim.

Our clients choose Ross Aldridge personal injury solicitors because of our reputation for working tirelessly on their behalf.

Our experienced team of No Win No Fee personal injury solicitors are on your side from day one. We will know from looking at the evidence that you have a valid claim and the damages you can claim for the back injury.

Our success rate in personal injury claims is high, and we use our experience to settle claims quickly and in the client’s favour.

Contact Ross Aldridge Solicitors today

Contact Ross Aldridge Solicitors today to make your personal injury claim for a back injury.

At Ross Aldridge, we have the experience and the team in place to cover all types of injury claims. We are specialist personal injury solicitors in Cheltenham and work tirelessly for our clients.

If you suffer a back injury when hit by a car or from doing a repetitive task at work, you could have a compensation claim for the effects on your life.

Ross Aldridge No Win No Fee personal injury solicitors in Cheltenham can make your back injury compensation claim.

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