Losing a limb is devastating, but it does not have to mean that your life is over.

True Solicitors serious injury team has represented many clients who have lost fingers, toes or whole limbs and can help you to access compensation, rehabilitation including prosthetics assessments and fitting following an accident which wasn’t your fault.

An amputation is where a limb is removed due to an accident or via surgery. Doctors may need to surgically remove a limb to save your life following an accident, or a limb may need to be removed due to medical negligence.

Traumatic limb loss is usually caused due to an accident such as a road traffic accident or an accident at work. Surgical amputation may however be required due to type 2 diabetes. This happens as a result of mismanaged diabetes, which leads to a restriction of blood flow to your extremities, usually toes, feet or lower legs.

Traumatic amputation happens as the result of a serious accident such as:

• A road traffic accident 
• An accident at work – i.e. faulty or poorly maintained machinery, a fall, slipping or tripping on unsafe surfaces
• A fall from ladders or scaffolding
• Objects falling on you
• Farming accidents
• Construction accidents
• Amputation may also result from clinical negligence, this can be due to misdiagnosis or surgical error

Common examples of amputations due to clinical negligence include:

• Mismanagement of diabetes
• Infection of wounds
• Cancer misdiagnosis
• Meningitis misdiagnosis
• Surgical error
• Failure to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT)

Your solicitor will aim to obtain interim payments early on in the claims process in order to help you to concentrate on your recovery, whilst easing the financial burden the amputation has had on your life.