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A Guide to the Different Personal Injury Degrees to an Arm

Saturday, October 17, 2015

When you are in an accident, one of the most common and sometimes the most devastating injuries that you can sustain is an arm injury. Having your arm injured can seriously impact your life – just ask anyone who has broken their arm. So having an injured arm really makes you do things differently and disrupts your life. Here are the five different degrees of arm injuries that people sustain and what is involved with them to give you an idea of what may be expected.

Minor Injuries

This is a really common type of claim. This includes things like damages to muscles or a broken bone in your upper arm or forearm. This kind of fracture heals fast with no kind of ongoing problems. This is the kind of injury which after it heals you forget that you had the problem and you don’t have any more pain after the injury has healed

Fractured bone with continuing symptoms

If you have suffered a broken arm in the accident and you have ongoing pain, but this pain is ongoing, this is the next degree of this kind of claim. The amount that you will possibly receive for this problem will likely be a bit more than what you will get from a minor claim.

Ongoing disability

If the injury to your arm has healed but you still have significant symptoms and you are able to use your arm, this is the next degree of an arm injury and it’s going to have a higher payout in general than the other two.

Serious injury

This is the claim that is right before the need for an amputation. This often will include more than one broken bone and will leave the person significantly disabled with ongoing pain. There’s a wide scope of the compensation for this kind of injury since the injuries are so diverse.

Amputation

This is the most extreme case of a claim, when the arm has to be amputated. It can have a few different forms, below the elbow, above the elbow, or at your shoulder amputation. When you lose more of your arm, you are going to receive more compensation. If both arms have to be amputated, that is going to equal a great amount of compensation. When you have had an arm injured due to an accident you are entitled to compensation. As you can see from the examples above, the amount of compensation that you will receive is going to depend on how badly you were injured.