Burns
Awards for all burns include compensation for any residual scarring or pigmentation and take into account any skin grafting. Awards for deep second degree, third degree or full thickness burns include compensation for actual or expected metabolic or cardiovascular consequences.
Please be aware this is for guidance only, please contact us to discuss your claim further.
1. Burns, with deep second degree, third degree, or full thickness burns affecting 70% or more of whole body surface area.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 4
£290,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £232,000 after our 20% fee
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This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 5
£175,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £140,000 after our 20% fee
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This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 6
£140,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £112,000 after our 20% fee
Start your claim4. Burns, with deep second degree, third degree, or full thickness burns to the face or face and neck including one or more of the following: loss of or very severe damage to chin, ear, lip or nose, resulting in or expected to result in residual scarring and poor cosmetic result despite treatment and camouflage.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 6
£140,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £112,000 after our 20% fee
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This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 7
£90,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £72,000 after our 20% fee
Start your claim6. Burns, with deep second degree, third degree, or full thickness burns affecting 9 to 14.9% of whole body surface area.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 8
£60,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £48,000 after our 20% fee
Start your claim7. Burns, with deep second degree, third degree, or full thickness burns to the face or face and neck resulting in, or expected to result in, residual scarring and satisfactory cosmetic result with camouflage.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 9
£40,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £32,000 after our 20% fee
Start your claim8. Burns, with deep second degree, third degree, or full thickness burns affecting 4.5 to 8.9% of whole body surface area.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 11
£15,500
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £12,400 after our 20% fee
Start your claim9. Burns, with deep second degree, third degree, or full thickness burns affecting less than 4.5% of whole body surface area.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 12
£10,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £8,000 after our 20% fee
Start your claim10. Burns, with first degree or superficial second degree burns affecting more than 15% of whole body surface area.
This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 12
£10,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £8,000 after our 20% fee
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This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 13
£6,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £4,800 after our 20% fee
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This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 14
£3,000
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £2,400 after our 20% fee
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This type of injury would fall into tariff level : 15
£1,200
If we were successful for this type of claim you would take home £960 after our 20% fee
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