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[Connemmara]

How much would one receive in compensation for the loss of half your leg - below the knee.

[Connemmara]

sorry - a bus crashed into him waiting at the bus stop

[Connemmara]

Zacsmaster I would know all that but I am only after a brief rough guess would it be £300,000

[Connemmara]

the bus company was very negligent as the bus mounted the pavement

[buildersmate]

The purpose of the compensation is to provide money to pay for things like loss of earnings over a period of time - if the individual now can't do what they did before - plus an element of what I suppose could be called 'inconvenience factor'.
The gross award then gets chopped back if the individual was partly liable for the accident.
Hence it is impossible to provide a figure.

[hc4361]

A 28 year old professional footballer will get a lot more than a 70 year old person who has needed a mobility scooter to get around.

[humpy07]

Basic compensation for injuries is based on the JSB Guidelines, previous caselaw and often the legal text Kemp & Kemp (Not Martin and Ross BTW).

JSB states that the compensation reward for amputation of one leg is £50,000 - £155,000, depending on where the amputation has taken place i.e. above / below knee. Any other damages would depend on future loss of earnings (i.e. a solicitor would get much more than a bin man) and other circumstances such as loss of promotion, disadvantage in the workplace etc.

[Connemmara]

he lost below the knee and only worked 5 hours per week.

[Connemmara]

for zacsmaster - driver lost control - after this particular accident - another little girl was killed again by a negligent bus driver so there

[another-view]

If he worked 5 hours a week, he wouldn't earn £300,000 and so your figure is unrealistic. It will be much lower and based around his income.