Injury payments

[dewey666]

Does anyone have any idea what sort of compensation I could be expecting. I was involved in an unprovoked assault on the 6th of June 2009, I was knocked out and kicked repeatedly in the head my two soldiers. I suffered major concussion, I was unconcious for 15 minutes, I have a 2 inch scar above my right eye (4 stitches) and a 3 inch scar down the centre of my forehead (5 stitches), I was working as a kitchen consultant at the time and due to my "facial deformation" i resigned for medical reasons. I have also suffered a loss of vision in my left eye, I had 20/20 vison 2 weeks before the attack and i am now 1.5 in my left and +0.5 in my right.

Any ideas???????

Thank You In Advance

[bednobs]

are you talking about suing the inividuals (have they been found guilty of anything) or using CICA?

[dewey666]

They are being charged with Section 20 GBH (with intent)

[hc4361]

Phone these people. It is a free phone number.
http://www.cica.gov.u...ply-for/#tariff_award

[bednobs]

look here for cica rates http://www.cica.gov.u...n%20Scheme%202008.pdf
it will depend if your scarring is classed as mnor or signifcant, but it looks between £1000-2000 for that part and they dont seem to have a caegory for deterioration of vision, but it looks about £2500 if i read it right

[bednobs]

as regarding loss of earnings - did they make you resign or did you do so off your own bat? Have you since got another job? does your scar/vision problems prevent you from getting one?

[another-view]

"I was injured. How much do I get?"

This country gets more like the Yanks everyday.

[ummmm]

What? Do you think that someone who is a victim of an unprovoked attack shouldn't be compensated?

What about someone, like me and my little boy, who got knocked over on a pedestrian crossing because the driver was on his mobile and didn't see the red light? What about the fact that I couldn't work and I was self employed....and I couldn't pick my kids up because of the pain. That my little boy (4) was scared to leave the house because of the cars...

[dewey666]

in regard to bednobs answer, I am an airframes/engines B1 aircraft engineer, my eyesight is important to me and though it doesn't affect me too much right now it will make it difficult when i come to leave my current company, ' in search of greater things' :)