You could be eligible to claim for lost earnings in a pelvic mesh compensation claim as part of a No Win, No Fee legal action with our leading team of vaginal mesh lawyers now.
Read on for some advice in respect of how this can work, and make sure to contact our team for free, no-obligation legal help to claim without delay now.
Can you claim for lost earnings in pelvic mesh cases?
You could be entitled to claim for lost earnings if you have incurred such losses as a result of a pelvic mesh injury or complications. When it comes to pursuing a vaginal mesh compensation claim, there are two heads of losses that are typically the most common. These are General Damages for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity caused, and Special Damages for losses and expenses. It is the latter category of Special Damages that lost earnings can fit into.
The way it can work is fairly simple. If you have had to have time off work as a result of pain, problems and complications arising from pelvic mesh, and you lost earnings as a result, you could be entitled to recover those earnings if the claim succeeds. Whether the pain and problems are general, or whether they have stemmed in the period after revision surgery, as long as they are caused by the problems and they are reasonable losses, that is when you could be eligible to recover such losses. Evidencing such losses is fairly simple by using evidence such as wage slips, or if you are self-employed then we can look at tax return information for typical earnings to calculate the loss as best as we can.
In some cases, where people have suffered substantial problems and complications and had to have long periods of time off work, a claim for lost earnings could be one of the most important elements of a case.
What about future losses and expenses?
Not only could you be eligible to claim for lost earnings that have already been incurred, you may also be eligible to pursue future lost earnings. A simple example is that, in a worst-case scenario, if the pains and complications you are left with are going to be with you for the rest of your life, you could theoretically be eligible to pursue lost earnings until the age of retirement. There are some women who became unable to return to work as a result of the problems that they have had, so this can be accounted for.
When it comes to evidencing this, we can again look at past losses and then we can work out how these may have affected you in the future, including incremental increases to make sure that you are not losing out. Calculating such losses is not always exact, but the law is on your side to make sure that we can do as much as possible to make sure you do not lose out.
As well as future lost earnings, you may also be able to recover compensation for future expenses, including medical costs and care and assistance claims.
Free, no-obligation legal help available here now
If you want to find out if you are eligible to pursue a pelvic mesh compensation claim, all you need to do is contact our team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.
We can usually tell you quickly if your claim is one that we are able to pursue for you now on a No Win, No Fee basis. All our advice and conversations are treated in the strictest confidence, and we can provide you with advice as to whether we can help you, and then you can decide what you want to do from there.
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