Is a wrist injury worth much in compensation? - Ask Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer Marc Quinn

Is a wrist injury worth much in compensation? - Ask Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer Marc Quinn

The full extent of injuries to a wrist is often underestimated by persons injured in accidents. Wrist injuries are extremely painful and can lead to long lasting permanent disability. Most everyday activities require the use of your hands and wrists. Physiologically, the wrist is quite complex and has several bones connected to each other with ligaments, the bones are called the scaphoid, the capitate, the hamate, the lunate, the triquetrum, the pisiform, the trapezium and the trapezoid. The wrist is connected to the forearm and often a wrist injury involves injury to the arm as well.

Wrist injuries include sprains (damage to ligaments holding the bones together) and fractures. Usually, a fracture will include one of the bones indicated or the two bones from the forearm being the radius and ulna. Sometimes, in addition to a sprain or fracture, there is also damage to the nerves.

Depending on the severity of the injury, in Ontario, wrist injuries yield general damages for pain and suffering anywhere from $15,000 to $50,000, in addition to all other damages available in a typical personal injury case.

If you have injured your wrist in an accident, you may be entitled to compensation. Contact us at 613-563-1131 - Marc Quinn - Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer for a free consultation. You have the right to seek compensation and you should know your legal rights.