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Brain Injury Claim
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Peter Rigby - Managing Director of Medical Negligence | Last updated on: 11th December, 2025
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Someone is admitted to the hospital every 90 seconds for a brain injury. These injuries usually occur due to accidents causing damage to the head, but unfortunately, medical mistakes can also result in brain injuries. In these circumstances, our specialist medical negligence experts are here to guide you through your brain injury claim and help you pursue the compensation for brain injury you deserve.
Making a Brain Injury Claim
The impact of a brain injury can vary, from subtle injuries affecting a person’s mental well-being and cognition to life-altering changes where individuals require constant medical care. At Patient Claim Line, we help clients pursue everything from minor head injury compensation and brain damage compensation to complex child brain injury claims and serious brain injury claims. No matter the severity of your brain injury, if you have suffered due to the negligence of a medical professional, we can help you to:
- Determine if you have a brain damage claim, diffuse brain injury claim, acquired brain injury claim, or hypoxic brain injury claim
- Understand the circumstances that led to your brain injury & how it could have been avoided
- Learn why you are entitled to compensation for a head injury
- Estimate your potential brain injury claim amount
What is a Brain Injury Claim?
Most brain injuries happen after a traumatic accident, such as a road traffic collision, and 95% of all brain injuries are considered to be mild, with patients making a full recovery. Unfortunately, there are cases where brain injuries occur as a result of medical negligence. This happens when mistakes are made or when procedures are not followed correctly. Examples include medical professionals failing to diagnose a condition, like meningitis, which leads to a brain injury, or where surgery has been performed incorrectly. If a medical mistake caused or contributed to your injury, you may be eligible for a brain injury claim.
Types of Brain Injury Claims
We have helped clients make brain injury claims for a vast number of reasons. The most common types of head injury claims we help with are:
- Stroke-related brain injuries – Failure to investigate symptoms like sudden vision loss, leading to a stroke
- Infant brain damage – Delayed caesarean sections causing oxygen deprivation and resulting in brain damage claims
- Brain tumour diagnosis – Misdiagnosis or treatment delays leading to acquired brain injury claims
- ENT infections – Untreated ear, nose, or throat infections causing brain damage claims
- Inflammation or infection-related brain injuries – Conditions such as sepsis or meningitis resulting in diffuse brain injury claims or hypoxic brain injury claims
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The Impact of Your Brain Injury
A serious brain injury can have a devastating effect on your life and on your loved ones. In the most severe cases, a brain injury can be life-limiting, and you may now require round-the-clock care. Compensation can help you access rehabilitation or ongoing care.
Long-term effects of a brain injury that you may need regular support for include:
- Amnesia
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
- Headaches and migraines
- Loss of balance
- Slurred speech
- Total loss of mental cognition
- Paralysis
Compensation can go some way to helping you after a brain injury. As part of our commitment to helping you, we can direct you to many charities and support organisations like Headway.org.
How Do I Know if I Can Claim?
The most important factor when making a brain injury claim is proving that the medical negligence you experienced directly caused the brain damage and its effects. The most common examples we see of medical negligence in relation to brain injuries are:
- Taking too long to diagnose or treat the illness or infection
- Failing to send for the proper tests
- Misinterpretation of test results
- The wrong surgical procedure is being carried out
- Errors during surgery
If you have been affected by any of the above or believe that you have suffered a brain injury due to medical negligence, once you feel ready, give us a call on 0330 107 5318 to discuss your claim and how we can help.
Why Pursue a Brain Injury Claim?
A head injury claim can often lead to a person being unable to work, which can cause financial hardship. We understand the pressure this can put on you and your family, which is why we work tirelessly to get you the compensation and support you need. Compensation can help with any initial losses as well as take into account future costs you may incur, including:
- Loss of earnings, either whilst undergoing treatment or for the future if you are unable to return to work
- Cost of ongoing medical treatment, including rehabilitation
- Changes to your home, for example, if a brain injury has left you unable to walk
- Paying for carers or for family members who have given up work to care for you
- Emotional pain and suffering
How much is a head injury claim worth?
A head injury compensation claim could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, according to the severity of the injury. Compensation exists as a blanket of financial aid to account for loss or reduction of income, the cost of rehabilitation and the care required following brain injuries that have impacted your independence. The amount of compensation awarded will be dependent on your individual circumstances and will be determined by how the injury has impacted your life.
Head over to our compensation payout guide to find more information on how compensation is calculated.
Why Choose Patient Claim Line for your Brain Injury Claim?
We understand the devastating impact of a brain injury claim on you and your loved ones. Our dedicated medical negligence team has over 30 years’ experience handling serious brain injury claims. We provide a personal, local service backed by one of the UK’s leading law firms, investigating every avenue to ensure you receive the brain injury claim amount you deserve.
No Win No Fee Brain Injury Claims
We operate on a No Win No Fee basis, meaning that you will not be required to make any upfront payments and if your case is unsuccessful, there will be no financial penalties. To help ease financial difficulties arising during the claims process, we also strive to secure interim payments. Interim payments are sometimes available once the people responsible for your brain injury admit fault earlier in the process. These payments can help pay for rehabilitation and settle any financial burdens quicker than expected.
Frequently asked questions about Brain Injury Claims
Our expert legal team answer your questions about making a Brain Injury Claim
The time limit for making a compensation claim is generally three years from the ‘date of knowledge’, which refers to the date on which you first became aware that a medical mistake had been made. This could be immediately after the incident or some time later. If you or the person affected is, or was, under the age of 18 at the time of the incident, the time limit is three years from their 18th birthday. This means that claims must be made prior to their 21st birthday.
If the person with the brain injury does not have the capacity to look after their own affairs, a ‘Litigation Friend’ can be appointed to make a claim on behalf of the person affected.
For individuals who do not hold the mental capacity to put forward a claim for their brain injury, there are also no time limits; however, it is important to seek legal advice on this.
Head over to our family guide to find out how to claim on behalf of someone else.
Once a claim has been made, there will be an investigation to identify the contributing factors to the injury. This usually includes obtaining medical records and seeking expert opinions. It can be difficult to determine whether a brain injury was the result of medical negligence. However, if after listening to your story and collecting evidence, we believe that your brain injury case is strong, we will strive to achieve the best possible compensation for you to start rebuilding your life.
To make a brain injury claim, you should start by contacting a specialist medical negligence lawyer who can tell you whether you have grounds for a claim or not. Should you choose to pursue the claim, the law firm will take care of the entire process for you. They will access medical records, pay for experts and arrange any tests or evaluations. It is best to make a claim as early as possible to ensure you have strong evidence, and you should proceed with a no-win no-fee arrangement for added peace of mind.
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Case Study
Sarah's Story
"Now we have peace of mind"
My husband, Nick, went back and forth to the doctors for a long time and tried everything the doctor recommended. But his illness got worse, to the point that he was in agony.
In the end we got so desperate that we asked for a referral. The doctor was reluctant, so we had to consult a private hospital. That’s when we found out there was a tumour. It took years from the onset of his illness to finally start cancer treatment.
He used to be a man with a lot to live for, but in the end he was in so much pain that he withdrew from the family. He became angry that nobody had helped him sooner, and the legal team were able to give him the validation that he was desperately seeking. The NHS confirmed if they had done more, Nick would still be alive today.
