When you go through a cosmetic surgery and come to learn that mistakes have been made in the surgery, or regarding your aftercare, resulting in injury or illness, it can be extremely distressing. 

 

With cosmetic surgeons being so highly-qualified and medically experienced, it is easy to think that cosmetic surgeries are low-risk. However, this is not always the case, and our cosmetic surgery solicitors regularly work with clients who have been injured during cosmetic surgeries as a result of medical negligence. 

 

If you have been injured due to mistakes made during your cosmetic surgery, and are looking to make a claim for cosmetic surgery compensation on a no win no fee basis, then MG Legal are the team for you. Simply contact our team online here, and speak to a solicitor on a free no obligation basis within one hour about your cosmetic surgery compensation. 

Cosmetic surgery is more popular than ever, and becoming more and more accessible, with more surgeons offering services, with surgery offered on finance, at very affordable rates.  

 

Generally, whether the surgery is provided by the NHS, or on a private basis, the service carried out, and the treatment given by cosmetic surgeons is generally good and the majority of surgeries go to plan, with patients extremely happy with the results. However, this isn’t always the case, and sometimes, the quality of treatment provided is poor, leaving you injured, or the surgery producing unwanted results, or results that you were not warned about, and therefore could not give your express, and informed consent to.  

 

Injuries arising out of poorly carried out, negligent cosmetic surgery, due to the very intimate nature of cosmetic surgery, can often lead to horrific life-changing injuries, affecting you not just physically, but mentally. 

 

If you've been injured by mistakes during cosmetic surgery, and the injury, of your date of knowledge of the injury, occurred within the last three years, and you want to discuss making a claim for personal injury, then please feel free to contact our dedicated cosmetic surgery negligence experts, and we will walk you through how we can assist you, on a no win no fee basis. 

 

 

If you have suffered a personal injury as a result of the negligence of a cosmetic surgeon, then you can make a claim for personal injury, and any additional damages associated with your injury. For example, your claim for personal injury is knows as ‘general damages’. In addition to a claim for general damages you may have heard the term ‘special damages’ used. The role of your personal injury solicitor is to put you back in the situation you were, financially speaking, prior to the incident that caused you to suffer a personal injury. See a full overview of the difference between general and special damages, here.  

 

The most Common examples of special damages include: 

 

• medical expenses –including painkillers, treatment, physiotherapy, CBT Treatment, privately funded MRI Scans, doctor’s consultation fees, diagnostic tests, massage therapy or any over the counter medicines you have purchased; 

 

• Long-term medical expenses – Some injuries may require you to undergo long term physiotherapy or other medical treatments. If this was made necessary because of the accident, you can claim compensation under special damages; 

 

• Travel costs – if you have suffered a personal injury that requires regular medical attention, such as outpatient visits to your local, or perhaps not so local hospital, then your personal injury solicitor at MG Legal will ask you to keep your receipts for petrol, the train, buses, or any other payment for transport that you have had to pay as a result of you being injured; 

 

• Loss of income – A sometimes huge part of a personal injury claim is the claim for lost earnings and income. If you have been absent from work as a result of your injury, then MG Legal will request payment for any lost earnings from the negligent person’s insurers. In the case of pursuing a claim for loss of earnings from a negligent cosmetic surgery procedure, then we would ask for your last 3 months wage slips, if you are employed, or last 3 years’ accounts if you are self-employed, calculate your lost earnings, and forward a request for payment to the negligent surgeon’s public liability insurers. Loss of income compensation is applicable if your salary was cut or if you lost out on some monetary bonus or other perks because your injuries forced you to stay away from work for a period of time; 

 

• Loss of earning capacity – in cases where your personal injury limits the work you can do, and are forced to leave a job, and seek alternate, lower paid work, as a result of your injuries, then MG Legal’s personal injury solicitors will calculate your future loss of earnings, by working out your annual net loss, called the multiplicand, and multiplying this figure by a multiplier, and this will be worked out by your age, how many years you have left to work before retirement, and any potential pay increases that you may have received during your working life, but for your personal injury. If the injuries are such that you are unable to return to your former place of employment and are forced to take up a lower-paying job, you may be able to claim compensation under this category. Basically, if the injury you have suffered as a result of your cosmetic surgery negligence injury would disadvantage you in seeking employment in the labour market, then the personal injury experts at MG Legal will ensure that you claim for this head of damages, loss of earning capacity, commonly referred to as a Smith v Manchester award, named after the case that popularised the claim; 

 

• Replacement of damaged property – this special damage claim is somewhat rare in the case of cosmetic surgery negligence claims, as you do not usually have property on you at the time of undergoing a cosmetic procedure. This head of special damages relates mostly to repairing or replacing damaged motor vehicles, in road traffic accidents, replacement of damaged clothing if you have damaged clothing in a trip, slip or a fall in the street, and so forth, That said, if your personal property was damaged in the accident, MG Legal’s specialist personal injury solicitors will help you claim for the actual cost of repairing or replacing it; 

 

• Cosmetic surgery repair costs – if your surgeon has failed to straighten your nose, and you require additional surgery, then our expert personal injury solicitors would request payment of whatever the reparation costs would be, from the negligent surgeon’s public liability insurance. Likewise if a surgeon has given you the wrong shaped, sized, type of breast implants, or cut you to a degree where further surgery is required to repair any damage to muscle tissue, or skin. If your tummy tuck surgery was carried out negligently, leaving you with fatty tissue where you shouldn’t have any, or your laser surgery has burnt your skin, and you now require camouflage, or makeup for the rest of your life to make your injury less noticeable, then MG Legal’s expert personal injury solicitors will seek these costs from the negligent cosmetic surgeon’s insurers. 

 

Evidence is key to MG Legal’s personal injury solicitors settling your cosmetic surgery compensation claim, and your injury will be assessed. Subject to your claim being accepted by our offices, on a no win no fee basis, the best medical experts in their field will be requested to prepare reports on your injury, detailing the physical, mental and monetary effects the injury has had on your life, and will have on your life in the future. Upon receipt of your medical evidence, our personal injury team will be able to value the personal injury aspect of your cosmetic surgery compensation claim, so that the compensation you receive, reflects the seriousness of the injury you have sustained as a result of someone else’s negligence.