Competing or taking part in sport abroad can be an exciting prospect, but when accidents happen, it helps to have an expert international legal team on your side. With more than 25 years of experience, our specialist international sports injury solicitors can help you claim compensation and access the treatment and support you need.
We have the UK's largest and most successful team of solicitors specialising in making accident claims abroad. Our experts combine their expertise in international law and sporting injury claims to navigate foreign laws and get you the best the best possible compensation settlement.
If you’d like to find out if you could make a claim, or if you need some advice about your options, give us a call on 0800 056 4110 or get in touch online.
Can I Claim Compensation For A Sports Injury Abroad?
Our team has experience handling many types of sports injury, on behalf of professional athletes as well as amateurs and holiday makers. We’ve helped many clients claim compensation for a variety of sports injuries, including: muscle or bone injuries, spinal injuries, brain injuries and psychological injuries such as PTSD.
We’ve helped people make sports injury claims related to:
- Rugby
- Football
- Cycling /triathlon
- Motorsport
- Expeditions (including trekking and mountain biking)
- Fitness activities (including obstacle courses and gym)
- Water sports (including paragliding and boating accidents)
- Winter sports (including skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding and tobogganing)
- Golf
- Horse riding
- Faulty sports equipment
- Injuries involving crowds
If you’re claiming as a professional athlete, we’ll make sure your compensation reflects your loss of earnings from your injury. We take into account your career trajectory, performance bonuses, endorsements, speaking engagements and other lost opportunities. We draw on our years of experience as well as expert and witness evidence to work out how much compensation you deserve.
We can also help professional athletes who’ve been injured abroad generally, for example, if you’ve been involved in a road traffic or other accident.
Whether you’re a professional athlete or an amateur, our team could help you access the best support and rehabilitation for your injuries while getting you the highest possible compensation amount.
What Can I Do To Support My Claim?
You should get in touch as soon as possible after suffering a sports injury abroad. We offer a free initial consultation to talk about what happened to you and whether we can help you make a claim.
If you claim with us, we’ll talk to you about how to pay for your claim. Most of our clients use a No Win No Fee agreement, which means there’s no financial risk to you when making a compensation claim.
You should take photos of your injury as soon as possible after the accident and also take photos of any scarring that follows. It’s also helpful if you take photos of the accident scene or any faulty equipment. You should record the names and contact details of any witnesses of your accident.
After you’ve received medical help, keep any receipts for prescriptions, travel costs to medical appointments or for any private care you might have. Make sure you keep any details of reports made to the police, event organisers, insurers or anyone else involved.
How Can We Help?
Our team start by working out who’s responsible for your injury, which courts can hear your claim and which country’s’ laws will apply to your case. Some countries have different time limits and rules which apply to personal injury claims.
We handle most of our international sports injury claims in England and Wales, but in some cases, it may be better to bring your claim abroad. In these cases, we can also work with our network of international lawyers and experts to help navigate the foreign laws and procedures. Depending on the circumstances of your claim we may advise you that it's in your best interest to start your claim in Scotland, as their laws differ slightly to England and Wales.
We’ll then gather information and contact those responsible to see if they accept responsibility for your accident. If they do, we could get you interim compensation payments before we settle your claim. These payments come out of your final settlement amount and can help you pay for your medical treatment, travel costs, adapted accommodation and replace your lost earnings.
How long it takes to get you compensation will depend on:
- Proving who was responsible for your injury
- How long it takes to get them to accept their responsibility
- How severe your injuries are and how long it takes to work out your treatment and rehabilitation needs.
We always aim to get you compensation by settling out of court, but in some cases we’ll need to go through court proceedings to get you the compensation you deserve.
We aim to make the claims process as simple as possible, supporting you through every step of your claim.
How Much Compensation Can I Claim?
How much compensation you receive will depend on a number of factors, including the circumstances of your injury and the support and rehabilitation you’ll need.
We work out how much compensation you could claim by considering a number of things, including:
- How serious your injuries are
- If you’ve suffered psychological trauma from your accident
- If you’ve lost earnings or if your injuries affected your ability to work or compete
- If you have any medical expenses (both abroad and in the UK)
- If you have travel expenses for any appointments (both abroad and in the UK)
- Your care and support needs (both now and in the future)
- If you need modifications made to your home
- If you need mobility aids
- Your level of pain
- Other financial loss or expense because of your injury
Why Choose Us?
Making a claim here or in a foreign country is made much simpler with a team of specialist solicitors on your side. As experts in international law and personal injury law, we’re perfectly positioned to help you get the compensation and support you deserve.
We have the UK's largest team of international personal injury lawyers, with extensive experience in sport related injuries. Our specialist solicitor, Kylie Hutchison, has represented England over 120 times at 4 World Cups and 8 European Championships in touch rugby. She’s seen first-hand the investment and dedication athletes put to their sport so we understand the devastating impact an injury can have.
We always put your interests and wellbeing first when handling your claim, making sure you get the support and rehabilitation you need to make the best recovery possible.
We understand that compensation should reflect much more than just the immediate impact of your physical injury. This is why we make sure your settlement amount reflects the long term impact your accident had on your career, your hobbies and your mental wellbeing.
Throughout your claim, we'll explain everything to you in plain English and make sure you know all your options at every stage.
Because of our team’s proven track record of success, we’re ranked 1 in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, independent guides to the legal profession.
Call us today on 0800 056 4110 or get in touch online for a free initial consultation about your claim.
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