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Injuries Resulting in Blindness - Rose Gibson, Simpson Millar LLP

18/06/16. Having dealt with a number of cases involving loss of sight over the years, it was not until I had to visit the JC Guidelines for a case involving total sudden blindness to a teenage girl that I was acting for that it really sunk in to me how woefully inadequate damages for injuries are in the UK.

As it happened, the case hit the headlines of the newspapers, and as a result of this, I was contacted by and met an American lawyer who specialised in similar injuries in the US. We compared notes and agreed that the then £192,000 (now £224,680) for total blindness in both eyes was nothing short of shocking.

I went on a journey with this case and discovered that not only is it extremely rare to be unlucky enough to have an accident that results in blindness in both eyes, but that sudden total blindness in two eyes is almost unheard of, so I quickly realised that everyone involved in this particular case was on new territory for the most part...

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