Hi Rosaline, I successfully sued the lorry driver who hit my motorbike, made a lot easier by the fact that the police successfully prosecuted him for dangerous driving. It wasn't as easy as you'd think, everyone involved seemed to have this fixed idea about motorcyclists, it was not so much a case of proving him guilty as proving my own innocence. This was 22 years ago, I think attitudes to bikers have changed a bit but I wouldn't bank on it. Frankly I don't think I'd have won if there were not several witnesses, despite the fact that the driver came onto my side of the road and knocked me 30 feet, breaking my arm in six places and ripping all the nerves out of my brachial plexus in the process-his lawyer tried to suggest I 'fell off' by myself......!
There is now a tbpi group in the UK at http://pub28.ezboard.com/badultswithbra ... usinjuries , it's a message board and there's an informational website attached. It has been set up entirely by individuals with tbpi, some of the regular posters are in the process of making claims for their injury and may be able to help you. Also worth checking is www.nabd.org.uk who can be very helpful with this kind of thing.
If you have any questions please email me by clicking on my name above, I'm now in New Zealand but am a brit and got my injury in the UK. Good luck :0)
Has anyone won a Brachial Plexus Injury case?
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jennyb
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: January 1980 Yamaha RD200 vs 16 wheeler truck, result, 1 totally paralysed right arm. I was 21, now 54. I had no surgery, I don't regret this. Decided to totally ignore limitations (easily done aged 21) adapted very quickly to one handed life, got married, had 3 kids, worked- the effect of the injury on my life (once the pain stopped being constant) was minimal and now, aged 54, I very rarely even think of it, unless I bash it or it gets cold, then I wish I'd had it amputated :) Except for a steering knob on my car, I have no adaptations to help with life, mainly because I honestly don't think of myself as disabled and the only thing I can't do is peel potatoes, which is definitely a good thing.