Employment loss in clinical negligence claims arises where avoidable medical injury causes a reduction in earning capacity or forces a career change. The calculation methodology mirrors personal injury: establishing what the claimant would have earned absent the negligent injury and comparing it to actual or projected post-negligence earnings.
The key additional challenge in clinical negligence is causation: the expert must address whether the avoidable injury (not a pre-existing condition) caused the employment loss. Interaction with care and accommodation heads of loss also requires careful coordination between experts.
Our employment loss experts work alongside care experts and treating clinicians to produce integrated, defensible loss of earnings evidence for High Court and County Court clinical negligence proceedings.
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Employment loss in clinical negligence claims is calculated using the same multiplier/multiplicand and Ogden Tables methodology as personal injury, establishing what the claimant would have earned absent the negligent injury and comparing it to their actual or projected post-negligence earnings. The key additional issue is establishing causation: that the avoidable injury (not a pre-existing condition) caused the employment loss.