{"id":12372,"date":"2013-04-17T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2013-04-17T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:10:37","slug":"legal-advice-for-plastic-surgery-compensation-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/04\/17\/legal-advice-for-plastic-surgery-compensation-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Advice for Plastic Surgery Compensation Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"getWe live in a world where image is everything! Nowadays it is so easy to get access to invasive surgery to enhance the way our body looks<\/strong>. From the well known face lifts and Botox treatment to breast implants, nose reshaping, and even buttock implants (which sounds crazy!), it\u2019s all available on the high street for the right price.<\/p>\n

But one thing that many people are not too aware of is the relatively poor state of the regulation here in the UK for cosmetic surgery. Don\u2019t get me wrong, there is regulation; but we have all learned from the PIP breast implant scandal that there is nowhere near enough protection for people who have suffered due to negligence in the cosmetic surgery industry<\/strong>. There are no group insurance schemes for when a clinic goes in to liquidation (of which some have purposefully chosen this route to avoid paying out!) and clearly there is not enough being done to make sure that products used in the body are continually tested.<\/p>\n

Anyway, breast implants aside, where do you stand when it comes to needing legal advice or representation for a plastic surgery claim? Do you have the right to claim compensation<\/a> when something has not turned out the way it was meant to?
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What we need to do first is examine whether you have a potential claim or not. The same principles apply for cosmetic surgery that do with other forms of claiming for compensation<\/strong>. There has to be negligence<\/strong> for you to make a claim. Negligence is typically born from a mistake, or something that was unexpected. There is a big difference between suffering due to an inherent risk and suffering because someone has made an error.<\/p>\n

So whether you have a claim or not normally boils down to whether your suffering has been caused due to a problem that was perhaps not excepted. Some common examples are:<\/p>\n