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Criminal Injury

There are incidents of conflict that may result in certain physical injuries out of certain circumstances of force that is used on one person. Such injuries that are dealt with purpose of injury are termed as criminal injury.

There are several cases of criminal injury where personal injuries are sustained by a person out of the result of an act of violence. These are criminal injuries that are also subject to legal intervention and subsequent penalty from law.

Criminal injury can be attributed to cases which has the following injuries.

• Physical injuries
• Mental injuries
• Diseases and contracted illness

Criminal Injury Compensation

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority is a public service department in the government of the United Kingdom. This organization looks into cases of criminal injuries that are caused and initiates a compensation package for the victims in such cases.

The funding for such compensations is sourced from the ministry for justice in England and Wales as well as the Government of Scotland.

The compensation package is the largest in the world that is based on generous estimates in spite of various complaints against it of its failure to provide justified compensations in some cases.

Criminal Injury Claim

There are certain rules that have to be followed in order to gain acceptance or qualify for criminal injury claim compensation from the CICA.

Here are some of the steps that need to be taken.

• An incident of criminal injury has to be reported to the police immediately after it occurs.
• Any claim for compensation can only be made when it is within a period of 2 years from the date of the criminal incident.

Criminal Injury Compensation Tariff

There is a procedure for the calculation of the compensation amount that is paid to a victim of a criminal injury. This calculation depends on the kind of injury that is inflicted as well the amount of injury that is caused.

There is a compensation tariff that is there on which the calculation of compensation is made. The scale of compensation starts from a minimum payment of 1000 pounds to a maximum of 250,000 pounds.

In case of multiple or more than one criminal injuries inflicted upon a victim the calculation will be based on the following.

• Firstly the payment of the most serious injury.
• Additional 30% of the tariff amount for the next injury based on severity.
• This is added to another 15% payment on the tariff for the next severe injury.

Here is a table of the amount that is fixed for different injuries.

• 10,000 pounds in case of fatal injury
• Rape victim will get 7,500 pounds
• Multiple facial injuries will get 10,000 pounds
• Loss of one eye will get 10,000 pounds
• Rib cage injury will get 1000 pounds
• Fractured jaw will get 1000 pounds
• Loss of a tooth will get 1500 pounds
• Broken nose will get 2000 pounds