Compensation For Career Changing Injuries

I recently settled a claim for a lady who was injured in a very frightening accident. She is a European national who was in the UK studying cordon bleu cookery (she worked as a chef at high profile events during the London Olympics).

She was crossing in front of a stationary car that was about to pull out onto the main road. She had made it about halfway across the front of his bonnet when she slipped on something on the ground. As she fell she remembers trying to catch the driver's eye.

Witness evidence later showed that the driver had looked to his right before pulling out but had not looked right-left-right. He drove over her body where she had slipped to the ground. Presumably, not knowing what he had driven over, the driver put his car in reverse and drove backward over her. After a few seconds, he put his car in drive again and drove forwards and over her body for the third time.

A passer-by screamed at the driver and made him stop and get out of his car. He left her trapped underneath the car as he got out. Fortunately, she did not suffer a head injury but perhaps unfortunately for her she was not knocked unconscious during the whole ordeal.

At the hospital, she was told that she had suffered multiple and...