• Medical malpractice or physical injury
• Traffic accident
• Accident in the workplace
• Work-related illness
• Victims of violence: normal criminal proceedings and the ‘CIVI’
• Victims of asbestos
• Other cases and accidents

Assessment and compensation of injuries:

The medical scales
The different components of a claim
Their compensation
Assistance by a specialized doctor and lawyer
VanTeslaar law offices
Fees

To assess the extent of an injury, doctors use different severity scales, which in medico-legal terms, ranks the severity of the injury.

Once this is done, the next step is to look at the compensation tables, officially drawn up by a small number of commissions and unofficially by certain courts, to determine the level of award to the victim (see “compensation of the injury” hereafter).

The most well-known medical severity scale is available is “Concours médical”. By virtue of a decree implemented in 2003, this scale is applicable when an award is made by ONIAM for a medical accident or an infection acquired in a hospital or clinic. The decree (which incorporates the scale) can be obtained here.

Another scale is that established by the Legal and Criminal Medical Society of France.

You can find the following scales on the links shown below:

• the scale for accidents at the workplace
• the scale for occupational disease of employees
• the invalidity scale, applicable to governmental employees for their ‘retirement pension’