Serious Injury Claims Solicitors

When a serious injury changes your life, you need specialist solicitors who understand its lifelong impact and the value of your claim. Our serious injury team has secured multi-million pound settlements for brain injuries, spinal cord damage, amputations, and fatal accident claims. We’ve been fighting for seriously injured clients for nearly 50 years.

Osbornes Law specialises in serious and catastrophic injury claims and are ranked in Chambers UK and Legal 500 for our expertise. We act for people who have sustained injuries with lasting or permanent consequences, securing compensation that reflects not only what has happened, but what you will need for the future.

This guide explains what is classed as a serious injury, how serious injury compensation is assessed, and how our specialist personal injury solicitors can help you protect your long-term interests.

What is considered a serious injury?

A serious injury is one that has a significant and lasting impact on your physical or psychological health, your ability to work, or your day-to-day life. These injuries often require ongoing medical treatment, rehabilitation, care, or long-term support.

Serious injuries commonly include

• Brain Injury Claims – including traumatic brain injury (TBI), acquired brain injury, skull fractures, and cognitive impairment
• Spinal Injury Claims and paralysis claims – including spinal cord injury compensation, paraplegia, tetraplegia, and chronic back injuries
• Amputation and Limb Loss Claims – including loss of limb compensation, crush injuries, and permanent disability
• Fatal Injury and Wrongful Death Claims – helping families claim compensation after a fatal accident
• Polytrauma (multiple injury) claims – involving multiple serious injuries from a single incident, affecting different parts of the body and requiring complex, long-term treatment
• Complex orthopaedic injury claims – covering severe fractures and joint injuries that cause lasting pain, reduced mobility and the need for ongoing treatment or care

Unlike minor injuries, serious injury claims focus on the long-term consequences of the injury and the support you will need for the rest of your life.

What is the difference between a serious and catastrophic injury?

The terms serious injury and catastrophic injury are often used interchangeably. While there is no strict legal definition separating the two, catastrophic injuries usually involve the most severe outcomes, such as profound brain injury, paralysis, or extensive amputations.

Both serious and catastrophic injury claims are complex. They typically involve:

• High-value compensation claims
• Detailed medical and expert evidence
• Long-term care and rehabilitation planning
• Consideration of future housing, equipment, and support needs

Our solicitors have extensive experience handling these types of claims, including the most complex and high-value cases.

How serious injury compensation is calculated

Compensation for a serious injury is designed to put you, as far as possible, in the position you would have been in had the injury not occurred.

A serious injury claim may include compensation for:

• Pain, suffering and loss of amenity
• Past and future loss of earnings
• Ongoing medical treatment and rehabilitation
• Care and support needs
• Adaptations to your home or alternative accommodation
• Specialist equipment, transport and mobility aids

Because serious injuries often have lifelong consequences, it is vital that compensation reflects your future needs, not just your current situation.

Making a serious injury claim

Serious injury claims can arise from a wide range of accidents, including:

• Cycling Accident Claims
• Accident at Work Claims
• Road Traffic Accidents
• Sports Injury Claims
• Medical Negligence Claims

Our solicitors handle every stage of the claim, from early investigation and evidence gathering to negotiation and, where necessary, court proceedings. We work to secure interim payments wherever possible, helping you access treatment and financial support while your claim is ongoing.

Why specialist serious injury solicitors matter

Serious injury claims are not routine personal injury cases. The value of the claim, the complexity of the evidence, and the long-term impact on your life mean specialist expertise is essential.

Our serious injury solicitors:

• Focus exclusively on complex and life-changing injury claims
• Work closely with medical experts, rehabilitation providers and care professionals
• Understand how to value long-term and future losses accurately
• Protect compensation through trusts where appropriate

This specialist approach ensures your claim is prepared thoroughly and with your long-term security in mind.

Why choose our serious injury solicitors?

Osbornes are the approved lawyers for these charities, including The Brain Injury Group, Headway, Limbless Association and Spinal Injuries Association. We have specialist teams that deal with various accident scenarios, including:

Ben Posford leads our serious injury team. Ben is considered one of the leading serious injury lawyers in the UK. He is ranked in the highest band of lawyers in Chambers and Partners and as a leading individual in Legal 500.

“A leader in his field of serious injury work.”
Chambers UK 2024

Ben’s team will help you connect with medical experts, therapists and care providers to make sure your future needs are taken care of. We aim to secure you the best financial package, with early or interim payments throughout your case, so you don’t have to worry about your financial situation.

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“I sustained a serious injury after being knocked down by an out-of-controll dog. A friend in the legal profession recommended Osbornes Law to take on my personal injury case. Having never been involved in anything like this before, I was uncertain of both the process and the outcome. Aife Barrett and Barry Osbourne guided me through the whole process and supported me through the multiple medical interventions and assessments, finally bringing my case to a successful conclusion and a satisfactory financial settlement. Thank you to all the team.”