Rib & Chest Injury Claims
Rib and Chest Injury Claims Solicitors
A serious chest or rib injury can disrupt every part of your life. Whether you were hurt in a road accident, a workplace incident, or due to medical negligence, Osbornes Law is here to help you claim the compensation you need to recover.
“Fielding a first class, very well resourced team of litigators, the personal injury department at Osbornes is rated for its diverse workload of complex, high-value injury claims.”
“Osbornes is a well-regarded personal injury practice well equipped to advise on high-value and high-profile claims.”
Understanding chest and rib injuries
Chest and rib injuries are not only physically painful but often lead to weeks or even months of recovery, lost income, and long-term complications. Whether your injury was caused by a road accident, an accident at work, or a medical negligence, understanding your rights is the first step toward recovery. At Osbornes Law, our experienced personal injury solicitors are here to guide you through the process and fight for the compensation you deserve.
Chest and rib trauma can involve:
- Simple rib fracture. A broken rib might seem minor, but it causes significant pain when breathing, sleeping, or moving. You often can’t work effectively or enjoy normal activities for weeks.
- Multiple rib fractures with complications. When several ribs break, breathing becomes extremely difficult and painful. You may need extended time off work and struggle with basic tasks like lifting.
- Pneumothorax (Collapsed Lung) This serious condition leaves you gasping for air and requires immediate medical attention. Recovery affects your ability to exercise or perform physical work.
- Flail chest. When multiple ribs break in several places, our chest wall becomes unstable. This life-threatening injury severely impacts breathing and often requires intensive care.
- Intercostal muscle damage. Torn muscles between ribs cause persistent pain and reduced mobility. You may experience ongoing discomfort that affects your work and quality of life.
- Internal organ damage from chest trauma. Heart, lung, or major vessel injuries can be catastrophic, potentially causing permanent disability or requiring ongoing medical care.
These injuries can cause breathing difficulties, chronic pain, and long-term disability. Nearly 15% of chest trauma patients experience rib fractures, and up to 94% of those have additional internal injuries. Immediate care and long-term rehabilitation are often essential
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Can I Claim Chest Injury Compensation?
If your injury was caused by someone else’s negligence: a driver, employer, property owner or medical professional, you may be entitled to compensation.
We help clients injured by:
- Road traffic accidents
- Construction or factory incidents
- Surgical errors or misdiagnoses
- Slips, trips, and falls on unsafe premises
Our solicitors gather medical records, expert reports, and witness statements to prove negligence and secure maximum compensation.
How much compensation could you get for a facial injury?
Compensation amounts for facial injuries vary depending on the severity and impact of the injury. The Judicial College Guidelines provide the following estimates:
- Minor rib injuries: £2,300 – £4,900
- Collapsed lung (full recovery): £2,150 – £6,600
- Minor lung damage: £5,000 – £12,250
- Chest injury with permanent damage: £12,250 – £21,920
- Traumatic organ damage: £63,250 – £122,850
- Severe cases (lung removal/heart damage): Up to £183,190
What can you claim for?
Compensation for a rib or chest injury is made up of:
General damages: For pain, suffering, and loss of amenity
Special damages: Including:
- Medical expenses (eg, surgery, dental treatment)
- Psychological therapy
- Loss of earnings
- Travel costs for medical appointments
Our solicitors will work with you to ensure all aspects of your injury and its impact are considered in your claim.
How we build your claim
Our personal injury solicitors support you at every stage, we will help collecting and managing:
- Medical evidence: X-rays, scans, hospital reports
- Expert opinions: Pulmonologists, trauma surgeons
- Accident documentation: Police reports, incident logs, CCTV
- Financial proof: Wage slips, receipts, rehabilitation costs
We leave no detail unchecked. Our thorough approach helps secure a fair settlement
Real-life client stories
- Our client suffered multiple rib fractures after being struck by a car. The cycling accident claim settled for a five figure sum. Read more here.
- Another cyclist client received a £75k payout after suffering multiple rib fractures as a result of being knocked over by a car. Read more here.
No win no fee claims
We offer a No Win No Fee arrangement , meaning you won’t have to pay any legal fees upfront. You only pay if your claim is successful, providing you with peace of mind and financial security during the process
Why choose Osbornes Law?
At Osbornes Law, our team of experienced and dedicated personal injury solicitors have been successfully representing clients for over 50 years. Our specialist knowledge and expertise in handling facial injury claims means we can provide you with the best possible legal advice.
We have particular expertise in serious injury claims , where compensation figures can run into hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds. We are also proud members of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, which represents personal injury solicitors, barristers, academics and students.
What other types of injuries can I claim for?
We have helped clients claim compensation for a wide range of injuries including:
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Osbornes fields a solid team of high quality practitioners, active in a range of catastrophic injury claims.
Osbornes prepares cases well; the whole team is good and lawyers there know their stuff.
They deal with people compassionately and take on the right amount of detail. The firm has some really brilliant key solicitors.
The personal injury team is responsive and its level of service towards clients and other professionals is exceptional and high quality
The team offers specialist expertise in cycling-related injury claims and regularly acts for foreign nationals.
It has considerable experience in cases arising from motor accidents and accidents at work
Osbornes is a well-regarded personal injury practice well equipped to advise on high-value and high-profile claims.
Their team includes bright, hard-working solicitors dedicated to achieving successful outcomes for their clients from partner level to paralegal. Their client care is exceptional.
They are a team who are highly respected in the PI sector.
This is an excellent PI team doing a broad range of PI work.
Osbornes’ ‘highly respected‘ personal injury team is experienced in a range of complex, high-value claims, with notable strength in acting for European clients for whom English is not a first language.
Osbornes’ ‘highly respected‘ personal injury team is experienced in a range of complex, high-value claims
Osbornes’ ‘highly respected‘ personal injury team is experienced in a range of complex, high-value claims.
"Osbornes always provides work of excellent quality and the advice is sound."
"The firm has the ability to handle the most sophisticated and complex matters."
"Osbornes is always client-focused and works tirelessly to obtain the best outcomes."
'The team deals with multi-million pound, often multifaceted claims, involving such factors as severe brain, psychiatric, gynaecological and spinal injury, major trauma, amputation and fatality.'
"They are a boutique firm with highly experienced partners who are well-respected in the industry."
"The team at Osbornes deals with catastrophic injury claims with the same professionalism as the largest firms, but provides a much more client-focused experience."
"A really first-rate team, well capable of dealing with the most serious and complex injuries."
"This team has carved out an exceptional reputation in catastrophic injury work."
"Osbornes has impressed me with their personal touch for clients whilst offering a first-class handling of catastrophic injury claims. The partners all have vast experience and are highly respected in their field."
"This is a really excellent personal injury team that can be regarded as one of the major players in the London claimant personal injury market."
"Osbornes have managed to recruit a team of outstanding catastrophic injury lawyers who are at the top of the game."
"They punch well above their weight. The quality of service they provide equals that of any of the larger top-name firms in this area"
Ben Posford is fiercely bright, with an unrivalled passion for his clients’ cases. His encyclopaedic knowledge of all things PI is second to none. His foresight and commercial nous have propelled Osbornes into the highest echelons of the market where they rightly belong.
The firm has an excellent and innovative line in cases involving non-English speaking claimants, managed by recruiting paralegals with multi-language skills – an impressive route for expansion of the caseload.
Great expanding team with expertise and respect in the sector. Led by a commercially savvy and business minded team.
A really excellent group of PI solicitors, notable for their individual quality.’
A niche firm that punches well above its weight in the catastrophic injury sector, borne out by the quality of work they obtain.
This combination of experience and diligence reaps massive rewards for clients, Osbornes being well known in the industry as a fantastic firm.
The Osbornes personal injury team now comprises some of the most technically adept and hard hitting lawyers in the business.
Ben Posford is one of London’s best catastrophic injury lawyers, in my view. He is a real brain injury specialist.
Excellent coverage of personal injury, and traumatic brain injury. There is a real specialism in claimants who do not speak English as a first language.
The group is noted for its expertise in matters relating to cycling injuries, and is the official legal partner of the London Cycling Campaign charity.
To complement its strong reputation for high-value and complex personal injury work, the firm continues to develop its 'excellent and innovative line in cases involving non-English speaking claimants'
"Osbornes comprises some of the most technically adept and hard hitting lawyers in the business"
"A small but high-powered team, dealing with cases of significant value and complexity."
"An excellent firm which achieves fantastic outcomes for clients."
"Osbornes Law have captured the magic of keeping the customer service levels of a smaller firm whilst having all the expertise and power of the biggest firms."
"A superb boutique catastrophic injury firm."
"Really good at dealing with people who have suffered a serious injury."
"Affable and charming with very good client-handling skills."
"superb firm with consummate professionals and a human touch."
Osbornes now has a team of highly experienced personal injury lawyers; particularly strong on high-value quantum cases, workplace accidents and claims involving foreign workers injured in the UK.
The team provides fantastic strength-in-depth for personal injury claims. It is also particularly well placed to service clients from Eastern Europe with specialist native language speakers. From the smallest case to a multimillion-pound spinal injury case, Osbornes has the right staff to manage every claim.
Ben Posford remains pre-eminent in his field with expert understanding of litigating cases of the upmost severity. His experience builds on Stuart Kightley’s running of the firm with recent partner additions of Rob Aylott making a fantastic addition.
A firm going from strength-to strength-which retains its client care whilst being able to offer a full personal injury service.
Beneath Ben Posford’s calm and reassuring presence, which clients love, lies a formidable tactical and legal brain. His experience tells and he gets it right at every stage of the process from arranging the best possible rehabilitation, to ensuring, so far as possible, a polite relationship with those acting for the defendant in order to ensure best and early resolution of the claim.
"Clients say he is very impressive, in terms of both his experience and his management of the personal injury team."
"They have an expanding profile in personal injury and clinical negligence and offer a superb, broad service in accidents abroad, enabled by their recruitment of bilingual legal executives who can guide non-English speakers through complex litigation."
"Solid personal injury practice well equipped to advise on high-value and high-profile claims arising from fatalities and severe head and spinal injuries."
"Offers specialist expertise in cycling-related injury claims."
"Offers specialist expertise in cauda equina syndrome cases."
"An exceptional outfit. They take on difficult cases, fight hard and win."
"Stuart Kightley is an incredibly empathetic solicitor who is very knowledgeable about traumatic brain injury."
"They are an outstanding firm to work with. They are consistently impressive in their work."
"Osbornes often handles claims valued at over £1m, particularly relating to severe brain and spinal cord injuries and niche areas such as cauda equina syndrome and cycling accidents."
"The hard-working, thorough and committed Robert Aylott, who brings significant heavyweight personal injury experience."
"Key team members include the energetic and personable Stuart Kightley who is head of the personal injury department."
"Osbornes has a growing influence and impressive work load and is gaining a reputation for handling complex catastrophic work."
"Catastrophic injury cases head Ben Posford is an excellent practical litigator who offers exceptional service."
"Stuart is also very experienced in advising on fatal accidents and workplace accidents."
Thank you for the hard work and patience and for being so patient with my constant questions.
"I have found Osbornes to be thorough, clear and understanding from the initial call. They do exactly what they say they will and with passion! I would recommend them to anyone".
Very good efficient service. Would not hesitate to use again.
I will use Osbornes for any future needs.
I don't think I could have asked for anything more. One of the best dealings I've had with the legal profession.
Sam was excellent and very professional in dealing with our claim.
Head of the personal injury department, Stuart Kightley is a first-rate practitioner, wholly focused on getting his client the best outcome in a pragmatic, sensible and consensual manner.
As a real specialist in spinal cord injuries, Ben Posford is always looking at new angles on how to maximise his cases.
Ben Posford is one of the best catastrophic injury lawyers around.
They provide exceptional service, great knowledge and understanding of the law, excellent client care and tactical nous
Stuart Kightley is praised for his expertise in catastrophic and fatal claims. Clients say he is very impressive, in terms of both his experience and his management of the personal injury team.
My claim was dealt with efficiently and professionally. Communication was excellent, and timely. Shrewd and sound advice was provided at every stage of the claim from beginning through to completion. On the basis of my personal experience I would strongly recommend Osbornes.
I just wish to thank you for your hard work and successful outcome. I am pleased with the result and would recommend you and your firm to anyone in the future.
Ben Posford … is ‘tactically astute’ and ‘one of the best personal injury solicitors around’.
Ben Posford ‘knows how to maximise the value of the claim for his clients’.
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Rob Aylott
Partner
Personal Injury SolicitorsSam Collard
Partner
Personal Injury SolicitorsSophie Davies
Partner
Personal Injury SolicitorsStuart Kightley
Partner
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