Claim chest injury compensation

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Accidents that can cause chest injuries:

• Road traffic accidents such as car crashes and motorbike incidents
• Slipping and/or tripping accidents
• Accidents in the workplace including heavy objects falling or chemicals
• Physical assault
• Sporting accidents and collisions

Common chest injuries include chest wall injuries caused following blunt trauma from bruising and fractures to the ribs. Other chest injuries include liver, spleen and heart injuries.

Chest injury compensation amounts:

Chest injury compensation is often difficult to quantify. Solicitors look at case law and guidance from the Judicial Studies Board, which publishes tables of likely compensation. Many awards in this area result from industrial disease like asbestosis and the area is complex. No two cases are the same and individual circumstances have to be taken into account.

• The worst cases leading to removal of a lung or serious heart damage with significant scarring and pain can attract up to £96,000.
• Traumatic injury to the chest heart and or lungs causing permanent damage and possibly shortened life expectancy up to £64,250.
• Relatively simple injuries such as a single penetrating wound but with no long term effects can attract up to £11,500.
• Toxic fume inhalation leading to some damage but not seriously affecting lung function, up to £8,000.
• Those injuries including simple fractures of the ribs,collapsed lungs, causing serious pain and disability over weeks or months but from which a full recovery is made, up to £3,450.

Compensation can also be awarded for loss of earnings, both past and future if the injury is serious enough to prevent the injured party working again and for associated losses such as medication, and treatments like physiotherapy or psychological help.

If you have suffered chest injuries you should seek immediate professional help to ascertain whether you have a claim for compensation.