by Russell Worth | Jul 9, 2013 | asbestosis compensation, Industrial Disease, News
In a stark illustration of the difficulties faced in establishing liability in asbestos cases so many years after an alleged causative event, a middle-aged woman who was said to have contracted mesothelioma due to exposure to asbestos in a primary school playground...
by Russell Worth | Jul 9, 2013 | Industrial Disease, Miners Compensation, News
An elderly man who used to work as a coalminer has died from an industrial disease, it has been reported. An inquest last month heard how Geoffrey Bleazard, aged 88 and from Horringer, Suffolk, had worked in the coalmines for 30 years, beginning when he was aged 14....
by Russell Worth | Jul 8, 2013 | Cosmetic Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery Claims, Medical Negligence, News
Botox injections are being used to treat an erratic heartbeat, it was reported yesterday. Doctors are injecting the toxin, usually used as an anti-wrinkle treatment, into fat pads that surround the heart to paralyse the nerves that trigger a faulty rhythm. The...
by Russell Worth | Jul 8, 2013 | Medical Negligence, News
Lawyers have succeeded in obtaining a £3.8 million compensation pay-out for a six-year-old boy whose brain was starved of oxygen due to a delay in his caesarean delivery at an NHS hospital. In approving the settlement, a judge said that she was “deeply humbled” by the...
by Russell Worth | Jul 8, 2013 | Medical Negligence
Lawyers representing a courageous schoolboy who was left with a paralysed right arm due to nerve damage suffered during his hospital birth have achieved a £462,500 settlement of his claim against an NHS trust. The settlement is believed to be one of the largest ever...
