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...
by Russell Worth | May 20, 2013 | Accident Claims, Medical Negligence, News
In a unique settlement that makes clear that ‘secondary victims’ of negligence can also be compensated for their suffering, lawyers have secured a £150,000 pay-out for a widower who ‘drank himself into oblivion’ due to the trauma of witnessing his wife’s final...
by Russell Worth | May 16, 2013 | Hospital Infections, Medical Negligence, News
The NHS has come under fire again after a YouGov poll reported that nearly half of Britons say they or their families have experienced poor hospital care or neglect. The poll, carried out in February, concluded that patients regularly struggle to get the treatment...
by Russell Worth | Apr 22, 2013 | Accident Claims, Medical Negligence, News
Lawyers representing a seven-year-old boy who was born catastrophically disabled due to what was alleged to have been a catalogue of errors by midwives, has won an NHS compensation package worth £8.5 million. It was claimed that, had the boy been delivered by...
by Russell Worth | Apr 17, 2013 | Accident Claims, Medical Negligence
Hundreds of victims of PIP implants attended the first day of the trial of Jean-Claude Mas and four of his management team in France yesterday.PIP founder Mas and his management team are charged with aggravated fraud, and they were booed as they arrived in the...
