by Russell Worth | Jun 11, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
A nine-year-old girl who was left with severe cerebral palsy as a result of catastrophic brain damage suffered during her birth has won a £1.7 million settlement of her case against the NHS. The girl was starved of oxygen during her mother’s labour and, as a result,...
by Russell Worth | Jun 9, 2014 | Industrial Disease, News
An elderly man who worked with asbestos for ten years in various jobs died from industrial disease, a coroner has ruled. David Thomas, aged 74 from Burton, died in February after years of being exposed to asbestos in the 1960s. The inquest found that although he had...
by Russell Worth | Jun 6, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
A man who was left permanently disabled after a nerve was inadvertently severed during a hospital operation on his hand has been awarded £45,000 in compensation from the NHS. The pensioner went under the knife after developing Dupuytren’s Contracture, a...
by Russell Worth | May 27, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
A 15-year-old girl who was left profoundly deaf and disabled due to the failure of hospital staff to promptly diagnose and treat meningitis when she was a baby have achieved a multi-million-pound settlement of her case against the NHS. The girl was stricken by the...
by Russell Worth | May 22, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
A little boy who is facing a lifetime of acute disability due to a medical blunder following his premature birth has won a multi-million-pound compensation pay-out from the NHS. The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust admitted that there had been a negligent...
by Russell Worth | May 22, 2014 | Industrial Disease, News
In a case which bitterly revealed the difficulty faced by litigants involved in historic asbestos cases, a widow who claimed that her husband’s death was caused by exposure to the lethal substance whilst working in a cemetery in the 1970s has received a judge’s...
