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...
by Russell Worth | Jul 8, 2013 | Personal Injury
A high school in Essex has been fined after a 14-year-old boy fell over four metres from a climbing wall. The incident occurred during a PE lesson at Manningtree High School in October 2012, when the teenager was one of four pupils selected to try the school’s first...
by Russell Worth | Jul 8, 2013 | Car Accidents, Personal Injury
Lawyers representing a courageous 17-year-old girl who plans to attend university and forge an academic career notwithstanding catastrophic injuries she suffered in a road accident have achieved a £14 million settlement of her compensation claim. The figure is one of...
by Russell Worth | Jul 8, 2013 | Industrial Disease, mesothelioma
The Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament for the forthcoming year included the announcement of a Bill to establish a payment scheme for people diagnosed with mesothelioma as a result of workplace exposure to asbestos where their former employer or the...
