Lack of Informed Consent Leaves NHS Trust Liable for Paralysis
There is a risk with any surgical procedure and patients must be informed of those risks so they can make an informed decision on whether those risks outweigh the benefits of surgery.
Accident Claims
Liability For Accidents Caused By Animals – Court Of Appeal Test Case
Animal owners have the responsibility to ensure their animals do not pose a danger to the public. In the following case heard by the Court of Appeal, a bullock who caused a car accident left the farmer who had not done anything inherently wrong, still legally liable to pay compensation.
Costs of Care and Longer Lives Justify Big Clinical Negligence Award
The amount of money awarded in some clinical negligence claims can seem disproportionate to most people, but the following High Court case dispels this theory by demonstrating that people are living longer and care costs are ever rising.
Viola Player Deafened By Brass Section Wins Right To Compensation
A musician won a claim for compensation because his employers were found to have failed in their duty of care and he suffered irreparable hearing damage.
NHS Pays £870,000 Compensation after Mother’s Death in Childbirth
A Jehovah’s witness died while in the care of the NHS who it was deemed had failed in their duty of care. Her widower and her son of five was awarded £870,000 in the following case.
Insurers’ Liability in Clinical Negligence in Group Action Limited to 10 Million
In the following case, a medical company were trying to resolve a multi-million-pound claim for more than 700 operations that were completed by a breast surgeon and later deemed to be unnecessary, medically negligent or wholly inappropriate.
Manufacturer of Defective Motorbike Must Compensate Accident Victim
The consumer protection Act 1987 was used to bring a case by a surgeon who had sustained injuries due to the brakes of his motorbike seizing. He was awarded £40,000 in damages.
Steel Manufacturer Pays £1.5 Million Price of Health and Safety Breaches
The Court of Appeal heard a case where a steel manufacturer had been fine £1,985,000 for breeches in Health and Safety. These fines are intended as a warning to others that the matter was taken seriously.
NHS Pays £8.8 Million For Failure To Diagnose A Broken Back
Doctors are not invincible and will sometimes make errors. However, if they are seen as negligent then there should be compensation available.
Compensation For Victims Of Crime – Court Awards Victim
If you have been a victim of crime see a solicitor to check whether you can claim compensation.
Supreme Court Rules On Making Personal Injury Claim Actionable
There is always a challenge when deciding whether a personal injury claim can be considered through the legal system for compensation, and a recent Supreme Court hearing looked at this question.
Packaging Firm Fined £4 Million For Workplace Injury
Health and Safety is regarded as paramount and any breach will be punished as judges made clear in the following case where a worker lost his toes by industrial machinery. The packaging firm was fined a significant amount of money.
Grandfather Who Fell Into Castle Moat Due Compensation Payout
A man has been awarded damages after falling into a castle moat, there were no warning signs, and while there are those who disagree with the idea of a compensation culture, the law is there for a reason.
Lawyers Detective Work Results In £110,000 Payout For Family Of Asbestos Victim
To claim compensation for an asbestos related illness can be time-consuming and complex, which is why a solicitor can help and in the following case it was only due to the lawyer’s extensive work to discover the evidence that enabled a woman whose father had died to seek compensation and was awarded £110,000.
Hit By An Unnamed Driver? The Insurance Should Still Pay
The Court of Appeal heard a test case in which the victim of a hit and run car accident has won the right to sue an unnamed driver who caused her injuries and damaged her car so badly that it had to be written off. This decision has wider ramifications for personal injury lawyers and the car insurance companies.
Hearing Loss? – It Could be Industrial Deafness, Check it Out Now!
People often assume that losing their hearing is part of getting older as it deteriorates slowly and sufferers put up with it, however if you worked in a noisy environment you may consider it to be Industrial Deafness.
Manufacturer Wins Appeal Against £700,000 Fatal Accident Fine
Fines imposed on companies for health and safety breaches are meant to hurt, but a previously unblemished record and steps taken to remedy shortcomings can be powerful mitigation. In one case, a kitchen appliances manufacturer that was ordered to pay £700,000 following a fatal accident had the penalty more than halved by the Court of Appeal.
Mother Wins Record £9 Million Damages in ‘Wrongful Birth’ Case
In an extremely rare ‘wrongful birth’ case, a woman who would have terminated her pregnancy had she been aware that her son would be born gravely disabled has won a record £9 million in compensation from a negligent GP.
Hundreds of Victims of Incompetent Breast Surgeon Win £37 Million
Incompetent doctors can leave untold misery in their wake and that was certainly so in the case of one breast surgeon who let down hundreds of his patients.
‘Excessive Force’ Forceps Delivery Boy Due Millions from NHS
Giving birth is always a tense time for parents but they have a right to expect that, if a crisis develops, medical professionals will match up to their duty of care.