Case studies

Our personal injury team has secured an admission of liability from a private health club in Chelsea for serious dental injuries sustained by a nine year old girl while on their premises. 

The personal injury team at Penningtons Manches Cooper has recently negotiated the settlement of a claim for a client in his fifties who suffered a below knee amputation as a result of a road traffic accident.

Penningtons Manches Cooper's personal injury team has secured damages for a cyclist who was injured by an uninsured driver. Investigations revealed that the driver's policy had expired eight weeks before the accident.

Penningtons Manches Cooper's personal injury team has recently settled a claim on behalf of a passenger injured in a road traffic accident. The driver had recently purchased the car without obtaining valid insurance cover.

We have represented a woman who was injured when her vehicle was hit head-on by a drunk driver while she was taking her children home.

Our personal injury specialists are acting for a young architect who was driving his car when it was hit head-on by a motorist who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. As a result of his accident, he suffered multiple injuries.

Our client was involved in a head-on collision while travelling as a front seat passenger in a friend’s car when she was an 18 year old student. She suffered a severe traumatic brain injury as well as various physical injuries.

We have represented a woman who suffered serious injuries after slipping and falling in the communal area of an office building where she was attending a job interview.

Our personal injury team acted on behalf of a man who sustained life-changing injuries after falling from a hospital roof while in a confused and agitated state. He had attended the hospital’s Accident & Emergency department.

An elderly client was injured when she visited her local Sainsbury’s supermarket. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the store marked out a queueing system in its car park, in places using cord which was not adequately visible.

We have recently achieved a settlement for a failure to correctly interpret abnormal CTG traces and facilitate a discussion around preterm delivery, leading to the avoidable stillbirth of a client's child.

In November 2016, members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense were travelling to the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals on LaMia Flight 2933. That flight tragically crashed, killing almost all on board, and seriously injuring those that survived.