Case studies

We have secured a considerable financial settlement for our client who pursued a claim on behalf of her late husband, after a negligent delay in diagnosing his prostate cancer caused his premature death.

We have recently issued proceedings in a claim where our client, a man in his 40s, suffered a stroke during an embolisation procedure, which was required prior to surgery to remove a tumour from his neck.

Our clinical negligence team has achieved a settlement for the pain and suffering a client experienced, which was caused by a negligent delay in performing an appendicectomy.

We have recently achieved a settlement for unnecessary pain suffered by our client, as a result of physiotherapy manipulation causing a soft tissue injury to the lumbar spine.

We have successfully settled a claim for a client who suffered injury to her left ureter during a caesarean section. Our client had undergone a category two caesarean section due to obstructed labour.

Our claimant’s case was that a large piece of retained placenta was negligently missed during her daughter’s birth by caesarean section. The failure to detect and remove it resulted in continuing bleeding and pain over the next few days, an emergency return to theatre, a delayed discharge home from hospital, a very distressing readmission to hospital, and significant psychological symptoms.

Our clinical negligence team is currently looking into how a young child was so severely brain-injured after being transferred to hospital due to seizures. The claim relates to hospital failure to manage a significant seizure; to identify and act upon serious neurological deterioration including respiratory distress and decreased consciousness; to intubate in a timely fashion; and to avoid the hypoxic brain injury which the young child claimant suffered.

We have successfully settled a claim for our client who suffered a devastating haemorrhagic stroke due to delayed diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure.

A bereaved family has been awarded damages following admissions of liability from two NHS trusts after they failed to monitor and maintain appropriate anti-coagulation levels in a warfarin-dependent patient.

We have secured a considerable financial settlement for our clients who pursued a claim on behalf of their late mother relating to a delay in diagnosing and treating her ankle infection which caused her premature death.

This was a complicated claim on liability against both the deceased’s GP and the hepatology team at his local hospital. The claimants’ case was that the defendants had twice failed to arrange a hepatitis C blood test, leading to a failure to treat for hepatitis C and prevent the development of liver cancer.

We have recently settled a claim against a private surgeon for errors during surgery to remove our client’s gallbladder. Following the procedure, she was in significant pain and was not discharged home until almost a week later.