Case studies

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.

This claim related to a hospital’s failure to manage a significant seizure, to identify and act upon serious neurological deterioration, including respiratory distress and decreased level of consciousness, to intubate in a timely fashion, and to avoid the hypoxic brain injury a young child claimant suffered. 

Our clinical negligence team has settled a compensation claim for a young woman who experienced a ruptured aneurysm which caused her to suffer a brain haemorrhage four years later. It was our client’s case that if the NHS trust responsible for her care had followed up her intracranial aneurysm, which was detected incidentally on a CT scan, it would have been monitored and treated with endovascular surgery, and would not have ruptured.

Our clinical negligence specialists represented a young woman who had a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, particularly in her left fallopian tube, and who attended hospital with a suspected ectopic pregnancy.

Our medical negligence team has recently settled a claim for a young man following a missed diagnosis of sepsis. He attended his GP, feeling very unwell with back pain to the point of barely being able to walk.

We have recently settled a very complex compensation claim for a brain-injured young child.

We have recently settled a claim for a woman who was widowed at a young age when her husband died from a pulmonary embolism after orthopaedic surgery.