Case studies

We have recently settled a claim against Northwick Park Hospital for the alleged failure to appropriately diagnose and treat our client’s shoulder dislocation during his A&E attendance, causing a delay in treatment and avoidable nerve damage.

We have recently settled for £350,000 a long-running claim on behalf of a client whose developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) was missed by a health visitor during routine baby checks, with profound consequences that will affect our client for the rest of her life.

We have recently settled a claim for substantial damages against East Kent University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust following a knee replacement that left our client with significant pain and reduced function.

Our client, who was a keen golfer and fisherman, had what was intended to be a straightforward arthroscopy procedure to his right shoulder following the onset of pain.

We have settled a claim against Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust following a failure on two occasions to diagnose a patient’s dislocated right shoulder.

We have recently settled a claim against Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust after our client suffered a fractured cheek bone and, due to an administrative error, failed to undergo an emergency CT scan and subsequent surgery to fix the fracture.

We have settled a claim against Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for negligence by an orthopaedic surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital in London. The claim concerned our client’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The ACL is important for stability in the knee.

We have agreed the settlement of a claim against Royal Berkshire Hospital (part of Royal Berkshire NHS Trust) for an alleged failure to investigate and diagnose our client’s finger fracture appropriately, causing her prolonged and unnecessary pain during the period in which the fracture was undiagnosed, and resulting in the need for more invasive surgery.

We settled a claim for a client who suffered severe pain to the back of her calf while taking part in an aerobics class.

We settled a claim for a client who had undergone knee surgery due to ongoing pain in her knees. Subsequent investigations suggested that, in fact, the pain was not caused by a problem in her knees but actually stemmed from osteoarthritis in her hips. Following subsequent hip surgery, our client recovered well.

We have recently settled a claim for a client who suffered serious and permanent loss of sensation and function as a result of severe damage caused to his ulnar nerve during a routine elbow arthroscopy.

We have recently settled a claim on behalf of a client arising from the consequences of her local hospital’s failure to identify a left ankle fracture. The claim was very complex as our client also had an underlying connective tissue disease.