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Posted by Paul Rumley, Partner
Paul Rumley secured a £15.1 million settlement for a 25-year-old woman, L, who was brain damaged during her first 72 hours of life, as a consequence of a failure to diagnose and treat low blood sugar levels.
Posted by Hannah Blackwell, Associate
Our client suffered an eclamptic fit at the birth of her first child. She developed PTSD and continues to have on going psychological injury (four years after the event).
Posted by Sophie Angwin-Thornes, Associate
Sophie Angwin-Thornes recovered damages for K, a client who suffered an extravasation injury, and as a result she was left with an area of discoloration on her upper arm and suffered pain and weakness in the arm.
Posted by Ali Cloak, Senior Associate
Ali Cloak recovered damages for T, a client who lost the use of his right thumb after a failure to identify the extent of his fractured thumb and failing to provide him with the necessary treatment.
Posted by Ali Cloak, Senior Associate
Ali Cloak recovered five-figure sum for B, a 16 year old client who suffered a meniscal tear in her knee which went undiagnosed for nearly six weeks resulting in the need for a substantial operation and a likelihood of significant knee problems in later life.
Posted by Ali Cloak, Senior Associate
Ali Cloak recovered £30,000 for L, a client who suffered loss of mobility in her wrist as a result of a failure of medical staff to recognise that her broken wrist was not healing correctly .
Posted by Paul Rumley, Partner
Paul Rumley acted for C, a 19 year old man who received insufficient oxygen to the brain around the time of his birth due to a 29 minute negligent delay in his delivery. His twin brother was born uninjured.
Posted by Simon Elliman, Partner
Simon Elliman recovered £3.14 million for L, a female client who became tetraplegic as a result of a delay in diagnosing and treating a spinal abscess.
Posted by Simon Elliman, Partner
A client, represented by Simon Elliman, recovered damages of £825,000 for a claim involving delays in providing surgical treatment, leading to sepsis, partial amputation of both thumbs, two fingers and all ten toes, and ultimately a below knee amputation of her left leg.
Judith Leach of Royds Withy King, assisted the husband of a woman, J, in a claim against The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Posted by Tracy Norris-Evans, Partner
Tracy Norris-Evans, Partner at Royds Withy King, represented a woman, K, in a medical negligence claim against her GP.
Posted by Kerstin Scheel, Partner
Find out more about a recent case which has been settled for £250,000 after a woman contracted sepsis following the birth of her baby.