Case studies

Our personal injury team has recently secured an admission of liability from a private school in Surrey for a serious eye injury sustained by an 11 year old pupil while under their care.

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.