Case studies

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.

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.

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

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