Case studies

We have recently settled a claim against an NHS trust for a delay in diagnosing and operating on ovarian torsion. The patient was admitted to hospital with severe abdominal pain on her left side, vomiting and haematuria.

We have successfully settled a claim for a client who suffered injury to her left ureter during a caesarean section. Our client had undergone a category two caesarean section due to obstructed labour.

This was a complicated claim on liability against both the deceased’s GP and the hepatology team at his local hospital. The claimants’ case was that the defendants had twice failed to arrange a hepatitis C blood test, leading to a failure to treat for hepatitis C and prevent the development of liver cancer.

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.

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.

We have successfully settled a claim for our client who suffered a devastating haemorrhagic stroke due to delayed diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure.

A bereaved family has been awarded damages following admissions of liability from two NHS trusts after they failed to monitor and maintain appropriate anti-coagulation levels in a warfarin-dependent patient.

We have recently settled a claim against a private surgeon for errors during surgery to remove our client’s gallbladder. Following the procedure, she was in significant pain and was not discharged home until almost a week later.

We have secured a considerable financial settlement for our elderly client who suffered permanent loss of sight from both eyes as a result of admitted negligence at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre.

Our clinical negligence team has secured a six-figure settlement for a client following unnecessary orthopaedic surgery to remove an asymptomatic tibial screw.

We have secured an admission of breach of duty and causation from St Albans Hospital that it failed to properly assess a patient and perform an MRI scan. This led to a delay in diagnosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES).

We have achieved significant compensation for our client who underwent privately performed eye surgery at the Shelburne Hospital and suffered a retinal detachment and complete loss of functional vision from her dominant left eye.