Case studies

A year ago, the clinical negligence team at Penningtons Manches Cooper achieved a successful settlement for an 11 year old boy who suffered brain damage arising from his mother’s antenatal care at St George’s Hospital in London.

Our client sustained a traumatic brain injury during their delivery and, in particular, during attempts to disimpact the fetal head.

Our client sustained a severe brain injury, which resulted in four-limb cerebral palsy, due to the shunting of blood between monochorionic twins in utero.

We have settled a claim for a male cyclist who was seriously injured after a collision in May 2022. The collision arose from a failure by the defendant’s insured driver to stop her vehicle at a junction.

We have recently settled a claim for the widower of a woman who sadly passed away because of failures in her medical treatment. The claim was against North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

We recently settled a claim for our client, whose baby daughter was born with Patau’s syndrome following clinical negligence by her GPs and the hospital antenatal clinic.

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.

A young woman has been awarded substantial damages following failings in her maternity care during and after labour at Royal Preston Hospital (part of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust).

Our medical negligence team has recently settled a claim for a woman who suffered a cardiac arrest after reporting severe chest pain to her GP.

We recently settled a claim for our client, a retired police officer in the Metropolitan Police Force, following the tragic and unexpected loss of his father while in hospital. We managed to negotiate a settlement after securing an admission of liability from the hospital trust, avoiding the need to start court proceedings.

We have successfully settled a claim for a young mother who sustained a second-degree tear during the birth of her baby, which was erroneously sutured with non-dissolvable suture material. Typically, such repairs would be stitched using dissolvable material.

We have recently settled a claim for a young woman against a private dermatological surgeon. The claim related to laser skin treatment for acne scarring, which caused irreversible damage to our client’s skin and had a significant psychological impact on her.