Case studies

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.

We have settled a claim for a young girl in relation to negligent treatment provided during her mother’s labour, which resulted in brain damage.

Our clinical negligence team has achieved a high-value settlement for a young girl with cerebral palsy following a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice.

Penningtons Manches Cooper’s medical negligence team has recently settled a claim for a woman who suffered complications caused by the insertion of a transvaginal tape.

We have settled a tragic case involving the sudden and unexpected death of our client’s husband from undiagnosed acute aortic dissection (AAD) whilst in hospital.

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

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