Client Stories
Angela’s Story: Incorrectly performed surgery
Following AB's Incorrectly performed laparoscopic gallbladder surgery she was left with to life changing bowel injuries.
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Alex’s* Story: High Value Head Injury Claim After a Devastating E-Bike Accident
Alex's life changed in seconds when a van pulled out from a side road and collided with him as he rode his electric bicycle along the main road. The collision left him with a catastrophic head injury and extensive musculoskeletal trauma, which would go on to form the basis of a serious head injury claim on his behalf.
Amelie’s story: Meningitis
Amelie was a lively one-year-old when she became ill. She was diagnosed with meningitis after suffering a stroke at home. Her parents describe how Amelie’s illness developed and changed their lives forever.
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Charlie’s Story: Delayed treatment of Sepsis
Despite his concerned parents taking Charlie to A&E twice in one day, Charlie’s sepsis went undiagnosed and untreated for 24 hours when he was just 16 months old. As a result he went into septic shock and suffered several cardiac arrests, leaving him with a hypoxic brain injury.
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Charlie’s Story: Periventricular Leukomalacia
Charlie was born premature developing spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, learning difficulties and epilepsy as a result of PVL.
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Clementine’s Story
Clementine’s cerebral palsy claim was closed by another firm who said it would not win. We took over the claim free of charge and obtained expert evidence and sent a letter of claim.
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Delayed Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
We obtained a full admission of liability from the Hospital Trust following a delayed diagnosis of breast cancer. This came after another firm had advised there were no prospects of ...x
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Double accident results in major orthopaedic injuries
Our client was hit by a car at a petrol station. The driver was talking to someone at the garage and then suddenly shot forward into our client. The defendant hit our client into the main road, where he was struck by a second vehicle
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Elan’s Story – Living her dream
Elan was born in a very poor condition after a cord prolapse at the end of her mother’s labour. Elan developed spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and needs a lot of help. She is determined and with help is living a great life.
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Delay in diagnosis of Colon Cancer
Despite receiving surgery for begin tumors on her bowel, a delayed diagnosis of bowel cancer and lack of follow up appointments, had devastating consequences for our client and her family
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Failure to recognise appendix cancer
John was told that an abdominal scan in May 2019 was normal. Two years’ later, he was diagnosed with cancer in the appendix. A re-look at the May 2019 scan confirmed that ...x
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Hypoxic Brain Injury During Birth and Hydrocephalus
We act for Luke* whose mother initially approached us for advice surrounding the neonatal management of her son. We identified significant concerns over her antenatal care and ambulance transfer to ...x
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Jack’s* Story: How a Second Opinion Secured Settlement in a HIE Claim against Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
For Jack's* family, the road to justice took nearly two decades. It began with a mistake in a set of maternity notes, passed through years of legal proceedings that were abandoned by another firm, and ended, finally, with a liability settlement against Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by our team. This is Jack's story.
Janaiya Ruth’s Story: Birth Injury
After complications during her pregnancy, Janaiya Ruth's mother sadly lost her baby girl due to negligence and missed opportunities.
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Jane’s Story: Brain Haemorrhage
Following a collapse at work, Jane was discharged with a diagnosis of stress, only to be re-admitted the next day after suffering a severe brain hemorrhage.
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JC’s Story- permanent damage caused by negligent prescription
Due to a negligent prescription, JC was faced with permanent bladder damage.
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Louise’s Story: Delayed diagnosis of Cauda Equina
After a number of appointments with her GP to investigate leg pain Louise attended with altered bowel habit. Her GP failed to refer her for immediate investigation leading to a 4 day delay in surgical release of her Cauda Equina and permanent nerve damage.
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Master X – 8 year old boy in freak accident causing a traumatic brain injury
Master X was 8 at the time of the accident. He was playing at a playground with his friends when a large telegraph-like pole broke and landed on his head, cause him to sustain a traumatic brain injury.
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Seven-Figure Medical Negligence Settlement for Failure to Advise on Pregnancy Reduction in Triplets
We cover the successful resolution of a highly unusual and complex claim for damages as a result of alleged substandard care provided by an NHS Hospital Trust. This ultimately led to the premature birth of our client, who went on to develop cerebral palsy.
Steven’s Story: Misdiagnosed Meningitis Highlights the Cost of a Two-Hour Delay
Steven was just 17-years-old when a delayed diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis changed his life forever. Two hours after being sent home by his GP despite red flag symptoms resulted in a permanent brain injury.
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Richard’s Story: Mismanagement of cancer treatment
Richard was treated with chemotherapy for follicular Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Negligent treatment led to a reactivation of hepatitis B, liver failure and his subsequent death. His widow tells his story.
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Tracey’s story: Misreporting of cervical smear
Tracey attended all smears tests that she was called to attend. Yet from 2009 onwards they were all misreported which resulted in her having a hysterectomy that would have been avoided with correct treatment.
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How We Helped Baby Molly’s Family Following a Missed Diagnosis of Meningitis
GP settles missed diagnosis of meningitis claim. How a delayed hospital referral resulted in severe and lifelong health complications — and how we helped.
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Multi-jurisdictional support for child with severe brain injury
Miss X, child, was involved in a high-speed road traffic accident on a motorway in France. She suffered a severe brain injury, among other injuries.
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Noel’s Story – serious injury after motorbike crash
Noel suffered life changing injuries in a road traffic accident on his motorbike during a commute to work. His injuries were catastrophic and included a complete spinal cord injury, leaving ...x
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Oliver’s Story: Cerebral Palsy – Birth Injury
We secured a multi-million-pound birth injury compensation settlement for Oliver, a child who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy following errors in the management of his mother's pregnancy and his birth. Find out what happened and how we were able to support Oliver and his family.
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Oliver’s story: Untreated sepsis
Oliver was a 4-year-old, healthy happy little boy. What was thought to be a simple tummy bug by hospital doctors turned in to fatal sepsis due to negligent medical care.
Orthopaedic Injuries following Road Traffic Accident
Our client was riding his bicycle when a car collided with him. He was taken by ambulance to the major trauma centre for the south east where he was diagnosed with extensive orthopaedic injuries, including a fractured vertebra and fractured pelvis.
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Orthopaedic injuries for client with a rare genetic condition
Mrs W had a rare genetic condition where she suffered from learning difficulties and was described as having the mental abilities of a young child.
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Pedestrian suffers severe traumatic brain injury after being hit by a car
Our client was hit by a car whilst crossing a road. He was taken by ambulance to the major trauma centre for the south east where it was revealed he had extensive orthopaedic injuries, including fractures of the left frontal and right temporal bone, and a severe traumatic bra
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Peter’s Story: Untreated Infection Results in Necrotising Fasciitis of the Abdomen
Peter's life was forever changed when a seemingly simple perianal abscess, left untreated, developed into life-threatening necrotising fasciitis of the abdomen, demonstrating the devastating consequences when bacterial infections are not promptly treated.
PH Client Story: 4th degree vaginal tear during childbirth
Incorrectly performed episiotomy and forceful forceps delivery caused life change 4th degree vaginal tears for our client during the birth of her child.
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Mary’s* Story: A Life Changed After PVL Brain Injury at Birth
We helped Mary's family family secure life-changing support following an avoidable PVL brain injury caused during birth.
PX’s Story: Cauda Equina Injury leading to neurological damage
Our client presented at the hospital with a history of back pain and some foot numbness. He had undergone two previous spinal surgeries, with limited benefit.
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Record breaking award for child following RTA
At the age of two, Miss X was involved in a head-on collision between two vehicles when the car travelling in the opposite direction had to swerve to avoid a cyclist, who had fallen off of his bike.
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Ryan’s story: Cerebral palsy claim
Ryan’s cerebral palsy claim was investigated and closed by other solicitors. We reopened it free of charge and by asking the right questions got a full admission and record highest compensation.
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Ryan’s Story: Mismanagement of pregnancy leading to cerebral palsy
Failure to manage high blood pressure in pregnancy leads to cerebral palsy. We obtained an early admission of liability from the Defendant Trust for a delay in delivery resulting in avoidable brain damage and a diagnosis of cerebral palsy.
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JZ’s Story : Delay in diagnosis of bladder cancer
After doctors ruled out the possibility of a tumor when our client presented worrying symptoms, they were later diagnosed with late stage bladder cancer.
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Seven-Figure Settlement for Avoidable Brachial Plexus Injury Caused by Shoulder Dystocia During Birth
Baby Abigail was diagnosed with Erb's palsy — a lifelong condition — after birth. We identified a series of failings in the care received by both mother and baby, and successfully proved that this injury was avoidable, resulting in a seven-figure compensation settlement.
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ST’s Story: Missed bowel perforation
ST was unaware of a bowel perforation that resulted in life changing injuries.
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VS’s Story: Misdiagnosis leads to unnecessary surgery
Due to a misdiagnosis of cancer, VS underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy and lymphadenectomy.
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Work-related accident
Our client was a lorry driver and scuba instructor. In 2008, an incident caused him to fall 4-5 feet from the cab of his lorry onto the ground on his back.
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