4th May 2023 – Our client Mr T from Whitstable instructed Fairweathers after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. His grievance was that he had attended Accident & Emergency at Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate 11 months before his diagnosis and a chest x-ray taken at the time failed to trigger appropriate investigations. Very sadly Mr T died shortly after instructing us and his widow carried on with the claim in order to obtain answers on his behalf.Continue reading this article
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£140,000 Compensation for serious Road Traffic Accident injuries
4th May 2023 – Our client Mr K from Herne Bay was involved in a serious road traffic accident in February 2020 when he was involved in a rear end collision whilst parked on the verge. Continue reading this article
Inquest into the deaths of Samantha Mulcahy and Kimberly Sampson begins
19th April 2023 – The inquest into the deaths of the two young mothers who died of disseminated herpes simplex virus two months apart have begun today at the Shepway Centre, Maidstone before Assistant Coroner Catherine Wood. Continue reading this article
£12,000 Agreed For Failure to Issue Prescription
£75,000 in Damages for Head and Neck Cancer Fatality
8th February 2023 – Our client Mr J instructed this firm as Executor of the Estate of the deceased who sadly died from head and neck cancer in 2019.
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Fairweathers’ 1 st Aiders!
25th January 2023 – All staff attended an Emergency 1 st Aid at Work course delivered in-house by The British Red Cross.
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£100,000 awarded for failure to prevent fall in St Thomas’ Hospital, London causing femur and humerus fractures.
6th January 2023 – Mrs T, a 73 year old woman from Margate, was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy following a collapse. Prior to this she had been fit and well, was completely independent and was a full time carer for her elderly father.Continue reading this article
The Great Fairweathers Bake Off for Macmillan
21st December 2022 – Here at Fairweathers, we have once again held our annual Fairweathers Bake Off in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support’s Coffee Morning.
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Damages recovered for botched mastectomy performed by surgical Professor negligently recruited by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
8th December 2022 – Our client, Mrs P from Dover, Kent found a lump in her right breast in May 2019 which was investigated and found to be a Grade 3 pleomorphic lobular carcinoma without metastases.
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£113,000 in damages for delayed diagnosis of Malignant Melanoma
6th December 2022 – Our client Mr D from mid-Kent came to us because of his delayed diagnosis of malignant melanoma whilst under the care of West Malling Group Practice, specifically Dr Carter and Nurse Witmond.
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