13th November 2018 – We were instructed by Mrs H, of Maidstone, to investigate a claim in clinical negligence, following the death of her husband J at Maidstone Hospital in January 2015.Continue reading this article
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£167,500 for Substandard Orthopaedic Surgery to Remove Exostoses

8th Nov 2018 – Our Client, Ms S, from Ashford, Kent came to see us following surgery to remove exostoses (a protuberance of bone) in her right leg in September 2013.Continue reading this article
£280,000 recovered for failure to operate promptly

28th Sept 2018 – Our client, a 46-year-old woman from Ashford, Kent, experienced the sudden onset of severe abdominal pain and sickness in the early hours of 31.08.03 and was taken to hospital by ambulance. Following some tests, she was diagnosed with constipation and a urinary tract infection and discharged home.Continue reading this article
£135,000 recovered for psychological injuries caused by delayed birth trauma

28th Sept 2018 – Our client, a 38-year-old woman from Canterbury, Kent, suffered significant psychological injuries in consequence of a traumatic birth of her second child.
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Maidstone Hospital admits Negligence during labour causing Cerebral Palsy at birth

8th Aug 2018 – Our client, Ms K (aged 38) from Maidstone, Kent, gave birth to her son, JT, at Maidstone Hospital on 18 August 2010.Continue reading this article
£17,000 recovered in retained placenta case

1st Aug 2018 – Our client, Ms M from Dover, brought a claim against East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust after retained products of conception were missed after she gave birth to her first child in May 2015.Continue reading this article
£50,000 recovered for failure to diagnose laryngeal cancer

10th July 2018 – Our client, a 50 year old woman (at the date of the negligence) from Ashford, Kent, found a lump in the left side of her neck and was suffering with a dry cough so she attended on her GP and was referred to the ENT department at the William Harvey Hospital.Continue reading this article
£140,000 for failing to diagnose lung cancer

Our client, Mr M, a widower from Folkestone, brought a claim arising out of the death of his wife who sadly died of lung cancer on 10th June 2012.Continue reading this article
£45,000 recovered for failure to treat eye injury

Our client, a 47 year old woman from Newhaven, East Sussex, accidentally squirted wood glue (a white PVA-type glue) into her eyes on 29.12.12. She immediately washed out her eyes, removing all of the glue from the left eye, but being unable to do so from the right eye. She therefore attended the Sussex Eye Hospital, arriving within 1 hour of the incident occurring.
BBC Radio Kent discusses breast screening scandal with Fairweathers’ solicitor Kate Kennell

Fairweathers’ Solicitor Kate Kennell was interviewed at length this morning, by BBC Radio Kent, about the national breast screening blunder whereby 450,000 women, aged between 68 and 71, were not sent appointments for routine breast cancer screening by mammogram, from 2009 onwards.Continue reading this article
