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Category Archives: Types of Claim
£40,000 Damages for Negligent Breast Reconstruction Following Cancer Treatment
Our client, a lady aged 52 from Gillingham, Kent underwent a lipo filling breast reconstruction surgery at the Spire St Saviours Hospital on the 1st August 2014. It was performed by Ms D Hassanally, General Surgeon specialising in Breast Reconstruction, and paid for privately.Continue reading this article
£100,000 recovered for failure to diagnose cancer of the parotid gland
We acted on behalf of the widow of a man (“C”) from Whitstable, Kent, who was aged 71 at the date of his death in June 2014.Continue reading this article
£39,000 for Failing to Treat Pericardial Effusion
Our client, a widow from New Romney in Kent, brought a claim arising out of the death of her elderly husband after he was discharged from the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford in February 2014 with a large pericardial effusion and died within hours at home.Continue reading this article
Facelift Negligence Claim Settles for £35,000
Our Client, a 69 year old woman from Hayling Island, Hampshire underwent a facelift funded on a private basis at the Spire Portsmouth Hospital on the 01.07.13 by a Consultant Maxillofacial, Plastic, Cosmetic, Reconstructive Surgeon. Continue reading this article
£250,000 recovered for brachial plexus injury
Our client, a 51 year old man from Sandwich, Kent, underwent a first rib resection for a suspected thoracic outlet syndrome under the care of Mr Rix and Mr Insall at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital on 25.11.14.Continue reading this article
£20,000 for delayed diagnosis and treatment of Achilles tendon rupture
Our client, a 37 year old woman from Herne Bay, Kent, suffered an injury to her left ankle whilst playing netball on 06.07.2014. Her left foot was immediately painful and she found that she could not weight bear.Continue reading this article
Million pound settlement for failure to perform laser eye surgery
Our client, a 51 year old man from near Maidstone, Kent, had already lost the sight in his right eye some years earlier when he began experiencing a reduction in vision in his left eye in June 2011.Continue reading this article
£100,000 recovered for inappropriate prescription of antibiotic
Our client, a 63 year old man from Gravesend, Kent, underwent a total knee replacement (TKR) on a private basis at the BMI Somerfield Hospital in Maidstone and subsequently developed an infection. The infection itself occurred non-negligently.Continue reading this article
£35,000 recovered for temporary colostomy
Our client, a 55 year old woman from Folkestone, Kent, suffered a diathermy injury to her small bowel during the course of a laparoscopic appendectomy, in May 2015, at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford (a hospital managed by the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (“EKH”)).Continue reading this article