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A young girl who suffered brain damage at birth has been awarded £5.6 million in compensation in a High Court settlement. The girl, now 11 years old, was starved of oxygen at birth. Her mother had a placental abruption, which is where the placenta has...
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A man who suffered a serious spinal injury as a result of a mistaken hospital diagnosis in 2000 has won an undisclosed amount in compensation. Liam Careless, now 23, was 12 years old when he was taken to Tameside Hospital complaining of paralysis in his...
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The court has approved a compensation settlement of £900,000 for a boy whose leg had to be amputated shortly after he was born. Leo Ison, now six, was just three weeks old when doctors at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester told his parents that he would...
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A woman who was left permanently disabled after a routine hip operation went wrong has won over £100,000 in damages. Margaret Peabody, 51, was suffering from painful osteoarthritis and, in 2008, underwent an operation at the St Cross Hospital in Rugby...
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A young girl who was left severely brain damaged after complications during her birth has been awarded a seven-figure sum in compensation. Ella Franklin, now 11, was starved of oxygen when problems arose during her mother’s labour. As a result, she is...
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A woman who suffered life-changing injuries after doctors were slow to diagnose her childhood meningitis has been awarded a compensation settlement worth £4.3 million. Natalie Tuthill, now 21, was admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary with a serious...
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A boy from Weston-super-Mare has won £28,750 in compensation after doctors failed to diagnose acute appendicitis when he attended Bristol Children’s Hospital in 2005. Thomas Roberts, who was aged 11 at the time, was taken to the hospital by his...
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A woman who endured severe pain for many years after a bungled operation to remove painful corns has won £100,000 in compensation. The unnamed woman, known only as Mrs P, had the foot operation in 1983, when she was 32 years old. She continued to...
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Latex allergies have become increasingly common amongst people who have to wear gloves at work for health and safety reasons. The allergy is caused by the body becoming hypersensitive to proteins naturally present in latex and over-reacting to their...
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A girl has won a settlement of £575,000 after complications during her birth left her with a disabled arm. When Zahra Salim-Jaffer, now 16, was born, the nerves supplying blood to her shoulder and arm were damaged due to shoulder dystocia, a...
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A woman who has been left unable to have children after hospital staff failed to diagnose her life-threatening condition has won £160,000 in compensation. Joanne Connolly first attended hospital in May 2002, due to concerns regarding her pregnancy....
