Pages On: Head and Brain Injuries

Girl awarded £6.65 million following tragic car crash

Posted: 4 April 2016

Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death

A young girl who was left disabled following a car crash in 2002 has been awarded £6.65 million in compensation. The child, one of four siblings, was travelling in a car driven by her mother when the accident took place. Tragically, her eldest sibling was killed and another sustained a brain injury. The other child was left with serious orthopaedic problems, and the claimant was left paraplegic due to severe and complete spinal cord injuries. At the time of the accident the claimant was a child. In fighting for her case, her lawyers considered…

Ambulance crash injures several passengers

Posted: 2 March 2016

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents

A critically ill two-year-old and her mother have been injured when the ambulance transporting them to hospital left the M40 motorway and crashed down an embankment. The child was being rushed from Warwick Hospital to Horton Hospital in Banbury after suspicions were raised at Warwick that she was suffering from meningitis. Her family have stated that the child was not strapped in. The vehicle, which was found by a passing motorist, left the motorway near Banbury in Oxfordshire. It was thought to have been travelling at high speed when it hurtled…

Beauty treatment causes stroke

Posted: 10 December 2015

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Medical Negligence, Negligent Cosmetic Surgery

Following a beauty treatment whilst on holiday in Wales five years ago, 51 year-old Elizabeth Hughes from Gosport, suffered a life-changing stroke. The stroke left her with a weakness in one of her arms, as well as problems with her balance resulting in her being forced to retire from her job as a nurse at Gosport’s Royal Hospital Haslar. Mrs Hughes collapsed several days after having a facial at Eastwell Manor and was rushed to hospital where it was discovered that a dissection to the carotid artery was the cause of her…

Pensioner wins £1m compensation following car accident

Posted: 1 December 2015

Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Leg Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents

A pensioner who was left brain damaged following a car accident has been awarded £1m in compensation. 71-year-old James Laurie was hit by a Volvo nearby his house three years ago whilst he was recovering from a stroke. The accident left him with two broken legs, a head injury and severe brain damage. Mr Laurie now suffers with lapses in his memory, concentration and motivation, as well as a sight problem. The brain injuries were so severe that he has been unable to leave care since the accident. Three years…

Brain damaged cyclist wins crash compensation

Posted: 17 November 2015

Posted in: Bicycle Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents

A 31-year-old cyclist has been awarded injury compensation after a lorry knocked her off her bicycle on her way to work. Mary Bowers, who had been a successful journalist prior to the accident, now requires around-the-clock care and is only minimally conscious. Ms Bowers suffered a severe brain injury and multiple fractures in the accident, after becoming trapped under the wheels of the four-tonne lorry in east London in November 2011. Ms Bowers had been a journalist with The Times before the crash. It was heard in London’s High Court…

Man suffers serious head injury from falling sofa

Posted: 2 November 2015

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents

A man has suffered a severe head injury after a falling sofa hit him as it was pushed from a window in London’s busy tourist district. The man, who remains unnamed, had been walking down the street when the incident happened near the W London Leicester Square hotel in central London. A witness of the incident reported that the sofa “came flying over the top of the hotel’s flat roof” and plummeted to the ground, hitting a smartly dressed man who was walking by at the time. The London Ambulance…

Suspended prison sentence following car crash

Posted: 20 October 2015

Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents

A man has been sentenced to a suspended prison sentence after his dangerous driving caused a car accident that left a teacher critically injured. 78-year-old John King pleaded not guilty to the sentence that his dangerous driving caused an accident, claiming that a medical condition resulted in his loss of consciousness during the approach to the roundabout where the accident happened. Despite pleading not guilty, the jury convicted him at Ipswich Crown Court in August and he was sentenced to a two year suspended prison sentence. The collision happened on…

Young boy's head scarred by injury in Tesco

Posted: 24 July 2015

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents

A three-year-old boy, Kayden Eweje, has been left scarred for life after an automatic door at Tesco closed on his face. The boy’s father, Ola Eweje, had been holding his son’s hand when the doors closed on his face upon entering the supermarket in Millstrood Road. Mr Eweje reported the incident to Tesco bosses, saying that his son is now scared of walking through doors and has been left with severe scarring on his head. He has demanded an apology and a payout. Supermarket bosses told Mr Eweje that a…

£8million payout after 7-year legal battle for brain damaged baby

Posted: 24 June 2015

Posted in: Birth Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Medical Negligence

The family of a seven-year-old boy who suffered serious brain damage as a baby have finally won compensation following a 7-year legal battle. The child, who remains anonymous, contracted jaundice as a baby. Medical staff at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in south-east London, however, failed to recognise the symptoms, allowing it to spread and develop into the rare illness kernicterus. Kernicterus is an illness that affects less than one in every 100,000 babies in Britain, caused by untreated jaundice. It can cause severe brain damage, and even death. It…

Daughter wins compensation for mistreatment father experienced in care home

Posted: 15 June 2015

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Medical Negligence

A woman has been awarded over £3,600 in compensation after her father suffered a serious head injury whilst in care. 43-year-old Tracy Betteridge sued the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust after a health care assistant used physical restraint against her father, 76-year-old Ivor Betteridge, who then fell and seriously injured his head. Mr Betteridge was being treated for severe dementia at the Fiennes Centre in Hightown Road, Banbury, after his wife, and carer, Georgina died of breast cancer in 2012. He sustained the head injury in February 2013 and died…

Multimillion-pound payout to brain damaged siblings

Posted: 14 April 2015

Posted in: Birth Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Medical Negligence

Following serious errors in the delivery of brother and sister Natasha and Patrick Jackson by the Sharoe Green Hospital in Preston, an “unprecedented” compensation payout of around £13m has been made. Natasha, 23, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a result of errors made during her delivery. She has been awarded £7m. Her brother Patrick, 22, received a £6m payout in 2010 for the same condition, also caused by errors at the same hospital. Patrick was diagnosed with the condition aged 18 months. Their mother, Paula McKay described how she was “devastated” to learn…

Woman wins compensation following childhood trauma

Posted: 7 March 2015

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Public Place Accidents

A woman has finally been awarded compensation after nearly drowning as a child, which left her with a severe brain injury. The accident happened when Annie Woodland was only 10 years old during a swimming lesson at school. Neither her teacher nor the lifeguard realised that she was struggling in the swimming pool, which caused her to be drowning for far longer than she should have been. Ms Woodland, now 24, suffers with the effects of the brain damage she sustained in the accident. The accident happened when Ms Woodland was…

Bakery to compensate worker £4k after being struck in the head

Posted: 30 October 2014

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A Premier Foods bakery in Trent Vale is to pay one of its workers £4,000 in compensation after he suffered a serious injury. Jonathan Wain was a mixing bay operator at the factory, and as part of weekend cleaning duties he had been asked to clean one of the ‘cages’ in the mixing bay. Whilst he was carrying out this task, a metal pipe fell and struck him on the head. It had been part of the cage but was not securely fixed in place. Mr Wain suffered a serious head injury…

Mother awarded £2.25m compensation for son's cerebral palsy

Posted: 9 October 2014

Posted in: Birth Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Medical Negligence

After a woman’s son was born prematurely after she was fitted with a contraceptive device during pregnancy, she has been awarded £2.25 million in compensation. Cian Bowen, now seven-years-old, was born with severe brain damage and now suffers with cerebral palsy even though his intellect is still intact. Ms Hughes’s case arose from the admitted negligence of the doctor who fitted her with an intrauterine device (IUD) or coil in March 2007 while she was fourteen weeks pregnant. After she was fitted with the contraceptive device she suffered from bleeding and…

Prison officer's ear bitten off by inmate

Posted: 1 August 2014

Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A prison officer at HMP Nottingham had part of his ear bitten off by a prisoner earlier this week; only a few months after the authorities raised staff safety concerns. The incident happened on Wednesday at around 09:30. An ambulance was called to the Category B prison immediately after the accident happened, which transported the officer to the Queen’s Medical Centre. Having been discharged from the hospital, the officer will continue to receive treatment. In April of this year Nottingham Prison was branded “dangerous” as a result of overcrowding, budget cuts and…

Man in Ireland awarded £6m in compensation after car accident

Posted: 26 July 2014

Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents

A man in Northern Ireland is due to receive around £6million in compensation after he suffered life-changing injuries in a car accident. The 25-year-old – who cannot be named for legal reasons – sustained brain injuries and numerous broken bones in the accident. He had only been a passenger in the car when it swerved into a field in 2007. The driver of the car was jailed following the accident for causing injury through dangerous driving. The case has been noted as one of the largest cases of its kind, with damages only…

£4.5m payout to 10-year-old for brain injury at birth

Posted: 31 January 2014

Posted in: Birth Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Medical Negligence

Colchester Hospital has agreed to payout £4.5m to a young girl who suffered a “catastrophic brain injury” shortly after being born at the hospital. It was heard at The High Court that numerous mistakes were made during Samantha Singleton-Parkes’s birth in December 2003. The young girl now suffers from cerebral palsy and will spend the rest of her life requiring around the clock care. Samantha, who now lives with her family in Brightlingsea in Essex, is due to receive a lump sum and annual payments. Even though the accident happened 10 years…

Network Rail to be sentenced after worker death

Posted: 11 September 2013

Posted in: Employer Negligence, Head and Brain Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries, Wrongful & Accidental Death

Network Rail has pleaded guilty to a health and safety breach after 64-year-old Malcolm Slater died while repairing power lines. Mr. Slater had been working on the line between Norwich and London in 2008 when he fell 15ft (4.5m) onto the tracks below. The court heard that Network Rail had failed to provide workers with safe equipment, as previous overloading had weakened the hoist that they were using. Network Rail had already admitted to similar failures in past hearings, as the equipment provided for lifting their employees was unsafe.   The court heard…

Eye Injury Claims

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Personal Injury

If you have suffered an eye injury, you may be entitled to claim compensation. If you describe the circumstances of your injury to the Bradford personal injury solicitors** they will be able to assess the strength or your claim and ultimately tell you whether or not you have a case. Eye injuries can be serious enough to lead to complete or partial blindness, or can only cause temporary discomfort. Eye injuries can be caused by many different factors. Examples include glass fragments entering the eyes as the result or a…

Head Injury Accident Claims

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Personal Injury

You probably do not need to be told that if you suffer an injury to the head the results could be severe. Accordingly an injury to the head, regardless of whether it is minor or major, could result in a large compensation claim. Head wounds can result in both physical and / or mental injuries and compensation can be claimed for both. Compensation for Head Injuries The following are some examples of when you could make a head injury compensation claim: Injury sustained following a road traffic accident Slips, trips…