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Claiming Insurance After an Assault: The Victim’s Point of View

About 3 years ago I was assaulted by a drunk outside of a nightclub in my home town. It was an entirely unprovoked attack that nearly killed me. I was hospitalised, and required minor surgery. This all took place two days before I was to return to University.

I couldn’t make it back on time, and my work suffered. In between visits by the police over the next couple of months, I slipped into a depression. Luckily, my attacker was caught and there was substantial evidence to see him sentenced. This left me in a position to claim compensation.

I decided to hire a solicitor from Pannone (a firm I was recommended by a friend) and they successfully won compensation for me. As well as winning the compensation they provided services that helped me emotionally too. To be honest I was hesitant at first to make a claim – I felt bad when I shouldn’t have done – but they were very good at explaining to me why I should.

That’s the reason I’m writing this: for the folk who feel al little bad about making a claim. maybe you’ve been injured at work, but you love the company; maybe you think making a claim would ruin your reputation. Whatever you might be feeling, here are a few reasons why you should make a claim:

1) It’s not just about the actual injury:

As I mentioned earlier, I missed a lot of time from University. This damged my grade that year, and ultimately, my grade for my entire course. Even using the ‘mitigating circumstances’ clause in my course I didn’t achieve the grade I know I would have been able to, had I not been injured. This isn’t just something that affected me at University, this is something that is going to affect me for the rest of my life.

Basically, some workplaces will not hire me because of the quality of my degree. This isn’t my fault. This is my attackers fault. Even if my injury was slight (which it wasn’t) it might still have lasting affects. Compensation can’t entirely make up for this, but it can help.

2) If somebody screwed up once, they’ll probably do it again, unless you show them why they shouldn’t:

That brief description doesn’t explain this that great, so I’ll put it another way: If you work for a company that washes the floors every Monday morning (and the guy  forgets to put the sign out) and you slip, and then do nothing about it, they probably won’t change the way (and time) they clean that floor. If you make a claim, they will have to analyse why it happened and make a change (such as doing it last thing on a Friday after everyone has left).

Making a claim is not always about doing justice to yourself – sometimes it’s about doing the right thing for everybody.

3) It gives you a sense of self-worth:

One of the worst things about being in the position to make a claim is that you are usually a victim, and it a lot of cases you probably won’t be feeling that great about yourself. I know I wasn’t. Making a claim can make you feel a bit better about yourself, especially when you start using phrases like “I deserve this”. Positive affirmations, and really believing them, go a long way to helping emotional recovery.

So there you have it: the reasons I really think you should make a claim. I hope that this helps some of you out there. I know this advice helped me.

New Woman Loses Personal Injury Lawsuit After Receiving Spinal Surgery

This article was written by Andy Sampson of Price Benowitz LLP.

A setback for any personal injury lawyer is to have a case completely tossed out of court by a high court justice. This is exactly what happened recently in the closely watched case of Mangione vs Jacobs in Queens County, New York.

Susanna Mangione filed a personal injury lawsuit in 2010 claiming that she suffered spinal injuries from a car accident in which she was involved. Mangione did not undergo the independent medical examinations (IMEs) that were ordered by the court but chose instead to have elective spinal surgery.

Charles J. Markey, Supreme Court Justice of Queens County, ruled on July 31, 2012, that Mangione spoiled crucial evidence that defendants in her lawsuit needed to independently verify her contention that her alleged injuries were the result of the car accident. Therefore, the defendants could not effectively argue their case.

Further, Mangione could not prove her claim that the accident caused her serious injury because of her surgery.

Mangione said in her complaint that she was riding in a taxi on Dec. 2, 2009, in Queens County when the cab collided with another vehicle. Mangione claimed that the taxi driver was “talking out loud,” which indicated to her that he was using a cell phone while driving with either an earpiece or a hands-free device at the time of the collision.

Mangione claimed she hurt her shoulder and back in the accident. She later filed suit against the taxi driver, Glener Simbana, the taxi company, Ramabel Limo Inc, and Jules Jacobs, the driver of the other car.

Markey said in his ruling that the most important issue, the IMEs, were raised by Jacobs’ attorneys in their motion to dismiss. Jacobs’ lawyers argued that Mangione had previously filed personal injury lawsuits and failed to go to court-ordered IMEs. In one lawsuit, Mangione said she was riding on a bus on Nov. 17, 2008, when it came to a sudden stop and she fell down, hurting her shoulder and back. Defendant lawyers in the case against the cab company and Jacobs said they asked Mangione for her medical records from her suit against the bus company but the documents were not produced, even though she had the same lawyers in both cases.

According to Markey’s ruling, three court orders were issued for Mangione to undergo an IME and Mangione ignored all three orders. When an IME for Feb. 22, 2012, was rescheduled to March 7, Mangione decided to have elective spinal surgery on Feb. 27.

The judge strongly disagreed with Mangione’s decision to have spinal surgery, writing that her action took away the means for defendants’ doctors and attorneys to trace any connection between her alleged injuries from the bus accident in 2008 to the taxi cab accident in 2009. The surgery, along with Mangione’s “intentional thwarting” of the three court orders to have IMEs, warranted the sanction of dismissing the lawsuit, Markey ruled.

Although this case happened in New York, a car accident lawyer in Virginia, Maryland, or Washington, D.C., could learn from the outcome of this lawsuit by insisting that clients be willing to provide documented evidence of claims of physical suffering. It would also be beneficial for an injury lawyer to encourage his clients to follow court orders, especially when it is the lawyer’s intention to win the case.

Cell Phone Records & Car Accident Cases

The following is a guest personal injury law blog post regarding a recent Connecticut Superior Court case concerning cell phone records and car accident cases. Further personal injury guest blogging welcome via the blue button.

Cell Phone Records & Car Accident CasesIn a recent Connecticut Superior Court case, a plaintiff requested permission to seek the defendant’s cell phone records for the hour leading up to a rear end collision. Connecticut rules of practice allow for a standard set of discovery, which does not include cell phone records.

The party seeking the discovery has the burden of proving that the standard forms are inappropriate or inadequate. By law, “Unless such inappropriateness or inadequacy is duly established, the Court lacks the power to approve additional requests for production, even if such requests are properly limited to relevant, non-privileged material.”

The judge denied the request, insisting that the plaintiff failed to prove there was sufficient grounds to support the request for the cell phone records. There was no evidence to support the idea that the defendant was using her cell phone at the time of the collision. She even testified at her deposition that she did not use her cell phone at all on the particular drive that ended in the rear end collision.

The court did not say it would be impossible to obtain cell phone records in any automobile crash case, and left open the possibility that plaintiffs in other cases could obtain the records if they could provide an adequate reason for their production.

If the Super Court judges thought that cell phone records were appropriate disclosures in every case, they would have been included on the standard requests for production, as they do for blood alcohol test results and surveillance recordings.

With the increased use of texting, emailing, and interacting on social media through cell phones, it is likely that cell phone records will provide relevant information in auto accident crash cases.

Auto accident attorneys in Bridgeport CT can help with your case. Contact Timothy O’Keefe today at 860-880-0835, located at 21 Oak Street, Suite 208, Hartford CT 06106.

SRA Concerned over Continued Whiplash Injury Compenation Claims

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has recently spoke out to a major national news publication in regards to the referral fee bans being implemented to reduce the number of whiplash injury compensation claims and other types of personal injury cases. The decision on the fees ban was due to the excessive volume of whiplash injury claims earning the United Kingdom the title of whiplash capital of Europe. One of the core components of the rise in whiplash injury compensation claims was a small number of semi-legally run claims companies setting up shop in order to sidestep Information Commissioners Office (ICO) regulations, gaining business by sending unsolicited text messages and referring claims to solicitors. The referral fee ban is aimed at stopping the problem at its root cause.

However, The SRA, which is responsible for regulating over 120,000 solicitors firms in both England and Wales, has said that the changes may not affect the situation in the desired fashion. Executive director, Richard Collins has stated that “We will do everything we can to make the ban effective in terms of stopping the payment of referral fees in these cases but I think the bigger question will be whether actually enforcing that ban properly, as we will aim to do, will actually have the wider social impact the government may be looking for.”.
image shows scales to represent justice in this whiplash injury compensation storyThe legalisation of referral fees was initiated by the Labour government back in 2004. The boom in whiplash injury compensation claims and other personal injury cases happened as a result of some people finding ways to sidestep ICO regulations, meaning that over the course of have a 10 year period, whiplash injury claims and personal injury claims made by UK inhabitants had doubled to £14 billion in the decade.

One of the first causes of concern were the astronomical increases in the average driver’s motor insurance premiums, which have now reached an average cost of £1,000 per for the first time ever. Councils, businesses and hospitals were left to pay off legal bills totalling several million pounds. The concern is that companies are able to apply for alternative business structures (ABS). The idea is that this way, the referral fee bands will be sidestepped and many claims management firms will carry on doing in whiplash injury compensation claim cases as usual in a way which is perfectly legal and compatible with the referral fee ban. The real way to close down the cowboys is the stop them making unsolicited text messages and coercing people into whiplash injury compensation claims. This way, they won’t have any business to refer. You can read more at The Telegraph , here.

Jim Loxley is a Director at trusted compensation claims specialist, My Compensation

How to proceed with a defective hip implant lawsuit

Defective hip implant lawsuits became quite popular in the U.S. after in 2010 one of the most popular medical device manufacturing companies recalled two of its hip implants, the Depuy ASR™ XL Acetabular System and the ASR™ Hip Resurfacing System. Considering that the above mentioned devices were in use since 2004, there are a considerable number of patients who received the implants. As the manufacturing company admitted that its products were defective, the patients can expect to have problems before the 15 years period during which hip implants are designed to function properly.

The recalled devices were metal-on-metal hip implants, meaning that both parts of the device were made of metal. The human hip works by moving inside a basket shaped hole, named the acetabulum. By doing so it allows individuals to perform a wide range of movements. The implants are supposed to work similarly. However as two metal objects rube against each other tiny fragments can detach. The debris can affect the surrounding tissues and even different organs or nerves, in case it enters the blood stream. Patients can experience difficulty moving, constant pain or discomfort in the hip area or swelling. In case metal ions damaged the nerve system, affected individuals can have problems with vision or hearing. In case the heart has been affected, the symptoms might consist in chest pain or shortness of breath.

Another reason why the devices were withdrawn from the market is early implant failure. If normal movements cause the implant to become loose, the consequences can be extremely serious. The surrounding bone tissue will be affected and in severe case even hip fracture can occur. That is why if a patient experiences any problems with his implant during the first years after initial surgery, he or she should consult a doctor without further delay. Unfortunately the only way of treating a defective hip implant is by removing and replacing it with a new device. That involves another even more painful surgery with a longer recovery period. So besides pain and suffering, patients will have additional medical bills to pay, will need long term medical care and will be unable to work during recovery, resulting in more financial losses. So it is normal for them to be interested in obtaining financial compensation for their losses. Defective hip implant lawsuits are filed exactly for that.

Interested patients should know that in order to have a valid claim, they do not have to undergo a revision surgery. They only have to prove that the device caused them some kind of injury. Defective hip implant lawsuits are product liability lawsuits. They are always difficult to win, but the compensations can be consistent. The first step in winning such a legal action is to contact an experienced personal injury lawyer as soon as worrying signs occur. The attorney can advice his client how to gather important evidence regarding all medical procedures he will have to perform. The first problem to clarify is whether the patient has been implanted with one of the withdrawn devices. In order to know that, he should ask for his medical records and provide a copy to his attorney. If the client was unlucky enough to have such an implant, he can expect further complications. All symptoms and the results of medical tests should be documented and carefully preserved. Medical bills and all additional costs should also be kept. The injured patient should also be careful not to sign any agreements with the implant manufacturing company. Such an action will most likely compromise his chances of recovering damages through a lawsuit. In order to file a valid claim, plaintiffs will have to prove three distinctive facts: that the implanted device was defective, that the device caused them some type of injury and that the injury resulted in financial losses. If there is evidence for all that, the lawsuit can be filed and victims can receive compensation for medical bills, long term medical care, lost wages, pain and suffering, attorney’s fees and other related costs

Emotional Distress Claims for Pet Deaths in the US

One US Court Denies Emotional Distress Claim for Death of Pet, Another Awards $65,000

The highest court in New Jersey has refused to recognize a pet owner’s claim for emotional distress after she witnessed the violent death of her beloved dog.

Plaintff Joyce McDougall was walking her maltipoo Angel when it was attacked by a large, mixed-breed dog which grabbed the smaller dog by the neck and shook it to death.

McDougall sued the large dog’s owner, claiming that Angel had been her close companion for years and that the loss of the dog was especially hard on her since her children had left for college and she and her husband had separated.

In the case of McDougall v. Lamm, the court said:

Although we recognize that many people form close bonds with their pets, we conclude that those bonds do not rise to the level of close familial relationship or intimate, marital-type bond.

The court refused to further expand to pets the doctrine of the Portee v. Jaffee case, which allowed a suit for emotional distress to be brought by a person who witnessed the death of a family member.  The doctrine had previously been expanded to those who witnessed the deaths of intimate acquaintances, such as roommates, but not to a plaintiff who saw a neighbor’s child torn to death by a circus animal.

The New Jersey Justice noted that “not even all humans are engaged in a relationship that is sufficiently close to support such an award.”

A Superior Court judge had awarded McDougall $5,000 for the loss of the dog but dismissed her emotional-distress claim.

The Appellate Division affirmed:

While we can understand plaintiff’s considerable attachment to her dog, and the distress she suffered at witnessing such an event, we agree with the trial judge’s conclusion that plaintiff’s damages are limited to the replacement cost of the dog.

New Jersey, like some other US states, treats pets as more than simply property.  A 1988 case allowed a pet owner to recover not only the pet’s replacement cost but also the veterinary expenses incurred by the owner in treating the injured pet.

Only a few US states allow pet owners to sue for emotional distress when pets are killed.

In Colorado a court recently awarded $65,000 to a pet owner for the emotional distress she suffered after her 18-month-old dog was hit by a car after being let out of the house by a cleaning crew.  The crew also allegedly failed to notify the owner or seek veterinary care for the dog after it was hit.

In the Colorado case, the owner was represented by The Animal Law Center, which said the award was the highest in the state’s history and that “The ruling sets a damages precedent that animals are worth more than their replacement value.”

About the Author: Nussin S. Fogel, Esq., has been practicing for over 25 years as a top slip and fall lawyer in New York. Mr. Fogel founded Fogel Law, a firm specializing in Slip and Fall Accidents, Motor Vehicle Injuries, and other areas of Personal Injury Law. He has published on various aspects of Personal Injury Law across the web.

Make Sure You Have Adequate Auto Insurance

(US law and general information) If you don’t have adequate auto insurance coverage, you could be putting yourself and all your assets at risk. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people don’t understand the value of auto insurance. Worse still, the vast majority of people don’t want to pay for it. Most people also don’t think they need so much insurance coverage for their car because they erroneously think that causing a catastrophic car accident won’t happen to them. The fact is it can happen.

Imagine that you’re on a long road trip with your family. Hypnotized by the road, you fall asleep at the wheel. Suddenly, you wake up and see a pair of headlights coming toward you. Not having enough time to respond, you collide with the other driver. You and your family escaped with no injury, but the driver and passengers in the other car weren’t as fortunate. One of them died and the other three passengers sustained life-changing injuries.

No doubt the accident was your fault because of your negligence. To make matters worse, your limits of liability are the minimum your state requires, which is not nearly enough to cover the death that you caused, let alone the major injuries that the other three passengers sustained.

Your insurance policy won’t cover the majority of the costs. Chances are you will be sued. They will call one of those personal injury lawyers on television to go after you and your insurance company. One innocent mistake can easily translate into a costly roadblock in your life’s path. There goes your house and your vacation property, along with most of your other assets. What do you do now?

Granted, this is an extreme example and most people won’t cause fatality accidents, but even a minor accident can result in costly medical bills. A broken leg is enough to break anyone’s bank. That broken leg requires so much medical attention – and money to repair. Sometimes they may require after care and physical therapy. It’s important to be prepared.

How much auto insurance coverage do you really need? You need to purchase enough bodily injury and uninsured motorist coverage. You should have $250,000 per individual and $500,000 per collision in this coverage. You also need to purchase property damage coverage. Some states require as little as $5,000, but it is recommended you have at least $100,000 in property damage coverage.

The amount of auto insurance that you carry really depends on your assets. If you own a business or property, you’re personal liability increases. The same holds true if you have children because you are legally responsible for them and all their actions until they reach the age of 18.

Be sure to contact an insurance agent to properly determine your auto insurance needs. A minor change in your auto insurance policy can save you a lifetime of pain – and punitive damages.

Cindy Santos is a media relations specialists with Accident Attorneys’ Group.

Missed Fractures

If you sustain a fracture, it is reasonable to assume that a trip to the hospital is the best course of action. With a quick examination and an x-ray, doctors will diagnose the break and treat it accordingly. The last thing you expect is to leave A&E with an undetected fracture. And while this may seem unlikely, it does unfortunately happen more often than you might think. Not only with this prolong the pain and suffering for the person in question, but it will also lead to a series of health complications later down the line.

How Can A Fracture Be Left Untreated?

A fracture can be left untreated for one of two reasons:-

1. On purpose

Some fractures will be left deliberately untreated. For example, if you fracture a rib, it is not possible to apply a plaster cast or provide any other form of treatment (other than painkillers). Instead, the bone must be left to heal of its own accord. Therefore if doctors leave a fracture untreated on purpose, they are knowingly doing so for medical reasons, meaning their actions will not amount to a substandard level of care.

2. Medical negligence

However, there are sadly occasions in which doctors simply fail to detect a fractured bone. This may either be because they do not believe a bone is broken and so fail to perform an x-ray, or they perform an x-ray but do not accurately analyse the image. It is highly likely that this will amount to an incident of medical incompetence, especially if other doctors would have been able to diagnose the fracture. This will, therefore, amount to medical negligence.

Have you suffered from an undiagnosed fracture?

If your fracture was missed by medical professionals, you must contact a medical negligence solicitor as soon as possible. This is because you will be considered the victim of a substandard level of medical care, meaning you are legally entitled to pursue a claim. If successful, you will be awarded compensation for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity an untreated fracture undoubtedly caused you.

Indeed, your life will have been severely hindered while your fracture remained undetected, while the level of treatment may have been more extensive had a cast been applied when you first attended hospital. Broken bones quickly join back together, and if your fracture knitted together in the wrong place, you will require surgery to fix the problem. This could otherwise have been avoided had doctors recognised your injury at the time of the accident.

Additionally, you will be recompensed for the acute financial loss you incurred. So if you were unable to return to work because you were in so much pain, and this caused you to lose money, you will be able to claim this expense back. This also applies to the cost of medical treatment, travel and domestic assistance.

To begin your claim for a missed fracture, contact us at 1stClaims today. We will be more than happy to discuss your case with you.

US Health Law May Curb Rising Maternal Deaths

This article was written by Andy Sampson of Price Benowitz LLP.

The US Health Law has been a subject of debate for a while. Since the law has passed, it is important to examine the parts of the law that will impact our society in a positive manner. More people will have access to healthcare and this affects society in a positive way. One segment of the population that will benefit for the Health Law is pregnant women.

When a woman dies in childbirth, many families consult an injury attorney because they feel that the death could have been prevented. One aspect of US Health Law that will be very beneficial to our society is the fact that there will be more access to healthcare for pregnant women. Providing more access to healthcare helps decrease several risk factors that arise due to the lack of prenatal healthcare. One risk factor that arises when a woman doesn’t receive prenatal care is maternal death due to pregnancy complication.

EFFECT OF MATERNAL DEATHS

Maternal deaths can negatively affect a family in many different ways. Without the mother present, someone else has the responsibility of taking care of her children. In addition, it may be a hardship for a father to take care of children depending on his schedule. This still can put stress on extended family members.

Extended family members may be unwilling to take a child when there is the issue of who will provide financial assistance for the child for the next eighteen years. Some family members may be reluctant to commit to caring for a child for such a long time without any type of compensation. When there is no one available to provide financial assistance for raising the child, then a new problem arises.

When there isn’t anyone to care for a child whose mother died in childbirth, it adds to the number of children in foster care. The foster care system is already overwhelmed without adding newborns to the list of children in need of families. When there is no family available to care for the children of a woman who died in childbirth, then those children end up in foster care. Their foster care costs our system and can soak up valuable tax dollars.

EFFECT OF IMPROVED HEALTHCARE

The effect of improved healthcare for pregnant women is profound. When a mother is able to get healthcare, she can make sure that she has a healthy pregnancy. Examinations can also catch some potentially fatal diseases such as gestational diabetes and enable a woman to get treatment that may save her life.

There is a trickle-down effect that occurs when a mother dies in childbirth. It not only affects the mother and her child, there are far reaching implications for society as a whole. The Healthcare law will help protect the mothers who want to get more healthcare, but were not able to before.

When there is a maternal death because the mother lacked prenatal care it affects our entire society. Providing more access to healthcare for pregnant women will be a benefit for all. Healthier babies and a healthier mother is one goal that may be accomplished by the new healthcare law.

Overview of the Different Types of Clinical Negligence Claims

While most of the doctors in the country are highly dedicated individuals, it’s unfortunate that every so often a patient will have to endure undue suffering and poor care at the hands of a medical professional. If that’s happened to you or a loved one, you may be eligible for filing a clinical negligence claim.

What kinds of claims fall under the clinical negligence category? Here’s an overview of all the different types of claims.

Birth Injury. If you or your child were harmed in the birthing process due to clinical negligence, you stand a strong case of making a claim. Common birth injuries include cerebral palsy, shoulder dystocia, brachial plexus injury and erbs palsy.

Cancer. Cancer misdiagnoses are another common arena of claims. If your cancer was misdiagnosed, resulting in a loss of lifespan, you may qualify for a claim. Many forms of cancer are treatable in early stages and much more difficult to treat in later stages. If a doctor misdiagnosed your cancer and prevented treatment early, they’ve negatively affected your chances of recovery.

Cardiology. If your doctor didn’t perform the proper tests after you complained of having chest pains which subsequently affected your cardiovascular health, you may qualify for a claim. If you had cardiovascular issues, such as heart attacks, angina, heart murmurs or heart blocks and you weren’t adequately diagnosed or treated, you may have a case.

Child Negligence. Child negligence cases apply both to newborn babies and to young children who’re particularly susceptible to medical issues. Any medical negligence that leads to a child’s injury or worsening of condition may qualify for a case.

Cosmetic Surgery. If your cosmetologist conducts surgery and leaves a scar afterwards or if you develop an infection afterwards, you can file for clinical negligence. Uneven breast implants after breast surgery or problems with eyesight after laser surgery can also qualify.

Eye, Nose and Throat Surgery. Most ENT surgeries go off without a hitch. Unfortunately, those that go wrong have dire consequences. These consequences include paralyzed facial muscles, damaged vocal cords, throat swelling and deafness. If you experience any of these symptoms after surgery, you have a strong negligence case.

Fatalities. If clinical negligence leads to fatalities, the estate of the deceased or the dependents of the deceased can both make a claim. In order for a dependent to make a claim, they must be able to prove that they would have obtained financial benefit from the deceased had they lived.

General medicine. General medicine cases include failure of your GP to refer you to the right specialist, failure to recognize and treat well known conditions, prescription of the wrong drugs, delay in diagnosis and other types of negligence.

General surgery. Poor surgery results, internal bleeding as a result of the surgery, organ damage, nerve damage, awareness during an anesthetized procedure and medical instruments left in the patient’s body can all result in general surgery claims. If the patient didn’t give consent for the surgery, a very strong claim can be made.

Gynaecology. Negligence by your Gynaecologist could result in infected bladders, failed abortions, infertility, failed contraception, urethral injury and more. All of these fall under the Gynaecology clinical negligence category.

Neurology. Neurologists specialize in making sure your brain and your body’s nervous system are functioning properly. Failure to properly test patients, resulting in brain injury, failure to prescribe proper epileptic medications and failure to diagnose a brain tumor are common neurology negligence claims.

Obstetrics Maternal Injury Negligence. Vaginal tears, still births and birth defects fall under this category. Failure to conduct tests to inform the mother of possible birth defects early in the pregnancy can also constitute Obstetrics Maternal Injury Negligence.

Ophthalmology. Eye related injuries fall in this category. Cases that involve failed laser surgery, corneal abrasions, cataract surgery, glaucoma and traumatic retinal detachment fall under this category.

Orthopaedic Injuries. If you’ve suffered an injury during knee surgery, hip surgery, shoulder surgery or hand, leg, arm or foot surgeries, you may qualify for an Orthopaedic clinical negligence claim.

Spinal Cord Injury. An injured spinal cord can result in partial or complete paralysis. Improper diagnosis, delayed diagnosis or poor surgery could lead to spinal injuries. These claims often lead to large settlements.

Urology. Urology claims involve kidney diseases, kidney stones, cancer in the bladder, testicles or prostate as well as any problems with vasectomies.

If you’ve suffered from one of the above types of clinical negligence, you may qualify for financial compensation. Of course, money can’t compensate you for the time and vitality that you’ve lost. However, receiving your due compensation can be an important part of moving forward.

Author Bio – This article has been written by LB Law. If you are a victim of medical or clinical negligence, their highly experienced team of clinical negligence solicitors can help you seek compensation. Their medical negligence solicitors have considerable experience in working with individuals and families facing the aftermath of all types of medical and clinical accidents.