Following the set standards in medical practice, all healthcare providers owe their patients a professional duty of care. Has your doctor or GP failed in this regard? Our expert solicitors can help you make a claim!
When medical professionals fail to exercise reasonable care towards their patients, causing harm or injury, this is known as medical negligence.
It is the responsibility of your healthcare practitioner to provide you standard care. If they fail to do so, resulting in harm, our solicitors can help you make a claim against them.
Making a claim is undoubtedly stressful for any individual. This is where our medical negligence solicitors come in – we will relieve you of the stress by handling your claim process from start to finish.
A medical negligence claim is a legal case made against a medical practitioner or a healthcare institution such as the NHS, for failing to provide the standard duty of care required of them.
In such situations, the victim demands compensation from the guilty party for all what they have been through during the period. Medical negligence claim cases are pretty complex, therefore it is important that you seek professional legal advice before getting started.
If you or your loved one has been harmed due to medical negligence, our medical negligence claim solicitors can help you get justice by winning you the compensation you deserve.
To start a claim, you must be able to prove that the harm done to you directly resulted from the negligent action of your medical practitioner, and it wouldn’t have otherwise occurred.
Our medical negligence solicitors are always available to provide you with medical negligence expert opinion and support throughout the claims process, contact us today.
It is important that you know all the requirements needed to begin a medical negligence claim.
Firstly, you need to approach a medical negligence solicitor. Our team of expert medical negligence solicitors have successfully handled numerous medical negligence cases and have helped many claim compensation. We are as willing and ready as ever to help you claim compensation for all your suffering and damages.
Secondly, you need to provide substantial evidence to prove that you were indeed subjected to unfair treatment or medical negligence. Put explicitly, you should be able to provide evidence that:
Your ability to prove these elements gives you a headstart on making a claim for medical negligence.
In order to calculate how much compensation you will get for medical negligence, certain factors are put into consideration including;
Usually, compensation for medical negligence is made up of two vital elements – pain and suffering, and financial losses
Compensation for pain and suffering indicates the nature and severity of the injury. Injuries such as serious brain and spinal injuries are at the top of a tariff system set by judges, and these reach around £335,000 compensation. The lowest tariff for minor injuries, where there is complete recovery within three months ranges between the values of £1,060 to £2,050.
Compensation for financial losses includes elements such as:
If you contact us today, our solicitors can help you get an estimated value of your claim’s worth using our medical negligence compensation calculator.
It is advisable that victims of medical negligence seek compensation as early as possible.
According to the Limitation Act 1980, the time limit for medical negligence claims is three years from the date the negligent treatment occurred or the date of knowledge, if this is later. The date of knowledge is when you become aware that the harm or injury suffered is a result of medical negligence.
However, there are exceptions to the three-year rule. One of the exceptions is if the patient is under the age of eighteen, or lacks mental capacity. Judges may make room for other anomalies, although it is highly unlikely that you will be allowed to make a medical negligence claim after 3 years.
If you are making a claim for medical negligence which resulted in death, you may be allowed three years from the year the victim died to bring forward your claim.
It is also important to note that this time limit is for formally lodging the claim with the court, not just for speaking to a lawyer. It is essential that, as soon as you possibly can, you contact our negligence solicitors to help you with your medical negligence compensation claim.
In order to make your claim process less burdensome for you, we offer our services on a no win no fee basis. This means that if your compensation claim is unsuccessful, you will not have to pay a contingency fee for your lawyer’s services.
Our team of medical negligence experts will ensure that you will not face any additional charges or bills for payments incurred during the process of claiming compensation.
Only 25% of the total compensation recovered will be required of you to be paid upon the successful completion of your claim process.
Here are some examples of medical negligence that might lead to a lawsuit:
To prove that medical malpractice occurred, you must be able to show all of these things:
A clinical negligence claim is only possible if at least some fault can be found against the hospital, doctor or other medical professional. Only if fault, or a ‘breach of a duty of care’, can be proven, and that breach has caused some additional harm, will your claim have a chance of being successful. It is not enough that the treatment offered did not succeed or did not work as had been hoped.
Unless you have taken independent legal advice on the whole value of your claim, you should not accept a first offer from an insurance company.
