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Are you a victim of hospital negligence? Has your healthcare institution mistreated you? You can make hospital negligence claims. Contact us for a free no-obligation evaluation of your case today.
The medical practitioner accountable for you in a hospital owes you the responsibility of handling your situation with utmost care. If the care you receive is below the acceptable standard, the impact on you could be devastating.
Hospital negligence is a situation which occurs when you receive substandard care while in the hospital. This includes situations where you have had incorrect, delayed or poor-quality treatment which caused you further pain and suffering, or made your conditions worse.
A hospital negligence claim is a legal case against a hospital that has caused you pain and suffering by mistreating you or providing you with a substandard duty of care.
Every hospital negligence claim is unique to the patient involved. In order to understand what constitutes hospital negligence claims, the most common claim types are listed below:
If you wish to start a hospital negligence claim, you should first ensure that you’re able to prove, without the shadow of a doubt, that you have suffered wrong treatment, delayed treatment or substandard treatment in a hospital.
You should also be able to prove that the injury and pain suffered is a direct result of the negligent action by the hospital, without which, you’d still be in perfect physical condition.
Our expert hospital negligence solicitors are always ready and willing to provide you with their expert opinion and provide the right support to get you on the best path to securing compensation. Contact us today.
Compensation for hospital negligence can be claimed for any of the following:
Before you bring a claim for hospital negligence, you must be able to prove the following:
Negligence: This fundamental component establishes the fact that the hospital owes you a djt of care and shows if there was any breach in the duty of care.
Causation: This component ascertains whether the hospital’s breach of duty is a direct cause of the harm, pain and suffering you’ve been through.
Usually, claims for hospital negligence must be made within three years from the time the act of negligence occurred or from the time you first recognized that your injury or illness is a direct result of hospital negligence. However, there are few oddities when the hospital negligence involves:
Children who have suffered negligence and cannot make claims by themselves. In this situation, they have until they turn 18 to bring a claim, and the three-year limit only applies from that time.
A victim who is disabled and unable to bring a claim by themselves due to the disability. For instance, where the victim has lost his or her mental capacity.
The amount to be received as compensation is dependent on the complexity and severity of your case.
Our negligence solicitors will analyze all available facts relating to your claim in order to determine how much compensation you should claim.
General damages: These refer to any pain and suffering you may have experienced, caused by the negligent act.
Special damages: These cover any past and future monetary losses incurred due to the negligence. For instance, medical expenses, care costs, travel expenses, etc
Our no win no fee agreement allows you to proceed with your compensation claim process without any cost attributed to it. This means that when making a claim, you suffer no financial risk. You will only be required to pay a small percentage of the compensation claimed upon the successful completion of your claim process.
Our specialist hospital negligence solicitors have garnered experience handling various hospital negligence claims and helping victims win compensation for their claims. We can also help you reclaim your rightful compensation today. Contact us now as our expert solicitors handle your claims with utmost professionalism.
Medical Negligence occurs when a health professional, who owes his patients a standard duty of care, fails to uphold his duty of care and the responsibility that is expected in such a way that because of this failure, the patient suffers an injury or harm.
Medical malpractice lawsuits are difficult to prove. You need to show: The hospital is responsible, and not just the doctor. The hospital/its medical professionals owed a duty of care to you and they failed to meet the accepted standard of care
More than 9 out of 10 malpractice cases are settled without going to trial. If you do end up in court, here’s the data: In the case of weak evidence, physicians win about 80% to 90% of the time.
You can claim for hospital negligence compensation if you are a victim of incorrect, delayed or substandard treatment from an NHS institution.
