Medical Negligence Claims Solicitor

If you have a claim for medical negligence, your case can be funded under a No Win No Fee agreement. A No Win No Fee agreement, also known as a conditional fee agreement, is an agreement signed by you and your lawyer which states that if you lose your case, you will not have to pay any legal costs.

If we are satisfied that your claim potentially has reasonable prospects of success, we will agree to act for you under a No Win No Fee agreement and investigate your claim. This means that you can have your claim investigated at no financial risk to you.

Our team of solicitors gets to work for you without requiring any money upfront. If your claim for medical negligence is unsuccessful, and you have cooperated fully with your case, then you will not have to pay a penny. Instead of worrying about the legal costs, you can focus your energy on your recovery and our solicitors will handle the rest.

Medical negligence – sometimes called clinical negligence – is a situation in which a medical professional or institution has failed in their duty to take care of you and you have suffered injury and/or harm as a result.

We will have to show that the standard of treatment you received has been negligent (liability), i.e. that the treatment that you have received was below the standard of treatment that should have been expected from the type of doctor who was treating you.

In order to prove this we have to show that a clinician of the same discipline who treated you would not have provided the treatment in the same way or to the same standard as the clinician who treated you.

In addition to demonstrating that the standard of treatment you received was negligent (liability) we also have to show that as a direct consequence of the negligent treatment you have received you have suffered what is known as ‘avoidable harm’ (causation). What is meant by avoidable harm is pain, suffering or complications that are above and beyond those that you would have suffered had you been treated correctly in the first place.

As part of your claim we will be hoping to recover compensation for what is known as pain, suffering and loss of amenity (also known as general damages). This is pain and suffering that you have suffered as a result of the negligence and the loss of amenity being the inability to do the things that you once did as a consequence of the, for example no longer being able to play sport or socialise as you once did.

However, in addition to this we also seek to recover compensation for all the financial losses that you have suffered as a result of the negligence. This could include loss of earnings, travel expenses, care costs and medical expenses to name but a few.

Nothing can be more difficult than experiencing the death of a family member. Your world is turned upside down and you do not know where to turn or who can help, particularly if you believe that their death could have been avoided.

When someone dies due to medical negligence, the right to seek compensation for their injuries and death remain after they have died. This part of the claim is brought on their behalf after their death. The people who benefit under the person’s will (or intestacy if they died without a will) are able to seek compensation for their pain and suffering leading up to their death and any other losses they suffered personally as a result of their treatment.

We have specialist solicitors who can our trained to deal with estate claims on behalf of the family of the deceased.