Injury News

• Office of the Public Guardian Deputyship fee refund scheme

  • PostedOctober 4, 2019

  The Ministry of Justice has today launched a refund scheme for overcharging assessments and annual supervisions for Deputyships between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2015. The Office of the...

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• The Early Notification Scheme: One Year On

  • PostedSeptember 26, 2019

  NHS Resolution, the body responsible for managing compensation claims against the NHS, has reported on the first year of its Early Notification Scheme. The scheme was introduced to improve maternity...

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• Returning to work post Brain Injury

  • PostedSeptember 25, 2019

  Not everybody who has sustained a brain injury will be experiencing the same difficulties or challenges. We often see Clients with hidden effects of a brain injury and it may...

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• Patient dies after six month surgery delay

  • PostedSeptember 25, 2019

  The Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued an apology after Denis Harrison, 62, died after waiting six months for surgery. Mr Harrison was diagnosed with bladder cancer in...

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• Automated 999 call-handling system causing fatal ambulance delays

  • PostedSeptember 19, 2019

  Three people have died after receiving delayed care from the South East Coast Ambulance Service, caused as a result of failures with a computer call-handling system. Mrs Filby rang an...

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• New strain of strep A emerges in England and Wales

  • PostedSeptember 18, 2019

  A new strain of toxin producing group A streptococcus is spreading across England and Wales. Strep A causes many different infections – ranging from a sore throat to scarlet fever....

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• £38,500 obtained for back problems following an injury at work

  • PostedSeptember 12, 2019

  Louise Harper and Tijana Bencedic, members of the Ashtons Legal personal injury team, have obtained £38,500 for Mr P, whose back gave way while he was lifting paving slabs manually...

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• NHS to receive £6.2 billion extra funding

  • PostedSeptember 9, 2019

  The chancellor, Sajid Javid, has announced a spending review that will see an extra £6.2bn going towards the NHS next year. This will include £210m for frontline staff. This should...

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• £150,000 obtained for horse-related injury

  • PostedSeptember 4, 2019

  Tim Gleave has obtained a £150,000 settlement for a young lady who was injured by a horse. Miss C was leading a horse to a paddock when the horse reared...

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• Over £26,000 obtained after piece of gastric band was left in body

  • PostedAugust 30, 2019

  Loveness Chihoyi, a chartered legal executive at Ashtons Legal has obtained over £26,000 for a woman who had a piece of her removed gastric band left in her body for...

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• Council concealed asbestos risk from woman now terminally ill from asbestos cancer

  • PostedAugust 30, 2019

  A former Dagenham woman is terminally ill from an asbestos cancer she contracted from washing her husband’s overalls, after the local council who employed him had told him there was...

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• Compensation obtained for family of man who died after treatment error

  • PostedAugust 29, 2019

  Amanda Cavanagh, a Medical Negligence Specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a substantial amount of compensation for the family of a man who died after he was not given heparin...

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