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Brain Injuries
Brain injury claims often involve brain haemorrhages. Internal bleeding is bad news wherever it occurs in the body but the after effects of brain haemorrhages in terms of brain damage can be particularly devastating.
In a lot of these cases there is a warning bleed resulting in a major headache often described as being unlike any headache the patient has ever had before. The investigation of these cases focuses on:
- whether this bleed was recognised.
- if it was, whether the patient had an urgent CT scan.
- whether appropriate treatment was organised quickly enough, once the bleeding was diagnosed.
These cases require a specialist medical negligence lawyer familiar with these issues and the long term consequences of brain injury. In a lot of cases these are obvious for everyone to see but in others the effects on character, behaviour and intellectual functioning are more subtle but just as significant.
Brain injury compensation claims which we have dealt with successfully include:
- £2.1 million damages for a failure to treat a brain haemorrhage resulting in a devastating re-bleed and permanent frontal lobe brain injury.
- £150,000 damages for a failure to diagnose a brain haemorrhage resulting in partial loss of vision.
To speak to a specialist medical negligence solicitor who can help you with your brain injury claim or any other type of medical negligence claim contact us today by calling, emailing or filling in our free initial advice form.