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Discount rate is reduced for personal injury damages
- 27.02.2017
- GaryHerbert
- Personal-injury, Opinion, Personal-injury, Opinion
I welcome the news that the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss has reduced the discount rate for personal injury damages, although stresses that this is not a ‘windfall’ for Claimants with brain and spinal injuries.
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Download our in-depth guide to the process and challenges involved in adapting or purchasing a new home following a serious injury. Inside you will get specialist advice from solicitors, disability architects and clients who have been in the situation themselves.
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Hugh Potter to speak to students at University Law School
- 10.02.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
We're delighted to announce that Hugh Potter will feature as a guest speaker at the School of Law at the University of Nottingham on Tuesday 28th February.
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Amputees call for more accessible sport and activities
- 09.02.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A new survey shows there is clear demand for more physical activities to be accessible for people with a limb impairment.
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Undiagnosis of spinal cancer leads to death of woman
- 08.02.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Patricia Ann Whitehouse complained of back pain for months and visited her GP on several occasions but was told she had a urinary tract infection. She was later diagnosed with spinal cancer and sadly passed away.
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We thought it would be a great idea to get the new year off to a healthy start so we invited a guest speaker to Potter Rees Dolan to give us some healthy tips and advice.
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Doctors who make mistakes given five year warning
- 06.02.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Patients will be told when a doctor has been issued with a warning, which lasts for five years, by the General Medical Council (GMC).
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Patients unable to control their bodies now able to communicate
- 01.02.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Patients who are 'locked-in' with no control of their body have finally been able to communicate.
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Inquest finds hospital failures caused young woman's death
- 17.01.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
A woman died after giving birth due to hospital 'failures, inadequate diagnosis and treatment' an Inquest has found.
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Young woman refused smear test dies from cervical cancer
- 13.01.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Amber Cliff, aged 25, passed away after years of symptoms which she explained to her doctors including bleeding and abdominal pains.
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