Child injury and paediatric negligence

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Overview

Supporting you through a child injury

Get in touch now to discuss your claim

We trust doctors and nurses to take good care of our children, but serious mistakes can happen. When they do, this can be life-changing for children and their families. Making a medical negligence claim can help you understand what went wrong and provide financial support to help you cope with changes to your child’s needs.

Helping you and others

Our solicitors have wide experience in child injury claims, and will support you and your family throughout. We campaign to make sure the cases we handle can lead to improved healthcare practice and help prevent other families going through the same experiences.

Financial security into the future

We’ll tell you if your child has a case for compensation and help you get the best possible settlement for them to help provide for ongoing treatment and care, specialist equipment and future needs.

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Tees is a Top-Tier Legal 500 firm with a multi-disciplinary team. We have an in-house team of independent financial advisers who work closely with our legal teams to ensure joined-up first rate service.

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Examples of child injury and paediatric negligence claims

Examples of child injury negligence include:

birth injuries, including serious birth injuries such as Erb’s palsy and cerebral palsy
delayed diagnosis of childhood conditions, such as congenital hip dysplasia, retinopathy of prematurity, meningitis, septicaemia, or tuberculosis
delayed diagnosis of cancer in children, such as leukaemia, neuroblastoma, or brain/spinal cord tumours
delayed treatment provided to children
mistakes in your child’s prescription, such as prescribing the wrong medicine or dose
failure to identify or properly treat fractures
failure to refer your child for further investigation or treatment.

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How a compensation claim can help

We understand how an injury to a child can affect their future, and the future of the family as a whole. We will tell you if your child has a case for compensation and we’ll help you get the best possible settlement for them. Compensation gives your child financial security for the future and can cover a wide range of costs including:

ongoing care, such as home visits by a nurse or professional carer
specialist equipment your child might need
housing needs, including adaptations
medical treatment and therapies.

Nothing can make up for your child’s suffering, but compensation can help make life easier and provide future security.

We partner with Kids’ Therapy Works to support children and families

Tees Law clients can access specialist paediatric therapy services through our partnership with Kids’ Therapy Works. Since 2010, this experienced practice has been providing expert physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy to children and families across Essex and Suffolk.
Visit the Kids Therapy Works website for more information: www.kidstherapy.works