Why investment advice matters for Medical Negligence claimants
Compensation payments for medical negligence claims can often be one of the most significant sums of money that people handle.
Our experienced solicitors will expertly guide you through your entire medical negligence claim.
We all hope for a positive outcome from healthcare but sometimes mistakes or neglect by medical professionals do occur and can cause life changing injuries or disability, leaving you facing a future of uncertainty. This is the time to remember you are not alone.
At Tees, we have teams of experienced legal professionals who will start by simply listening.
Our medical negligence lawyers will guide you from your initial consultation through to achieving resolution whether through mediation, settlement or court proceedings. We focus on building a strong case based on medical records, expert testimony, and full assessment of your losses. We’ll aim to help you achieve what you need in terms of compensation and an admission of fault from the doctor and/or hospital concerned.
Medical negligence occurs when substandard healthcare causes or worsens an injury or condition. It is sometimes called clinical negligence or medical malpractice.
If you or your child were operated on by Dr Stohr at Addenbrooke’s, we can help assess whether you have a valid claim for compensation.
To prove clinical negligence, you need to show that a healthcare professional, or a healthcare system, has failed in their care towards you and that you have experienced damage or loss. This can be physical or psychological injury or financial loss.
We could not fault the service provided by the entire team at Tees. They were responsive, supportive, and extremely professional from start to finish. The successful outcome and the justice achieved were exactly what we had hoped for.
Medical negligence is one of our core legal services. We are a Legal 500 recommended firm with a track record of successful claims against hospital trusts throughout England and Wales, sometimes taking on cases that other law firms feel unable to handle.
If your case is unsuccessful, you will not be responsible for any fees or costs relating to it as we operate on a No Win, No Fee basis.
The areas our medical negligence team can help you with include:
Most medical negligence claims are funded using a ‘No Win No Fee’ agreement. This means you won’t have to pay for any legal costs, or costs associated with your claim, unless you are successful. If your claim is successful, the reasonable costs are paid by the Defendants and you are responsible to pay from your compensation amount any insurance costs, unrecovered costs and the success fee in relation to the case risk.
Tees undertakes many medical negligence claims on a ‘No Win No Fee’ basis. With this arrangement, if you lose your case, it should not cost you a penny as long have you have complied with the terms and not been fraudulent or dishonest. If you win your case, we will recover most of the costs from the defendants. There will be some deductions from your compensation for costs, but we guarantee that these will be no more than 30% of the total compensation recovered.
You will receive at least 70% of the compensation awarded.
No, we do not charge for the initial assessment. If we are able to take the case beyond the initial assessment, we will then discuss funding options with you such as legal aid, before the event insurance, or a no win no fee agreement.
Most of our claims are funded using our no win no fee package which means, if you lose your case, it should not cost you a penny. The package includes a conditional fee agreement and after the event insurance. If you win your case, we will recover most of the costs from the defendants and we will deduct the insurance premium, a success fee and any unrecovered costs from your compensation. The total costs that are deducted from your compensation will always be limited to a maximum of 30% of the total you receive, guaranteeing that you will receive at least 70% of the compensation awarded.
If you think you may have a medical negligence claim it is important to contact us as soon as possible. If, following our investigation, we consider that there is a strong enough case to bring a claim we will arrange a meeting with you to discuss funding the claim and to take a witness statement.
Once we have all the medical records, we will instruct independent experts to prepare detailed reports into the care you received and these will help form the basis of the case. We will gather evidence as to the impact this has already had on your life, and may continue to have into the future, for you and your family. We always consider the opportunity to conclude cases without the need to go to Court but this depends on each case and the Defendants position.
During the course of your case you will receive regular progress updates. Usually, your involvement in the claim will include:
Yes, if travelling is difficult for you we are happy to meet you wherever is most convenient. We are able to visit as needed, to give you time to tell us what happened, to take your witness statement and discuss the ongoing progress of your case.
In most cases, there is a three year time limit for bringing a medical negligence claim. The three years begins from the date of the negligence or from the date that the patient should have known that the injury was or could reasonably be linked to the original negligence.
There are some exceptions to the three year rule:
Other dates may also apply, such as where incidents occur abroad or outside England/Wales, where there is a Human Rights Act claim, or a defective product and so early advice is needed as some time limits are 1 year only.
There is a great deal of investigation work involved in medical negligence claims, so it’s important to contact a solicitor as soon as you can.
The NHS Early Notification Scheme was introduced in 2017 by NHS Resolution, a legal division of the NHS that work on complaints and claims for medical negligence.
The intention of the ENS is to investigate what happened when a child suffers a potentially serious brain injury around the time of his or her birth. The aim is to do this quickly when memories of the events are clear in people’s minds, and in turn to reduce stress on the families concerned.
Doctors and other medical staff must report any case of a child being born in circumstances which could cause a brain injury to their hospital’s legal team where the birth occurred. The case is then referred to NHS Resolution. If the case fits the criteria, it will be investigated under the ENS. Even though the intention is for investigations to take place as quickly as possible, unfortunately they can take a long time due to the complexities of each individual’s case.
If the medical staff in the NHS Trust are found to be have been negligent, the ENS will consider giving the family a formal written apology. In addition, a package of financial support and advice regarding next steps in caring for the child will be discussed. If you have been contacted in relation to the ENS, it is vital that you seek independent, specialist legal advice.
No, medical negligence claims can be brought against private doctors, surgeons, dentists and other health care providers, not just care or treatment received via the NHS and so can also include any treatment on waiting list initiatives
Compensation payments for medical negligence claims can often be one of the most significant sums of money that people handle.
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