Have I got a medical negligence claim?
If you consider that you or anyone in your family have suffered injury as a result of sub-standard medical treatment, then you could be entitled to make a compensation claim for the injuries and financial losses arising from that sub-standard treatment.
To successfully bring a claim, we, as your specialist medical negligence solicitors will need to obtain medical evidence to demonstrate:
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That the medical professionals who treated you owed you a duty of care and that they breached that duty of care by following a course of action that is not supported by a reasonable body of medical opinion; and
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That as a result of the breach of duty, you have suffered injury and financial loss.
Subject to proving the above, we will proceed with your compensation claim.
Your compensation will comprise:
a. General damages;
b. Special damages.
General damages is the part of the compensation attributable to the injury, pain and suffering you have experienced as a result of the sub-standard treatment you have received. This is assessed with reference to expert medical evidence which we will arrange of your behalf.
Special damages are essentially all of your financial losses and expenses arising from the sub-standard treatment, both past and future, including such items as loss of earnings, cost of any care and assistance, past and future medication costs and rehabilitation and treatment costs.
For free advice, contact Bolt Burdon Kemp’s expert medical negligence solicitors and let us assess your claim online