If you are a victim of medical or clinical negligence our highly experienced team of solicitors at Lanyon Bowdler can assist you in the event you wish to complain or seek compensation. For legal advice on making a clinical or medical negligence claim please contact Paula Nash, Head of Clinical Negligence or one of her team on 0800 954 9936.
We will all receive medical treatment during our lifetime. Thankfully, the vast majority of the time, such treatment is provided to a high standard. Some people, however, have the misfortune to become the victim of a medical accident. Things can and do go wrong. So what happens if you have been misdiagnosed, misprescribed, or mistreated? What if you are the victim of clinical negligence?
Our medical/clinical negligence solicitors have acted in a variety of cases, some involving large amounts of compensation being recovered (eg £3.9 million for failing to diagnose meningitis and £2.5 million for birth related cerebral palsy). Our solicitors have considerable experience in working with individuals and families facing the aftermath of all types of medical and clinical accidents.
Recovering sums of money might never properly compensate you for the harm you have suffered. But by bringing these cases to light it will help ensure continual improvements in medical standards, it may help prevent similar mistakes happening again, and it needn't be a stressful experience.
With an established representative on the Headway panel of Solicitors (Headway is the charity, which assists people who suffer from acquired brain injury), we offer considerable expertise in the area of brain injury. We are also members of the Law Society's Panel of Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Solicitors.
The Clinical Negligence Department has been awarded a Specialist Quality Mark by the Legal Services Commission, and holds a contract to offer publicly-funded legal services (formerly called Legal Aid) to clients. This prestigious appointment reflects the high level of experience within our Clinical Negligence Department.
The Clinical Negligence Department offer a FREE 30-minute initial consultation and home and hospital visits. We also offer a wide range of funding options to include public funding and conditional fee agreements (otherwise known as “no win no fee” agreements).
Our client’s recommend us and the accolades we receive confirm that we are good at what we do. We pride ourselves on offering total dedication to client care. Please click on the links to find out more about our team, the claims process and the services we can offer.
Legal 500 recommendation
The 2009 edition of the Legal 500 comments:
"At Lanyon Bowdler Paula Nash heads the team, which specialises in cerebral palsy cases. Recently it successfully represented a claimant in a case involving failure to diagnose breast cancer."
Our specialist medical / clinical negligence solicitors and lawyers at Lanyon Bowdler represent clients in Shropshire, Shrewsbury, North Wales, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire and the Midlands
With Offices in Telford, Wellington, Shrewsbury and Ludlow we are ideally based to satisfy the needs of the surrounding towns and villages and rural communities. To find out more about our teams in our different offices, please click on the team link.
For a free consultation call 0800 954 9936
