Bristol Personal Injury Blog

Hospital screenings leading to both misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis

Posted: 30th October 2014

Posted in: Medical Negligence Negligent Cancer Diagnosis NHS Claims 

With screenings playing an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous illnesses, such as cancer, the NHS has recently been criticised for not using the equipment adequately. The Science and Technology Committee has accused the NHS of “poor communication” on the issue of screenings, with people all over the UK being subject to both […]

Nurse wins compensation following holiday slip

Posted: 28th October 2014

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad Foot Injuries Leg Injuries Public Place Accidents 

A former nurse has been awarded £225,000 in compensation after she was forced to leave her job following a serious fall on holiday. 58-year-old Kathleen Powell had been a nurse for the army when she went on holiday to Tenerife in 2006. The accident happened during a salsa dancing class when she slipped on a […]

No charges following nightclub crushing deaths

Posted: 19th October 2014

Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault Public Place Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death 

It has been decided that no criminal charges will be made following the deaths of two women in a nightclub crush in 2011. 22-year-old Nabila Nanfuka and 19-year-old Laurene-Danielle Jackson were both out at Lava & Ignite in Northampton on the 18th of October 2011. Around 1,500 had been in the nightclub when the crush […]

£37.8 million paid out to patients by health trust

Posted: 11th October 2014

Posted in: Birth Injury Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence 

After a family recently received compensation for the brain damage their son endured following a hospital error, figures have revealed that the health trust has paid out over £37.8 million to patients in the last ten years. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust agreed to compensate the family of Cody Lyster-Hughes £6.5m earlier […]

Dog owner banned

Posted: 30th September 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks 

A man from Bedworth has been banned from owning dogs after he pleaded guilty to owning dangerous dogs that caused injury. 58-year-old Jasvinder Chana admitted to owning two dogs that caused injury on two separate occasions, on Monday 11th August and Wednesday 13th August. The victims, a fourteen-year-old boy and a fourteen-year-old girl, were both left with […]

Outcry over dog destruction

Posted: 28th September 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks Shop Accidents Workplace Injuries 

A wave of public anger has overcome the Derby community after a destruction order was placed on a dog forced to bite a shop assistant by its owner. Tia, a “pitbull or Staffordshire” type dog, was forced by her owner, Jessiah Johnson, to attack a shop assistant in November last year. Magistrates ordered the destruction […]

Couple finally wins £20k payout for life-changing gastric illness contracted on holiday

Posted: 23rd September 2014

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad Food Poisoning 

A couple from Bristol have finally been awarded compensation after a holiday organised by Thomas Cook went terribly wrong. Mark Bidwell and Nicola Greathurst had been on a two-week long holiday at the four-star Bahia Principe Hotel, in the Dominican Republic; a few months before they were due to have a baby. However, only five weeks into […]

Woman breaks spine abroad

Posted: 19th September 2014

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad Road Traffic Accidents Spine & Back Injuries 

38-year-old Joanna Rose was left with life-changing injuries after a car hit her during her honeymoon in Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca. She suffered a broken spine, five broken ribs, internal bleeding and serious bruising. The accident happened when her and her husband were walking along the side of the road and a car hit her from […]

Chemical leak leaves man hospitalised

Posted: 29th August 2014

Posted in: Workplace Injuries 

A chemical leak has left a man in hospital. A delivery driver phoned firefighters yesterday morning with the fear that there was a chemical leak inside his vehicle. The van had been delivering a heavy duty acidic de-scaler to a house in Ashbury, near Faringdon, when the incident happened. It is believed that the dangerous […]

Council pays out to injured boy

Posted: 28th August 2014

Posted in: Hand Injuries Head and Brain Injuries Public Place Accidents 

Hull City Council is to pay compensation to a five-year-old boy after he tripped and fell on an unsafe drain. Jayden Willby, from east Hull, suffered injuries after tripping on an unsafe drain nearby his home last November. The drain was highlighted as a hazard to the council on the day of Jayden’s injury, but […]