Bristol Personal Injury Blog
Staff injury compensation costing council
Posted: 13th February 2015
Posted in: Hand Injuries Repetitive Strain Injury Workplace Injuries
Staff personal injury compensation is costing Barking and Dagenham Council £20,000 a month according to recently released figures. The figures were released following a Freedom of Information request, which detailed that the council paid out to 90 separate incidents between January 2009 and September 2013, averaging out at just less than £20,000 a month. The total paid […]
Read MoreInterview with Our Web Manager Bob Wilson on Forthcoming Website Plans
Posted: 10th February 2015
Posted in: Personal Injury
In what we hope to become a regular series, we will be interviewing members of our staff so you can get to know the team at Personal Injury Bristol a lot better so you know who does what and why. This week we decided to have a quick talk with Bob Wilson who manages our website […]
Read MoreNHS apology over ‘unacceptable’ wait
Posted: 7th February 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence NHS Claims
A woman who was forced to wait for a year to have an operation for her severely painful womb condition has been sent an apology from the NHS. Dawn O’Toole was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2014 – a painful condition whereby tissue that behaves like that in the lining of the womb, is found outside […]
Read MoreMental health outsourcing raises concerns
Posted: 1st February 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence
Campaigners argue that a health trust’s new plan to outsource mental health care by putting patients on Skype to workers in “lower wage countries” is unacceptable. The idea was proposed in a recent report put forward by the mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk. Unison, which represents mental health staff, said that the idea […]
Read MoreBrain tumour surgery finally goes ahead after being cancelled three times
Posted: 30th January 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence Negligent Cancer Diagnosis
A woman has finally had her brain tumour removed after her operation was cancelled and rescheduled three times. 24-year-old Emily Bennet, from Fernhill Heath near Worcester, was originally meant to have her tumour removed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the beginning of December. However, it was cancelled because a more severe case required […]
Read MoreFamily seek answers following spleen rupture death
Posted: 25th January 2015
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents Medical Negligence Wrongful & Accidental Death
The family of a man who died of an undiagnosed ruptured spleen has described the fact that nobody has been held accountable for their son’s death as “shameful”. John Moore-Robinson, aged 20, died after being sent home from Stafford Hospital with a ruptured spleen that doctors had failed to recognise. His parents, Frank and Janet […]
Read MorePsychiatric hospital “unsuitable and unsafe”
Posted: 18th January 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence
A psychiatric hospital in York is to be closed after inspectors described it as “unsuitable and unsafe for patients”. The Archbishop of York originally built the hospital in 1777 as the ‘County Lunatic Asylum’, which was later changed to the Bootham Park Hospital. The hospital houses two acute admission wards, one for men and one for […]
Read MoreWhy We Operate Personal Injury Claims on a No Win No Fee Agreement in Bristol
Posted: 15th January 2015
Posted in: No Win No Fee Personal Injury
At Personal Injury Bristol we firmly believe that access to the justice and legal system should be available to all, regardless of financial circumstances. That’s why we only work on a no win no* fee agreement for personal injury claims in the Bristol and Avon areas. This means that claimants don’t need to pay for […]
Read MoreHow We Can Help With Medical Negligence Claims on a Local Level This Year
Posted: 13th January 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence
It’s a fact of life that most of us, at some point, will need the care and attention of medical professionals. In most cases, we will be offered the best care possible, and will receive a fantastic service. But what happens when something goes wrong? Cases such as this are known as clinical negligence, and used to […]
Read MoreMan seriously injures three strangers
Posted: 30th December 2014
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault Head and Brain Injuries Restaurant Accidents
A man has been charged after punching three strangers in the face as they left a bar in Plymouth. 25-year-old Dominic Shorten assaulted the individuals in an unprovoked attack, knocking one of them unconscious. Mr Shorten admitted the three counts of assault against Mr Alexander, Ross Pettitt and James Spingnall on 17 September at Plymouth […]
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