Articles by ‘Kerstin Scheel’

Why it is important to reduce risk and promptly diagnose Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

A second inquest is to open on Monday (21 January 2013) into the death of Stanley Mack after the Court of Appeal quashed the verdict of an earlier inquest where the coroner failed to…

Withy King has secured a multi-million pound settlement and a public apology on behalf of a young man who suffered injuries during his birth which led to severe brain damage. Withy King’s clinical negligence…

T, a young girl, received £488,000 compensation for the hospital failing to diagnose her hip displacement at birth.

G, a 12 year old girl who had already undergone several serious procedures received £445,000 in compensation for late diagnosis.

We all make mistakes. Tragically, mistakes which doctors, and in this case also pharmacists, make, often cannot be fixed. The K family instructed our Clinical Negligence team after Mrs K, wife and mother, died after receiving four times the maximum dose of her chemotherapy treatment drug.

Losing a parent is a sad experience which almost all of us go through in life. However, in this case our clients had to deal with a sudden and untimely death of both their parents in a horrific car accident. Since our clients were all independent adults when this happened, the case also raised some issues as to what compensation was appropriate.