Articles by ‘Kerstin Scheel’

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.