Articles in ‘Birth Injury’ Category

Hannah Blackwell, a Partner in the Clinical Negligence Team and an obstetric negligence specialist, comments on the findings of the Amos report.

RWK Goodman’s specialist clinical negligence team has secured an £8,250,000 lump sum award, together with annual periodical payments of £380,000 for life, for a 17-year-old who sustained permanent and life-limiting injuries at birth due…

Paul Rumley from RWK Goodman’s specialist clinical negligence team has secured £4,400,000 in damages, inclusive of interim payments and CRU, together with substantial periodical payments for life, for a child who sustained permanent brain…

Simon Elliman recently secured a lump sum of £3,000,000 for a 10-year-old child for the injuries sustained at birth in September 2015. Our client, as a result of their prematurity, developed a brain injury…

In September 2025, MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2021-23) published its twelfth annual report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity….

The MNSI (Maternity & Newborn Safety Investigations) body has published its annual report for 2024/2025; this provides an overview of their programme during this period and outlines its plans for the following year. MNSI…