Birmingham Personal Injury Blog
College fined over girl’s death
Posted: February 14, 2014
Posted in: Neck Injuries Public Place Accidents School Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death
York College has been fined £175,000 after a 3-year-old girl died on her first full day at the college’s nursery. The college has been fined for health and safety breaches after Lydia Bishop got her neck caught in a rope on an outdoor slide at York College’s nursery in 2012. The college denied charges, but was […]
Read MoreStained glass restorer fined over lead poisoning
Posted: February 7, 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence Industrial Deafness and Disease Workplace Injuries
The owner of Lincolnshire Stained Glass has been fined after one of his employees was found to have five times the normal amount of lead in his blood. Employee David Doherty, from Lancashire, had been working for the specialist stained-glass company for five years before doctors diagnosed him with lead poisoning. An investigation carried out […]
Read MoreHealth trust requires “urgent improvements”
Posted: January 31, 2014
Posted in: Medical Negligence
A recent investigation has uncovered worrying shortfalls within the Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust. Care Quality Commission inspectors made “extremely concerning” findings during their unannounced visits last year. Inspectors went to the trust’s headquarters and Ward 35 Immediate Care Unit at Aintree University Hospital, where it was uncovered that the trust was failing to meet […]
Read MoreSafety measures improved where British woman died in US hospital
Posted: January 27, 2014
Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad Medical Negligence Public Place Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death
After a British woman was discovered dead at the bottom of a stairwell in San Francisco General Hospital last October, an investigation has recognised a dramatic improvement in safety measures. Lynne Spalding, from Haswell in County Durham, had been missing for seventeen days before she was found dead at the bottom of a flight of […]
Read More10-year-old girl awarded £5m for hospital failures
Posted: January 20, 2014
Posted in: Birth Injury Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence
10-year-old Louisa Ravouvou, who suffered severe brain damage in 2003 due to hospital failures, has been awarded with £5m in a High Court ruling. Louisa suffered a bleed on her brain when in the womb, which hospital staff failed to treat, resulting in her brain damage. Not long after her birth, hospital staff failed to […]
Read MoreA&E targets missed by NHS England
Posted: January 13, 2014
Posted in: Medical Negligence
Figures released last week revealed that NHS England failed to meet their A&E waiting time target for the week leading up to the 5th of January. The national waiting time target for A&E departments is that 95% of patients should be seen within four hours. In the week running up to the 5th of January […]
Read MoreHusband and wife fall in Lake District
Posted: December 30, 2013
Posted in: Personal Injury Public Place Accidents
Both husband and wife were airlifted to hospital after both falling from the same spot while out walking in the Lake District on Sunday afternoon. A passerby witnessed the incident, saying that first the man fell from Swirral Edge in Brown Cove, followed by his wife who slipped when trying to reach him. The witness […]
Read MoreEsso fined for sailor death
Posted: December 17, 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence Faulty Work Equipment Workplace Injuries Wrongful & Accidental Death
Esso has been fined £100,000 after a member of staff was crushed to death under a fuel hose, an accident described as “wholly avoidable”. The company has admitted to health and safety failings and has been ordered to pay an additional £50,000 in costs. 40-year-old Juan Romero died in August 2008 when a corroded bolt gave […]
Read MoreHealth workers increasingly assaulted
Posted: December 6, 2013
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault Workplace Injuries
New figures have revealed a worrying increase in health workers being assaulted by patients with 2012/13 seeing over 2,000 instances of assault in the West Midlands alone. The figures have been described as “concerning” by the Royal College of Nursing, saying that the protection of staff is in the hands of the employer and that […]
Read MoreHoliday company fined £20,000 over young girl’s death
Posted: November 30, 2013
Posted in: Gym & Leisure Centre Injuries Public Place Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death
A Flintshire-based holiday company has been fined £20,000 after a 7-year-old girl got into some difficulty and drowned in the facility’s swimming pool. Seojin Kim, from Birmingham, had been on holiday with her family at Talacre Beach Caravan and Leisure Park in October 2010 when the accident happened. The former owners of the leisure site, […]
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