Brain injuries
Each year, an estimated 1 million people in the UK go to hospital as a result of a brain or head injury. Leigh Day & Co solicitors specialise in brain injury compensation claims for individuals who have suffered injury to the head, brain or spine. When a serious injury happens to the head, brain or spine, it can have devastating and life-changing consequences.
Legal action will never restore your health, but it can provide the means to improve your quality of life. Early rehabilitation, assistance with equipment and access to expert medical help are all issues on which you need practical advice as quickly as possible and with the minimum of fuss. Our solicitors know how to maximise your chances of recovery through the legal process.
While a good solicitor cannot offer medical advice a law firm can help to ensure that, where possible, there is compensation to pay for any course of medical treatment needed. Our lawyers use skill and expertise to press forward with getting interim payments from the defendants insurers to cover your medical and rehabilitation expenses. We are rated by the main legal directories as a leading firm handling brain injury legal cases.
We have been involved in the following cases:
- compensation for a man whose spinal cord was severed in a criminal assault
- record damages for an advertising executive who suffered terrible injuries following an horrific car crash
- children who have acquired brain injuries due to delayed diagnosis or failure to diagnose a serious infection such as meningitis, listerial meningitis or encephalitis caused by herpes
- cerebral palsy caused by lack of oxygen during birth or pregnancy
- compensation for a man left paraplegic after a cycling accident
- a child with brain damage caused by a needle stabbing the head during an amniocentesis.
See also our brain and injury section
News
Sally Moore settles claim for compensation on behalf of woman injured in road traffic collision
A child injured at a rugby club party has received substantial compensation
Outstanding student JM was hit by a truck on the way home from school
Leigh Day & Co has represented the family of Velina Spence at the inquest into her death
An IVF patient, who has permanent brain damage from a stroke caused by her treatment, has received very substantial compensation, in a settlement reached the day before her case was due to come to Court.
A fifteen-year-old boy whose brain damage was caused by his poor treatment at Southampton General Hospital when he was only a few weeks old, has been awarded £1.5 million. He was represented by specialist clinical negligence solicitor Olive Lewin.
Leigh Day personal injury solicitor, Sally Moore, settles the case of successful advertising executive, Max Burt, for £8 million (at full value), after a crash with a fire engine left him with catastrophic injuries.