Brain and spinal injury claims

Leigh Day & Co personal injury solicitors specialise in bringing compensation claims for individuals who have suffered injury to the head, brain, spine and spinal cord. When a serious injury happens to the head, brain or spinal cord, it can have devastating and life-changing consequences.  Head and back injuries can happen as a result of road traffic accidents, accidents at work, negligent surgery, criminal assaults, birth injuries, inappropriate medical treatment or trips and falls.  Our brain and spinal injury solicitors have experience in all these types of case.

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 specialist injury compensation solicitors know how to maximise your chances of a successful claim for damages through the legal process.

While a good lawyer cannot offer medical advice they can help to ensure that, where possible, there is money to pay for any course of medical treatment needed.  Our expert and knowledgeable lawyers have decades of experience in using their skill and expertise to press forward with getting interim payments from the defendants insurers to cover the medical and rehabilitation expenses relating to spinal injury and brain and head injury claims. See also our birth injury claims section.

Leigh Day: experts in handling brain and spinal injury claims

Our specialist brain and spinal injury solicitors have extensive experience in securing settlements for people with catastrophic injuries.  In particular we have handled cases involving:

• 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.

Leigh Day & Co solicitors is accredited by:

Accidents against Medical Accidents (AvMA), the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), Child Brain Injury Trust, Headway, the Spinal Injuries Association and the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum as a firm of solicitors able to represent clients with complex and serious brain and spinal injury claims.  We are retained by British Cycling and the British Triathlon Federation to provide legal advice for members of these associations who have been injured in road crashes. We are also on the approved lawyers list for the Brain Injury Group (BIG).

Leigh Day has demonstrated absolute commitment to improving the lives of children who have been affected by brain injury and we look forward to working with them for many more years.

Vivienne Streeter
British Institute for Brain Injured Children

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