Brain injuries and head injury claims

Some brain conditions are treatable and an early diagnosis is crucial to prevent permanent complications. The role of the brain injury lawyer in acting for a brain injured person is to understand as soon as possible the extent of the injury and to involve the all the relevant medical and ancillary experts at the earliest opportunity in assessing the injury and to work with them throughout the case.

Brain injury through medical negligence

Diseases and conditions of the brain and spinal cord form a part of medicine called neurology. Neurology covers a wide spectrum of conditions, from the stroke to the rarer diseases.
 
It may be possible to claim compensation for the failure to diagnose symptoms, resulting in the lack of the correct treatment being implemented. Such a failure can have catastrophic consequences.  Treatment itself can also be negligent. Operations, however difficult and complicated, can be negligently performed by neurosurgeons, and if this negligence causes damage then it is possible that compensation may be recovered. It may also be necessary on occasion to question the choice of operation and the standard of post-operative care received.

Obstetric brain injuries and child brain injury

Our lawyers are specialists in the field of obstetric or birth injury. If you believe your child acquired a brain injury or cerebral palsy due to:

• A poorly conducted amniocentesis procedure
• Your labour and delivery being badly managed;
• You receiving any negligent ante-natal care; or
• Your baby not being properly cared for after birth

you may have a claim for your child which deserves compensation.

Brain injury through accidents

We have successfully represented clients who have received serious head injuries after being involved in road traffic accidents and crashes, motorcycle crashes, coach accidents abroad, train crashes, traffic collisions and bomb explosions.  Many of our clients have also acquired severe brain injuries through an accident at work due to poor health and safety standards.

Access to services

We also act for the best interests of clients who are brain-injured and who are seeking appropriate services from social services, education authorities and the NHS.
 

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).

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