Medical Negligence Claims on Behalf of Children

If your child has suffered due to medical negligence, we have the specialist expertise required to help you claim the compensation they deserve.

The impact of medical negligence during childhood can be very severe, with the potential to cause serious pain and distress to your child, as well as the possibility of lifelong consequences to their health and wellbeing.

Claiming compensation is often essential to get your child the best support and care, including therapy, specialist equipment, transportation, house adaptations and rehabilitation where required. It can be the first step in helping to ensure your child has the best possible quality of life and can reach their full potential.

Dealing with medical negligence can be very distressing and confusing, especially when it involves your child. Our team understands this and we do everything we can to make the claims process as straightforward and stress-free as possible for you and your family.

Please do not worry if you are uncertain whether you have a claim – our team is here to listen, support you and guide you through this process.

Our team of specialist solicitors can offer you:

• A free initial assessment of your claim
• Decades of specialist experience with childhood medical negligence claims
• Independently accredited expertise you can trust
• A sympathetic, personal service
• Legal aid funding
• No win, no fee claims (for any costs not covered by legal aid)
• Representation for clients anywhere in England and Wales
• The best chance of securing maximum childhood medical negligence compensation

Call our free 24-hour claims line for a fast assessment of your child’s medical negligence claim

Want to find out if your child is entitled to medical negligence compensation? You can call our 24-hour claims line to book an assessment with someone from our specialist medical negligence legal team.

Call now on 0800 988 0772 to book your initial assessment.

Types of paediatric negligence claims we can help you to claim compensation for

Our expertise includes claims related to:

• Birth injuries
• Neonatal negligence
• Endocrinology negligence
• Cerebral palsy
• Erb’s palsy
• Meningitis
• Scaphoid fracture
• Testicular torsion
• Surgical negligence
• Misdiagnosis and late diagnosis of cancer
• Complications from tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
• Misdiagnosis and late diagnosis of chronic health conditions such as Crohn’s disease

Why trust Medical Accident Experts with your child’s medical negligence claim?

Our team has decades of specialist experience handling all types of medical negligence claims, with particular expertise in claims on behalf of children. Over the years, we have achieved a very high success rate for our clients, having secured many millions of pounds in compensation.

Members of our team hold a range of accreditations, providing independent assurance of the quality of our service. These include:

• Law Society Clinical Negligence panel membership
• Law Society Personal Injury panel membership
• Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Clinical Negligence panel membership
• Membership of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
• Head of Clinical Negligence and Medical Accidents Linda Levison is ranked as one of the top 50 female lawyers in the UK by Super Lawyers, a highly respected listing published by Thomson Reuters

Time limits for paediatric negligence claims

You will normally have until your child’s 21^st birthday to make a medical negligence compensation claim on their behalf.

However, if they are deemed to lack the mental capacity to pursue a claim on their own behalf, there is no time limit to claim.

Funding for medical negligence claims on behalf of children

Legal aid for birth injury compensation claims

Legal made be available if your claim relates to an injury to your child at birth due to medical negligence.

We hold a legal aid franchise and are able to offer legal aid for birth injury claims.

If you would like to find out more about legal aid for birth injury claims and whether your child is eligible, please call our free 24-hours claims line on 0800 988 0772 to book an initial assessment with our team and we will be happy to discuss this.

No win, no fee paediatric negligence claims

We offer no win, no fee funding for medical negligence claims on behalf of children.

Childhood medical negligence success stories

£15,000 for loss of testicle in 14-year-old boy due to medical negligence

Our medical negligence solicitors acted for the family of a boy who suffered the loss of a testicle due to a missed diagnosis of testicular torsion.

After suffering severe lower abdominal pain, the boy was taken by his family to their GP. The GP failed to carry out a proper examination, diagnosed suspected chlamydia and prescribed antibiotics.

Over the next two weeks, the boy’s left testicle shrivelled up. His family took him to see a different GP who immediately diagnosed testicular torsion, but by that point it was too late to save the affected testicle, which had to be surgically removed.

Our team represented the family in their claim against the original GP and, while liability was never admitted, the GP’s insurers agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement of £15,000.

Read more about this case here.

Call our free 24-hour claims line for a fast assessment of your child’s medical negligence claim

To find out if your child is entitled to compensation for medical negligence, call our free 24-hour claims line now on 0800 988 0772 to book an assessment with someone from our specialist medical negligence team.