Delayed or Misdiagnosis Claims

As medical negligence specialists, Devonshires Claims were shocked to hear about the tragic case of 15-year-old Olivia Maunder, whose doctors failed to make a potentially life-saving cancer diagnosis. Instead, it was suggested she try mindfulness to treat her pain.

Clinical Negligence claim following a failure to refer the Claimant to a neurovascular (Multi-Disciplinary Team) MDT team upon incidental findings of asymptomatic aneurysms and, in failing to do so, delayed or prevented the correct management/treatment thereof.

Successful recovery of damages following a delay in diagnosing and treating a complex sports injury resulting in more extensive and additional surgery and prolonged recovery period.

Legal action following a failure to appropriately diagnose and treat a thumb infection in a diabetic patient leading to amputation of the client’s thumb.

Whilst the Claimant was diagnosed correctly with a DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) treatment was interrupted for 2 days resulting in serious and lifelong consequences for the Claimant.

Failure to refer the patient to a stroke clinic, following a mini stroke; this hospital negligence resulted in her suffering a severe stroke.

Delay in diagnosis of an elbow injury.  But for the negligence, the Claimant, who is a minor, would not have sustained any significant damage to his elbow joint and avoided the need for any further surgeries.

Legal action following significant, negligent delay in the diagnosis of a slipped upper femoral epiphysis (hip).

Legal Action following failure to diagnose a brain tumour.

The claimant brought a claim for clinical negligence following delayed diagnosis of a drain infection after a kidney transplant.

The claimant brought a claim for clinical negligence following the delayed diagnosis of kidney stones which led to the claimant losing her kidney.

This was a case of a young woman who had acute presentation of severe Crohn’s disease which was not diagnosed definitively until her late re-representation with life threatening complications.