Birth injury compensation news
23/07/2008

High Court reaches decision

The High Court has decided that a seven-year-old boy from Liverpool should receive birth injury compensation as a result of the actions of doctors. In failing to check his mother's medical records they remained unaware of a fibroid in her womb, which left him starved of oxygen.

Although the precise amount of the birth injury compensation award is yet to be decided, it is believed that it will eventually be a multi-million pound figure as the boy now suffers from spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and needs round-the-clock care.

The boy's mother commented on the decision, "This has been an eight-year struggle, but we always said. we will keep fighting for him.

"We are so relieved. A court case is stressful enough, but when the future of your child is at stake, it is the most important thing in the world."

She also spoke of the work involved in caring for her son, "He is nearly eight and he is getting bigger. His muscles can get very stiff and this makes him difficult for me to carry.

"There is a lot of medical equipment involved. He cannot eat and I have to prepare a tube for his stomach and a milk and fibre solution.

"I am just thinking about adapting a room and getting a bathroom on the same floor. At the moment, it is upstairs and it is very hard work.

She also hopes that the hospital in question will not appeal, forcing both the family and its personal injury lawyer into spending more time and energy fighting the birth injury compensation claim.

"I only hope the hospital respects the judge's verdict and does not drag us through an appeal," she said.