Havant Personal Injury solicitor, Vicki Wright, assesses the treatment options. When we suffer an injury as a result of an accident or following an assault, it is a natural reaction that we also suffer shock and an element of anxiety. Such anxiety may only last a few days or weeks but in some cases, the […]
If you’ve had an accident in the Havant, Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham areas, and suffered an injury requiring medical treatment, it is automatically assumed that the QA Hospital in Cosham is the right place to go. But in fact, it has now been established that out of 100,000 patients who attend the A&E Dept at […]
Robert Norris, 57, was rushed to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, on 11 March 2011, complaining of severe stomach pains. However, once at the hospital doctors repeatedly misdiagnosed Mr Norris with food poisoning despite mounting evidence that something more serious was wrong. It was only after his condition deteriorated rapidly that Mr Norris was […]
Mr Steele, 20, was moving heavy equipment with a tractor whilst working for a groundworks company. He had parked the tractor and applied the handbrake but there was no parking brake, it had been removed during maintenance 5 months previously. The handbrake was insufficient to hold the tractor which rolled backwards crushing his leg. Despite […]
Esso Petroleum has been fined £100,000 for the death of a sailor at Fawley Oil Refinery. Austin & McLean, a Bournemouth based company, were also fined for breaching Health and Safety Regulations. Juan Romero, 40, from Honduras, was a sailor working on a docked ship at Fawley. Mr Romero was crushed to death when a […]
David Taylor, 55, suffered partial amputation to all fingers on his left hand when it was pulled into the hook of a crane he was operating. Mr Taylor was using an overhead crane to lift heavy equipment when it slipped out of the straps that had been placed around it. The equipment started to fall […]