15th July 2019
The new personal injury discount rate has been revealed after months of deliberations and has been welcomed by lawyers. The rate – used to work out personal injury compensation settlements – was changed from -0.75 per cent to -0.25 per cent. The announcement means personal injury clients will get slightly less from August 5, but…
15th July 2019
A woman who had a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer developed another form of the disease from a breast implant. Joanne Saunders, 53, was desperate to have an implant after her mastectomy in 2005 to replicate what she had lost. But the mum-of-one was left fearing for her life again when she was…
13th June 2019
Hodge Jones & Allen has appointed Leticia Williams as the new head of the firm’s personal injury department. Leticia, who has been at HJA for ten years and is a Partner in the personal injury department, takes over from Vidisha Joshi, who is concentrating on her role as Managing Partner of the firm. Leticia’s promotion…
3rd June 2019
A medical alert has been issued over surgical staplers used in bowel surgery after patients suffered serious injuries during operations. The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued a medical advice alert after defects were found with Ethicon endo-surgical staplers. The devices are used in bowel surgery to achieve anastomosis – where a…
28th May 2019
An opera singer almost died after he was given toxic caustic soda to drink in a pub ‘as a prank’. Alan Costigan, 42, told how he started spitting up blood and suffered burns to his mouth, throat, gullet and stomach when he was given the substance – used to clean beer lines – to drink…
