Personal Injury News & Insights

Here at Gregory Abrams Davidson Solicitors we have a specialist team dealing with pressure sores also commonly referred to as pressure ulcers and bed sores. A pressure ulcer is damage that occurs on the skin and underlying tissue.

Recently, the media has often featured cases where legal action has been taken against a hospital or care home for neglect in which bedsores or pressure sores have been a feature of the patient’s condition.

A Widnes based polythene manufacturer, which makes film for the food industry, has been ordered to pay £40,000 following its prosecution for safety failings.

The words hip replacement can fill many people with dread, and rightly so as it is an immense procedure to undergo, particularly as a person approaches the winter of their life.

I recently came across “Campaign for Safer Births” an organisation set up by two mothers in memory of their sons, Louie and Harry, both of whom died as a result of negligence during labour.

Russell Hobbs have recently recalled a number of steam irons as a result of concerns over their safety and the possibility of injury .

not accept that all of these are unavoidable tragedies and has committed to halvin Following on from last month’s Panorama, “Born Asleep”, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) have launched a new five-year initiative, “Each Baby Counts”, to help reduce the UK’s stillbirth rates. They aim to reduce the number of stillbirths, neonatal deaths and brain injuries as a result of incidents during full-term labour by 2020.

Following BBC Panorama’s documentary, “Born Asleep”, it is fantastic to see that stillbirth and neonatal death has been given so much well-deserved media attention, especially during October, International Baby Loss Awareness Month.

Gregory Abrams Davidson Solicitors are delighted to announce that on the 31st July 2014 a Group Litigation Order was approved by the President of the Queens Bench Division in the High Courts of Justice.