Medical And Hospital Abuse Claims

We’ve experience working on behalf of vulnerable patients who’ve been abused by health professionals, hospital staff, and even other patients. If you've experienced abuse while seeking medical treatment, then you may be able to claim compensation.

Abuse is generally classed as a deliberate act of harm, including:

• Physical abuse or assaults
• Sexual abuse
• Emotional abuse.

If your child has experienced medical or hospital abuse, then you can make a claim on their behalf. You can also claim on behalf of a loved one if they’re unable to make their own legal decisions due to lack of mental capacity.

You normally have three years to make an abuse claim, or by your 21st birthday if you were a child when the abuse happened. However, there’s often a case for making a claim after this date

The first step in the process for making a medical abuse claim is contacting us. We’ll arrange a free initial consultation, where you can discuss your potential claim in a private and confidential meeting room. We’ll use this time to discuss funding options with you as well.

If you do decide to use our services, we’ll start by gathering evidence to build your claim. This could be your medical records, witness statements, or CCTV if it’s available.

We’ll present your claim to those responsible, if they accept liability, we’ll begin working to settle your claim.

If they deny liability or disagree with the compensation amount that we feel you deserve, we can start court proceedings. We’ll always try to avoid this, but sometimes it can be the best way to settle an abuse claim. However, we find it’s rare a hospital abuse claim goes to court.

The usual time limit for making an abuse claim is three years from the date of abuse.

However, if you or a loved one were under 18 when you were abused, the three years starts when you turn 18.

The courts understand the difficulties abuse survivors have coming forward about abuse. It can be possible to waive the time limits for abuse claims, allowing individuals to claim for historic abuse.

The decision to waive a time limit is decided on a case-by-case basis. Our lawyers are experienced in helping abuse survivors get the time limits waived and successfully make claims for historic abuse.

Every claim will take a different amount of time.

If those responsible admit liability straight away, your abuse claim will normally settle sooner. However, if they don’t, it can delay your claim settling.

No matter how long your claim takes, we’ll be with you every step of the way.

If you or a loved have experienced abuse in a hospital or medical setting, the amount of compensation you could claim depends on:

• The types of injuries you’ve sustained
• Care and specialist treatment you might need now and, in the future
• Loss of earnings in the past, now and in the future
• Court of Protection fees (if your loved one lacks the mental capacity to deal with your financial affairs).

Once you’ve told us more about what’s happened to you or a loved one, we’ll be able to offer more guidance on compensation.