First Bullying Compensation Claim Payout

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First Bullying Injury Compensation Claim to Succeed [17th Nov 2011]

The mother of a boy who was bullied at school has received a four figure sum in compensation for negligence and a breach of statutory duty from the school. This makes Jed Winfindale and his mother, Stacey the first people in the country to receive compensation for a bullying incident. The bully had beaten Jed in a classroom while the teacher left the room to get help. He was left with bruising to his arms, ribs and neck. The bully received just two days suspension for the incident and his mother received no explanation from the school about what had happened. However, Mrs Winfindale refused to accept this punishment and insisted on the boy being excluded. Jed also suffered from ongoing nightmares. Since this happened, Jed and his siblings have become targets of friends of the bully and are now being home-schooled.

A teenager has been told he must pay compensation after he smashed a car window with a bottle. Pappu Thakli carried out the act while on a night out in Aldershot in October. He was part of a group and was seen throwing a bottle which smashed a drivers window while the man was still in the car. It was alleged that the driver had been racially abusing Thakli on that night and previously, however he did admit that he threw the bottle. Due to his previous good character and his potential as a student, Thakli was ordered to pay £200 compensation and £30 court costs.

The family of a woman who died when she was six months pregnant due to complications surrounding pre-eclampsia have received compensation of £15,000 from Kings Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Denise Kirk died in 2005 along with her unborn child as she had surgery. The inquest revealed she died of accidental death, however her parents felt that mistakes had been made in her treatment. The case was taken on by the Healthcare Commission in 2007 and it was found that a vein had been punctured during surgery which led to cardiac arrest. The family say that they only wanted to find out the truth and that the case was never about the money.

People with mortgages through Halifax may be in line for compensation after it was revealed that some customers may have been misinformed about interest changes. Earlier this year the bank had written to 600,000 borrowers regarding a change in how their mortgage rates were calculated and the fact they were entitled to compensation if they had not been told. However another 250,000 customers have been identified as also being eligible for compensation. The compensation offered was 1% of the mortgage balance for each year the customer was affected or a flat amount. The problem related to a change to the cap on the standard variable rate which was increased by 1%. It was thought that customers would not have realised the rate had changed. Halifax agreed to offer compensation in a voluntary agreement with the FSA.

Steve Edwards from Weston-Super-Mare has received a six figure compensation payment after it was revealed that surgeons at Bristol Royal Infirmary had operated on the wrong side of his heart during an operation for an irregular heartbeat. This resulted in a pacemaker having to be fitted. BRI have said that changes have been made to prevent such an incident happening in the future. Mr Edwards had not realised anything had gone wrong until ten weeks later. He had thought that the fitting of the pacemaker was due to complications not resulting from an accident. Now Mr Edwards will need to have surgery every 7 years to have the battery in his pacemaker replaced.

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