Baby Starved of Oxygen in the Womb Wins £Multi-Million Compensation Claim

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Baby Victim of Medical Negligence Receives Life-care Payout [23rd Feb 2012]

A girl who was left blind and only able to feed through a tube due to a medical blunder has been awarded a multi-million pound compensation settlement. Hannah Louise Gudd was starved of oxygen in the womb during her birth in 2001 which led to cerebral palsy and blindness. She also has an inability to eat solid foods. Hannah's mother Emma Gudd has sued the hospital on her daughter's behalf and has claimed negligence by hospital staff at the Northampton General Hospital. Liability has been admitted by the hospital and a settlement was agreed in court. Hannah will receive £1.5 million in a lump sum plus an annual payment to cover the costs of her care. This will start at £135,000 and will increase to £225,000 per year as she gets older and needs more care.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released their monthly figures and they have shown that the amount of compensation paid out to those who were mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) has reached almost £2 billion in 2011. In December 2011 a total of £441 million was paid to customers, which was the highest monthly figure for the year. Richard Lloyd from consumer organisation Which? has commented that it is good to see that the amount of compensation payments being made for PPI is speeding up as the year went on, but even the nearly £2 billion figure is in fact only one quarter of the amount which is expected to be paid out. He also points out that many people are finding the claims process very lengthy and that it should be streamlined to make it easier to claim. Doing this may prevent claims companies from making money from those who want to claim.

It has emerged this week that a failed Algerian asylum seeker has asked for £50,000 in compensation over his illegal detention. Abdel Zahali spent 11 months in a detention centre after he lost his repeated appeals to stay in the UK. He has been in the country for 18 years after he arrived on the back of a lorry in 1994. His detention began after he threatened to set himself on fire in front of an MP to highlight his claim for asylum. He was charged with affray. He has claimed that his human rights were breached by his detention which continued after his sentence was compete. He was also put on suicide watch during his time at Colnbrook Immigration centre. Zahali is claiming that the Home Secretary did not follow Home Office rules when detaining him and that detention should only occur in extreme circumstances. He also fees that the detention made his depression worse. The Home Office has said that they do not comment on individual cases.

An Australian compensation scheme is pay to repatriate a woman who was left in a coma after a quad bike accident in Tasmania. Holly Raper from Lancashire was injured in the accident in December while working on a farm in Tasmania and her parents were struggling to find the funds to bring her home. The Tasmanian Government's Worker's Compensations Scheme will now pay for her flights and care during the trip. Holly's mother has said the news is a great relief to the family who discovered that Holly's insurance did not cover her for work related injuries. The cost is likely to stretch into six figures and will take four separate "legs" and will complete at the Royal Preston Hospital which will take over her care.

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