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A 29-year-old woman who developed cerebral palsy as a result of receiving negligent medical care when she was a ten-month-old baby has been awarded £4.1 million in brain injury compensation.
The payout of brain injury compensation relates to a cardiac arrest she suffered two days after undergoing surgery to correct a heart defect. During the crucial 22 minutes it took medics to resuscitate the girl she was deprived oxygen to her brain, something which eventually led to her being left without sight or speech as well as prone to epileptic seizures. As a result she is now totally dependant on others to meet her most basic needs and has been cared for by her mother for the past twenty years.
During this time the girl's mother has been forced to sacrifice her own career ambitions in order to meet her daughter's needs. This was understood to be a factor in the size of the multimillion-pound compensation payout.
The daughter and mother, who now live in the United States, also received an apology from the Bristol NHS trust being sued, with a spokesperson speaking of the mother's "extraordinary devotion to her daughter's care at great personal sacrifice."
The court, together with the claimant's personal injury solicitor had to work hard to ensure 100% compensation was secured as the daughter and mother now live in the United States, meaning that complex transatlantic tax issues needed to be negotiated.
Speaking after the brain injury compensation ruling, the claimant's personal injury solicitor said that the two were "looking forward to putting this legal case behind them and getting on with life in the US."
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