Pages On: Hip Injuries
Hip injuries are not just problems for the elderly, damage to our hips can be caused by a myriad of accidents that can leave us immobile for a long time. A hip injury can lead to several other issues for a person, and restrict their ability to live and work. In the worst cases, a hip injury can leave someone wheelchair bound, but even minor ones can leave someone with little-to-no movement for a while. If you’ve suffered a hip injury, and it wasn’t your fault, you may be able to claim personal injury compensation.
Docks worker to compensate injured police officer
Posted: 27 October 2014
Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Hip Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A Falmouth docks worker has been ordered to pay a police officer personal injury compensation after he pushed her when she attempted to break up a fight. PC Anna Fielding suffered a broken pelvis in the incident and was left in severe pain for four months. Jonathan Brealy, a 42-year-old shipyard welder, knocked her to the ground as she tried to stop a fight between two people standing behind him. The father-of-three admitted to causing PC Fielding bodily harm and assaulting another officer during the struggle to arrest him. Mr Brealy…
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Pelvic fracture woman waits six hours for an ambulance
Posted: 30 September 2014
Posted in: Hip Injuries, Medical Negligence
A 90-year-old woman was forced to wait over six hours for an ambulance to arrive after fracturing her pelvis this month. Barbara Hedley fell in her Norfolk-home, in Beeston Regis, at the beginning of the month, but was given ‘low-priority’ by emergency staff as she was still breathing and conscious. The ambulance service has since apologised to Mrs Hedley. The accident happened around four weeks ago, and despite being in a great amount of pain, Mrs Hedley was able to telephone an ambulance. A paramedic arrived two hours after she made…
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Mid Staffordshire NHS trust fined after death of diabetic patient
Posted: 29 April 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Hip Injuries, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Wrongful & Accidental Death
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has admitted to health and safety failings that caused the death of a diabetic patient. The trust has been fined £200,000 for failing to provide 66-year-old Gillian Astbury with her insulin, resulting in her death in April 2007. A judge at Stafford Crown Court said that Mrs Astbury’s death could easily have been prevented had she received the correct care. In 2010 an inquest found that there had been a failure to provide basic care to Mrs Astbury when she was admitted to the hospital for fractures…
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Pelvic and Hip Injury Compensation
Posted in: Hip Injuries, Personal Injury
Pelvic or hip injuries can be very painful and can be very uncomfortable. The pelvic is located at the base of the spine and its purposes is to transfer weight and energy when walking, running, sitting and so on. Men and women have different pelvic bones but they can be injured just as easily as each other’s and when this happens you can make a compensation claim against the negligent party if they owed you a duty of care, which many people do, for example road users to other road…
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