£1.2 million for growing tall...!?

[Murph7355]

johnfm said:

Do you think she is making these decisions - or her lawyers?

Oh I'm sure the lawyers interviewed her in a way to extract some of those quotes to maximise the claim. And that she chose the lawyers. I wonder if they were also "no win, no fee" merchants.

Regardless, the judge did not have to award what he did. You have to admit that a number of the things awarded are ridiculous?

Maybe the government need to set out a list of things they will and won't cover in future. Legal contracts that we all have to sign up to absolving them of anything more than continued NHS care should a condition be missed.

[johnfm]

Murph7355 said:

Oh I'm sure the lawyers interviewed her in a way to extract some of those quotes to maximise the claim. And that she chose the lawyers. I wonder if they were also "no win, no fee" merchants.

Regardless, the judge did not have to award what he did. You have to admit that a number of the things awarded are ridiculous?

Maybe the government need to set out a list of things they will and won't cover in future. Legal contracts that we all have to sign up to absolving them of anything more than continued NHS care should a condition be missed.

I expect you will find that the awards were made in line with longstanding convention - I doubt this is the first medical negligence case in recent years.

There is a general aim to put people in the position they would have been had the negligent harm not occurred - and as the length of this judgement shows, they go into every detail.

Not saying it is right - or wrong; but it is how it is.

You would expect the same degree of detail for a business making a claim for losses due to breach of contract or similar.

[Murph7355]

johnfm said:

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There is a general aim to put people in the position they would have been had the negligent harm not occurred - and as the length of this judgement shows, they go into every detail.
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Not in this example. She is being put into a very significantly better position than she would likely have been before. She couldn't afford private health before, she'll be getting it now. New cars every 4yrs, first class travel to see her folks and my personal favourite (but by no means the most ludicrous) - 450GBP a year to cover new silk pyjamas and a dressing gown. Every year.

If this is based on conventions that always get paid out when the NHS makes mistakes, it's no wonder our finances are screwed. And it's about time the conventions were started over with a bit of a better eye on affordability.

Maybe it would simply be much easier to not cover *anything* on the NHS. Give every man, woman and child 2.5k a year and tell them to sort themselves out for anything health related