Blindness claim resulting from a Trust’s failure to organise routine diabetic retinopathy appointments and timely laser treatment. The claim settled for £1m in 2018

The Claimant suffered the loss of vision in one eye after a hospital Trust failed to organise routine follow up diabetic retinopathy appointments and offer a timely laser treatment appointment when the Claimant developed retinal haemorrhage, which led to total retinal detachment.  

We obtained an early admission of liability, and secured an interim payment for our client.  We settled the case for £1 million, four months before trial.

The issues in the case were around what sight the Claimant would have retained had the treatment been given, and whether the Claimant would have ordinarily been able to continue working to retirement age, regardless of the treatment failures.

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