Can I Recover Lost Earnings Due to Necrotising Fasciitis?
Your financial losses may be recoverable if medical professionals have failed in the quality of care they have provided of this shocking soft-tissue infection.
Financial losses and necrotising fasciitis
If you are unfortunate enough to have suffered the appalling infection that is necrotising fasciitis, you may be struggling to work. Your physical integrity and psychological health may have been affected by the trauma of this life-threatening infection and your income may have been reduced as a result.
If your experience of necrotising fasciitis, and your long-term outcome, have been influenced by negligent medical care, you may be able to make a claim for the financial impact.
Where appropriate, and where medical professionals are found to have been at fault, a successful compensation claim would incorporate your financial losses, past and future, insofar as they have been caused by the negligence.
If your symptoms mean that you require personal care, adaptations to your home or specialist equipment, the relevant costs could also be included in a claim.
Negligent care
Negligent care of necrotising fasciitis may include a failure to recognise or suspect the signs and symptoms of this destructive illness, a delay in diagnosis or a misdiagnosis, or a delay in initiating treatment.
If medical experts find that such a failure in the care pathway of this potentially-fatal infection has caused the patient to suffer a worse outcome than would have been the case with an acceptable level of care, it may be possible to make a claim.
How to make a claim for compensation
The first thing is to be aware of the time limitation. A claim must be issued with a court within three years of the date of the alleged negligence and an investigation into the quality of the patient's medical care is necessary before this point.
It is essential, therefore, to talk to a legal specialist at the earliest possible moment. They will have access to the best medical experts to analyse your medical records and will also be able to provide the expertise to negotiate the best settlement.
Their experience should ensure that a full assessment is made of the ways in which your life has been affected and the financial losses associated with that, such as a loss of earnings where your capacity to work has been compromised.
Speak to a specialist
Glynns Solicitors has extensive experience of necrotising fasciitis and can offer the expertise of a team of medical negligence specialists.
Contact us today to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim.
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