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Multimillion-pound payout for man brain damaged at birth
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The family of a man of 20 years, have won several Sunderland pound payment of compensation for the mistakes that at its birth, has greatly handicapped. The Dixons has been for 11 years in the fight for compensation in the north-east of Strategic Health Authority to pay for the care of Mr. Dixon and believed that his mother had bad job market, and not subject to control, which, in the brains of his injuries. Clinical negligence lawyers in the law firm Irwin Mitchell, representative of Dixons, said that while Linda Dixon was published in the work, heart rate his son was dangerously low, and she obtained the drugs in order to accelerate work, but they, the situation is even worse. The remuneration package of confidence from the hospital, on the modalities of the High Court, Newcastle Wednesday, the payments are made in the form of structured and administered by the Court of Protection. Irwin Mitchell said it was the largest colony compensation granted in the north-east, but the Dixon family do not want the exact amount available to the public. The lawyers said an important breakthrough in the case came last August, when the hospital Mr. Dixon’s father Derek said: “We hope this makes a big difference to the quality of life of Andrew - it is, August 21, and like everyone else at this age, in order not to be his parents want everything time. ” The family is now able to provide 24 hours of professional care of needs as Mr. Dixon better equipment, such as electric wheelchairs expanded. They plan also to a series of holiday houses in a bigger house. Derek Dixon, Sunderland College, added: “There is much to qualify for Andrew, his own space, and be more independent - he willingly with friends and participation of Tyneside Metropolitan College.” |
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