Sydney Medical Negligence Lawyers

You attend upon your general practitioner for a referral for your routine mammogram and subsequently present to radiology, just like you have done for the last 6 years. You leave the radiology clinic and receive no follow up from either practitioner and you assume no news is good news but is this really the case?… Read More »No News Is Good News, but Is It?

We have seen an increase in the number of enquiries for BPC Law to investigate cases where it is alleged that a hospital failed in its duty of care to treat early symptoms of a stroke. It would appear to be uncontroversial that the earlier a stroke is recognised and treated the better the likely… Read More »Delay in Diagnosis of Stroke

Imagine being diagnosed with cancer. Now imagine being diagnosed with advanced or terminal cancer and learning that, if it had been detected sooner, it could have been cured. Imagine the shock. The disbelief. The fear. The anger. After all, this isn’t your fault. You’ve always had regular check-ups, exercised, followed a healthy diet. You’ve always… Read More »Can I Sue My Doctor for Delayed Cancer Diagnosis?

BPC Lawyers have successfully acted for many plaintiffs in respect of nervous shock claims pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Liability Act 2002. Nervous shock claims can be brought by a person suffering pure psychiatric injury following circumstances that the defendant ought to have foreseen to be capable of causing a person of normal… Read More »Assessment of damages in Nervous Shock Claims

I thought it might be a good time to acquaint some of our readers with the type of work that we are doing here at BPC. When people talk about worker compensation Lawyers Sydney they think injuries at work and on the road. We are certainly a major law firm in compensation claims of those… Read More »What Goes On At BPC

The Supreme Court recently had occasion to look at the respective responsibilities of a hospital and a treating specialist when a patient tragically died in Newcastle Private Hospital. In this case the patient died after undergoing elective surgery. The deceased’s family brought a claim for their nervous shock and for the loss of the financial… Read More »Whose Fault, Doctor or Hospital?

The Truth About Trasylol  – Trasylol could be responsible for death, stroke, heart attack or kidney failure, you should act quickly. Following the airing of the news and current affairs program, Sunday Night, on 12 October 2014, BPC Lawyers have received a number of enquiries from people wondering whether the administration of Aprotintin (known commonly… Read More »Update: The Truth About Trasylol

We are fortunate in New South Wales to benefit from some of the most highly trained medical practitioners in the world. However, incorrect diagnoses and negligently performed medical procedures do sometimes occur. The consequences can be catastrophic. The recent Inquest into the death of Luke Wood, a Sydney bodybuilder, and former Australian bodybuilding champion, is… Read More »Medical Negligence & the Inquest into the Death of Luke Wood

Elayoubi v Zipser [2008] NSWCA 335 This case is a very good example of an unusual outcome that may occur in the event of two defendants having failed to warn a patient of a particular outcome (multiple causation). In this case, the mother of the plaintiff had undergone a classic caesarean section with respect to… Read More »Multiple Causation in Medical Negligence Claims

In 2010, Beilby Poulden Costello was instructed to act for a plaintiff who had a claim against her chiropractor. She alleged that the treatment that she was given in 2008 was performed negligently and claimed compensation from the chiropractor. Facts Our client had a breast augmentation procedure in 2005 during which implants were inserted. She… Read More »Medical Negligence in Allied Health Care

Medical giant Johnson & Johnson is under mounting pressure to settle a class action launched against it by 4500 Australians who were fitted with the company’s infamous metal-on-metal hip replacements, after a US victim was awarded $8.3 million. Lawyers representing the Australians fitted with the articular surface replacement (ASR) hip implants will return to court… Read More »Compensation Hopes For Faulty Hip Implant Victims

The family of a US girl who lost 90 per cent of her skin after suffering an allergic reaction to pain relief medication has been awarded $63 million in compensation. Samantha Reckis was seven years old in 2003 when she took “Children’s Motrin”, a pain reliever manufactured by a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to… Read More »Family Wins $63M Compensation From Johnson & Johnson