Brain injury

Faulty bicycle causes crash resulting in serious injuries

Our client, Miss P, sustained a severe brain injury after the handle bars came off her bicycle whilst she was riding downhill. The accident was caused by negligent assembly of the bike by the manufacturer.

Child suffers frontal-lobe brain injury after motorway accident

Our client, Miss O, suffered life threatening injuries in rear-end shunt car accident on the motorway, leaving her with frontal lobe brain damage with modest cognitive deficits.

Brain injury after gentleman punched at taxi rank

Our client, Mr I, suffered brain injuries after he was punched in the face whilst waiting at a taxi rank, causing him to strike his head on the pavement. He had ongoing cognitive difficulties including difficulties with word finding, as well as a personality change.

Head injury and stroke following trip in hospital

Our client, Mrs K, required multiple surgeries after suffering post-operative anastomotic leaks and a ureteric injury during surgery for bowel obstruction.  Unfortunately, Mrs K then suffered a head injury and stroke when she tripped over a raised area in the hospital corridor.  At that time it was also found that a JJ stent had been left in place for 9 months after her previous surgery, causing urosepsis and other urological problems.    

Client who sustained severe brain injury when on holiday in Europe as a child

We act as Deputy for EF, who sustained catastrophic injuries, including a severe brain injury when on holiday in Europe as a child.

Client sustained a brain injury from road traffic accident

Our client, AB, sustained a brain injury when he was involved in a road traffic accident. AB received a final damages award and we were appointed to mange AB’s finances on his behalf.

Woman in minimally conscious state after trailer accident

Our client, Miss G, suffered profound, life changing brain injuries after another driver’s trailer became detached from his car, colliding with her vehicle, leaving her in a minimally conscious state. Our personal injury lawyers have obtained a multimillion pound award to compensate her for her injuries and to pay for her on-going care.

An inspiring story of a young woman living with a brain injury

Personal injury lawyers specialising in cases involving brain injury, based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) offices, have secured a six figure sum for a young woman who suffered brain damage after being struck by a car.

Car mounts pavement causing pedestrian head injury

Our specialist personal injury lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) offices, has secured £95,000 for a man who sustained head, spinal and soft tissue injuries when a car mounted the pavement, striking him.

Brain injury suffered in road traffic accident

Our specialist personal injury lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) Offices, has secured £3.9 million for a young man who suffered a traumatic brain injury following a road traffic accident.

Multiple injuries for railway worker struck by train at 60mph

Our specialist personal injury lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) offices, has secured a six figure settlement for a railway worker who suffered multiple injuries, including brain damage, when he was struck by a train when the rail lines were re-opened negligently.

Working with headway

Thomson Snell & Passmore helps a client of Headway in West Kent following a road traffic accident - Barry.

Employer’s Liability – work or play?

Six figure compensation award for claimant injured at a work 'day out'

Referee awarded compensation for brain injury sustained during rugby match

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Personal Injury team who represented a client in an unusual case involving a rugby match.

Kent man sustains brain injury in bizarre tractor accident

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Personal Injury team who recently secured compensation of a six figured sum for a client from Sevenoaks, Kent for traumatic brain injuries sustained in a bizarre road traffic accident.

Injuries caused by defective products

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Personal Injury team who ensure that a client's prognosis is clear before advising them to settle their claim. The settlement recovered in this case included the cost of necessary ongoing treatment.

Headway’s Action for Brain Injury Week: Reflecting on the past year

We’ve never experienced anything quite like the past 16 months, have we? Our world has been turned upside down and we’ve all had to endure significant changes to our normal way of life.

Brain Injury Lecture - 2019

Thomson Snell & Passmore recently hosted its annual brain injury lecture, attended by clinicians, therapists, support workers and professionals working in the brain injury sector.

The challenge of ‘Invisible injuries’

Sunday 11 November marks Remembrance Day: a day to commemorate the efforts, achievements and sacrifices that were made in past wars and military conflicts since the onset of the First World War.

Managing the Neuroscientific Complications of Concussion of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems

Dr Peter Savundra, Consultant Audiovestibular Physician, provided insight on managing complications caused by damage to the audiovestibular systems after brain injury at our annual brain injury lecture on the 25th May 2017.

Should I settle my medical negligence compensation claim directly with NHS Resolution?

Often when patients are unhappy with the treatment they have received from an NHS hospital they will make a formal complaint to the Trust. Formal complaints are a useful way of getting essential information about the treatment a patient has received and may sometimes result in that Trust apologising to the aggrieved patient.

Brain damage, the hidden cost of acute sepsis?

According to the UK Sepsis Trust, there are about 150,000 cases of sepsis in the UK each year and 44,000 deaths. Another adverse outcome that is being identified in a growing number of our clinical negligence cases, involving long delays in the diagnosis of sepsis, is brain injury and cognitive deficits, causing lifelong symptoms that are sometimes subtle, but often much more profound.

Survey indicates just how complex and subtle the consequences of head injury can be

In a recent survey, eighty five percent of brain injury specialists did not fully appreciate that acceleration or deceleration forces – experienced for example when a car comes to a sudden stop - need last only one fifth of one second to trigger traumatic brain injury. This finding emerged from research conducted by Thomson Snell & Passmore’s leading personal injury team at their annual brain injury lecture.

Frequently asked questions about the Rehabilitation Code

We answer frequently asked questions regarding the Rehabilitation Code including it's purpose along with what the code states and how to code will help someone with a brain injury.

Making the best of your recovery is easier if you know who to contact for help

Brain Injury Guide