Boy wins £8 million compensation claim

Injury compensation to the tune of £8 million has been awarded to a 12-year-old boy who was injured during birth.

North Staffordshire NHS Trust has now admitted its liability for the incident at North Staffordshire Hospital after taking over ten years to express these sentiments.

Nathan Humphries has suffered with epilepsy and cerebral palsy since his birth in 1998, as a result of being starved of oxygen after his mother experienced a seizure and midwives did not react.

His mother, Beverly, of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, said: "I still feel angry that mistakes led to Nathan suffering a life-long disability. If I'd received better care he would not have been born with the problems that limit so much of what he is able to do."

In another recent legal case, injury lawyers won 16-year-old Zahra Salim-Jaffer £575,000 of compensation after she was left with a damaged arm at birth.

Published by Hannah Carr