“The High Court has ruled it was wrong to strike out secondary victim claims from daughters who witnessed their father die after he was allegedly victim of clinical negligence. The girls, aged 12 and nine at the time, claim for a psychiatric injury suffered as a result of witnessing the event for a type of injury referred to in the authorities as ‘nervous shock’. It is alleged that their father’s heart condition was negligently missed by Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital 14.5 months before his death, but the daughters’ claim was struck out after the defendant rejected that it owed a duty of care to them …” (more)
[John Hyde, Law Society Gazette, 12 June]
First posted 2020-06-19 05:44:48
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