Substantial Compensation  for client with kidney donor transplant  prescribed contraindicated antibiotics  by her GP and her treating hospital

Karen Kearney and her team Tricia Sisk and April Wiseman secured compensation for the physical and psychological injuries suffered by our client, as well as securing reimbursement for the GP fees, hospital fees, travel and subsistence and loss of earnings  incurred by her, at settlement talks  with the Defendants in April 2025, some two weeks prior to the Trial date of this High Court case.

In summary our client had a history of a deceased kidney donor transplant  and was on Tacrolimus (an immunosuppressive drug).

She was prescribed Clarithromycin, a contraindicated antibiotic, by a GP in her GP practice  and a Hospital Registrar in 2019, due to negligence.

Incredibly, our client had been negligently prescribed the same contraindicated antibiotic on three earlier dates by three different GPs in her  GP practice,  but which was not causative of over and above injury.

Our client   only learned of this negligence when we  took up her records from her GP practice  as part of the investigations we conducted on her behalf to ascertain if she had a claim or not.

She felt even more let down by her GP practice, of  which she has had to reluctantly remain a patient as no other GP practice in her area are taking on new patients.

Having reviewed the medical records, we recommended to our client that a report be commissioned from an expert GP in the UK (to ensure independence) and he confirmed GP negligence.

We then commissioned a report from a Nephrology expert who confirmed causation.

We then issued and served  High Court proceedings on behalf of our client.

During the course of the exchange of pleadings, we secured an admission of liability by the Defendants, namely they conceded they were negligent but they admitted only to a slight exacerbation of the our client’s renal function decline.

A report from a Consultant Psychiatrist we commissioned confirmed that our client suffered psychological injuries as a result of the Defendants’ negligence.

Our client was invited to talks  by the Defendants in October 2024, which were unsuccessful.

An  offer to settle  was made by the Defendants  and rejected by our client on our advice.

The offer ultimately accepted by our client in April 2025  was a 160% increase on the previous offer.

Our client was relieved that her legal battle was over.  She felt vindicated and hoped that lessons have been learned by the Defendants.

We were delighted to be able to assist her.

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