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A 21-year-old man has received a six-figure settlement to fund his rehabilitation following an incident where he was hit by a motorcycle and acquired a life-changing brain injury. According to report, James Donovan, 21, who was 17 at the time of the accident was hit by a motorcycling at almost 70mph in a 40 zone. [...]

An in-house early rehabilitation and support service as been launched by Serious Injury Law to support recovery for seriously injured individuals. Serious Injury Law has confirmed that the service will focus on early intervention, giving clients access to specialist treatment and care. The company has said that the service goes beyond legal representation, also offering [...]

By Huw Ponting, Acquired Brain Injury Legal Expert and Head of Enable Law's Personal Injury Team Jason (name changed to protect his identity), a digital marketing professional in his early thirties, sustained a catastrophic traumatic brain injury (TBI) during a work-related filming assignment. He was filming a video from the back of a pickup truck [...]

Enable Law, the leading medical negligence, personal injury and mental capacity law firm, has announced the appointment of Annabelle Vaughan as the new head of its specialist mental capacity team. Annabelle will lead Enable Law’s fast-growing 41-strong team of mental capacity legal experts who support vulnerable people and their families with long-term care and financial needs. In the post, Annabelle, [...]

A man who was assured his benign brain tumour was nothing to worry about now lives with limited physical mobility and in constant pain, after ongoing delays and problems in his care have left him “a shell of a person”. Tony Mardell, formerly a successful business owner, waited more than a year between his tumour [...]

The Independent has reported that a patient has received a pay out of £70,000 from their GP after developing a gambling problem from being prescribed a common Parkinson's treatment. According to the publication, 66-year-old Philip Stevens developed an impulse control disorder after being prescribed the drug Ropinirole. Impulse control disorder is listed as a potential [...]

Today, MPs are debating the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill introduced by Kim Leadbeater MP and backed by a group of cross-party MPs for the second time. The bill would give adults in England and Wales who have less than six months to live and who are mentally competent the right to end [...]

A case has been settled in the High Court of Ireland which determined that a woman suffered a traumatic brain injury after her car aquaplaned on a road that had insufficient drainage.  Tara Mulrooney, 45, suffered a traumatic brain injury in July 2012 when her car spun out of control and hit a tree on [...]

Being a professional working with people living with Acquired Brain Injuries brings with it a heady responsibility. That responsibility sometimes requires us to go beyond the scope of our role. Depending on the support you provide and level of involvement you have in your client or patients' lives, you may come across information that makes [...]

Two Manchester Arena bombing survivors have won their High Court harassment case against a conspiracy theorist who claimed the terror attack had been staged.  Martin Hibbert (pictured above) was left with a spinal cord injury following the attack in May 2017, while his daughter Eve sustained a catastrophic brain injury. Former TV producer Richard Hall [...]