£150,000 Damages Recovered In Respect Of Inadequate Treatment Of A Fractured Wrist

The Plaintiff was born in 1971 and was aged 36 at the time of hearing. The Plaintiff sustained an injury to her wrist on 5th December 2001. A low Colles’ fracture was diagnosed. This fracture was inadequately treated. The fracture was treated conservatively in a plaster of paris. It was the Plaintiff’s evidence that the fracture should have been fixed by way of an operation. As a consequence of the failure to adequately treat the fracture the Plaintiff’s injury healed with a significant deformity. The deformity was ugly and cosmetically unacceptable.

The Defendant undertook treatment in order to correct the cosmetic deformity. It was the Plaintiff’s evidence that this operation too was performed incompetently and inadequately. The deformity in the wrist continues.

As a consequence of the negligence in this case the Plaintiff was diagnosed with a recurrent depressive illness. She suffers from depression, panic attacks and marked anxiety. The injury interferes with the Plaintiff’s ability to do day to day tasks and to engage in employment.

Initially the Plaintiff consulted a solicitor in her local area, however recognising the complexity of this matter, the case was referred to Patrick Mullarkey of Campbell Fitzpatrick, Solicitors. We took instructions in respect of this case on 17th June 2004. The case was concluded by way of a settlement in the sum of £150,000 on 21st January 2008.