Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team has settled a claim for a large sum through mediation for a woman whose distinguished career was cut short due to permanent damage caused…
The skill and knowledge of our in-house practice nurse was instrumental in successfully settling a claim for medical negligence by our client against a local NSW area health service and…
The tragic number of deaths at Newmarch House exposes all that is wrong with Australia’s residential aged care system and why the Australian government needs to undertake urgent reform to…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team has secured sizeable damages for our client after he was inappropriately prescribed Gentamicin whilst in hospital. What is Gentamicin? Gentamicin is a powerful antibiotic…
Thankfully, maternal deaths are rare in Australia. But the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Maternal deaths in Australia 2015-2017 show that, tragically, healthy women do still…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team has settled our client’s claim for a large sum after she suffered from the unnecessary administration of Gentamicin whilst in hospital. What is Gentamicin?…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team secured sizeable damages for a fistula, caused by a surgical error which robbed our client of his quality of life. 11 follow up surgeries…
The 2020 Newcastle Writers Festival tackled the issue of women’s chronic pain in a discussion titled How Our Bodies Shape Us featuring writers Gabrielle Jackson and Lee Kofman. In her…
An article last weekend in The Guardian newspaper again highlights the tragedy of Australia’s unacceptably high stillbirth rate. It tells the story of a mother, Anne-Marie, whose son Xavier was…
We have successfully settled a claim for a large sum for our clients against a regional hospital and a general practitioner for negligent hospital care. The personal injury claim and…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team settled a claim with a hospital during mediation for a large sum on behalf of a client who experienced inappropriate treatment with Gentamicin. What…
Catherine Henry Lawyers’ health law team settled a claim for a large sum on behalf of a successful businessman and talented musician whose life has been forever altered by excessive…
Today is World Health Day (7 April 2020) – a World Health Organisation auspiced international day - to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and remind world leaders of…
Summary of the Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2019 From July 1, 2020 new medical indemnity reform legislation will come into effect in Australia which will provide greater…
In NSW, abortion is legal – however this wasn’t always the case. Whilst abortion is a widely practiced medical procedure in NSW and the rest of Australia, until recently it…
We successfully settled our client’s claim for negligence for mental harm caused by mismanagement of her pregnancy which resulted in the tragic stillbirth of her daughter. Hospital failure to diagnose…
Your likelihood of having a preventable hospitalisation varies by where you live, and your circumstances, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released…
We have achieved a substantial settlement for our client who experienced continuous mismanagement and unnecessary surgeries by her gynaecologist, Dr Richard Reid, over 10 years. Catherine Henry Lawyers’ highly experienced…
We successfully resolved a claim for negligence leading to stillbirth caused by a hospital’s failure to diagnose and treat her pre-eclampsia and HELLP (Haemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes and Low Platelet)…
Leading health and medical lawyer Catherine Henry and her firm have both been recognised in the prestigious Doyles Guide lists of NSW’s top medical negligence and malpractice compensation lawyers and…
This week, Her Honour Justice Katzmann SC of the Federal Court delivered her judgment in Kathryn Gill & ORS v Ethicon Sarl & ORS, a class action against Johnson and…
We helped a woman successfully resolve a case against a regional public hospital (“the hospital”) in respect of a failed tubal ligation. Background The procedure was performed by a first-year…
Today is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Having worked with many women who have tragically experienced miscarriage, still birth or neonatal death in our work as health lawyers,…
We recently acted for the family members of a woman who successfully committed suicide while she was an inpatient at a mental health unit of a regional hospital. During her…
At the birth of their first child, our clients suffered terrible complications during labour and delivery at a Western Sydney hospital. The baby was ultimately born via emergency caesarean section…
This month’s ABC Four Corners program, Health Hazard, looked at how your postcode can determine the quality of healthcare you get. The day after, the Bureau of Health Information released…
We acted for a patient from Northern NSW who suffered numerous injuries connected to the use of pelvic mesh. After having four children, our client developed pelvic organ prolapse and…
We acted for a 70-year-old man from Northern NSW who suffered significant injury to his right knee, following a bilateral total knee replacement procedure (TKR). Our client underwent a TKR…
We sought damages for our client in a case brought in the Supreme Court of NSW for serious injury as a result of improper sepsis treatment. Our client had been…
Our client’s 73-year-old mother tragically passed away as a result of an undiagnosed bowel obstruction. After presenting to hospital three times in two weeks, our client’s mother was finally admitted…