{"id":10355,"date":"2017-01-24T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T08:26:00","slug":"my-hospital-or-doctor-was-negligent-with-me-what-compensation-can-i-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/2017\/01\/24\/my-hospital-or-doctor-was-negligent-with-me-what-compensation-can-i-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"My hospital or Doctor was negligent with me: what compensation can I claim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel like your hospital or Doctor was negligent in your care, which resulted in physical and\/or psychological harm, you may be eligible for compensation. Compensation doesn\u2019t just help cover additional medical expenses you incur as a result of your negligent care. It takes into consideration a number of things and can help cover:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>The pain and suffering you have endured and will continue to endure (if the harm is permanent), including, but not limited to:\n<ul>\n<li>your loss of enjoyment of life, such as your inability to undertake recreational and sports activities<\/li>\n<li>Physical scarring or damage<\/li>\n<li>A breakup of your marriage\/domestic partnership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The voluntary care or assistance your spouse, children or parents provided you, that you would have normally done yourself had you not been injured.<\/li>\n<li>The paid domestic and other care you had to have, such as cleaning and gardening.<\/li>\n<li>Your medical and pharmaceutical expenses. This would cover things like doctors, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medication or anything else you have undergone as a result of your injury.<\/li>\n<li>Loss of wages and superannuation, both for the past as well as any loss to future earning capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Future medical expenses that may be needed and any modifications to your house or vehicle that are required because of your injury.<\/li>\n<li>Any special equipment that you may need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Ester Huxtable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/team\/ester-huxtable\/\">Ester Huxtable<\/a>, Special Counsel at Hume Taylor &amp; Co, is highly experienced in medical negligence cases and is able to help you navigate the system and obtain the information required to determine if you are eligible for compensation. Make a no obligation, <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/contact\/\">free appointment<\/a> to speak to her today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel like your hospital or Doctor was negligent in your care, which resulted in physical and\/or psychological harm, you may be eligible for compensation. Compensation doesn\u2019t just help cover additional medical expenses you incur as a result of your negligent care. It takes into consideration a number of things and can help cover: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,84],"tags":[54,60,108,109,110],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-injury","category-uncategorized","tag-compensation","tag-medical-expenses","tag-negligent","tag-physical-harm","tag-psychological-harm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humetaylor.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}