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PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights-28 May 2026 In this issue: Clinical negligence Employer’s liability Claims involving a fatality Issues with service Other PI & Clinical Negligence News LexisNexis® Quantum Portal LexTalk® PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts LexisNexis® Webinars Useful information Clinical negligence County Court allows clinical negligence claim for delayed stroke diagnosis In Dakin v South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] Lexis Citation 1552, the County Court entered judgment for the claimant in a clinical negligence action centred on stroke causation. The defendant accepted a breach of duty for not arranging 24‑hour electrocardiogram monitoring after the 15 January 2016 consultation, but maintained that this omission did not cause the claimant’s stroke on 21 July 2016. The court determined the claimant experienced paroxysmal atrial fibrillation from May 2015 to July 2016, with symptoms manifesting several times per week between April and July 2016. It...

Limitation Limitation frequently arises in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) cases. Typical claimants were exposed to workplace noise far more than three years before approaching a solicitor about a claim. Consequently, they are often beyond the primary three-year personal injury period and must rely on the alternative date of knowledge in section 11(4)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980 (LA 1980). Under LA 1980, section 14, the date of knowledge is the date the person first knew: that the injury was significant; that the injury was caused, in whole or in part, by the act or omission alleged to constitute negligence, nuisance or breach of duty; and the defendant’s identity. Whether those acts or omissions did or did not, as a matter of law, involve negligence, nuisance or breach of duty is irrelevant...

Air conduction (AC) Sound is carried through the outer and middle ear before reaching the inner ear. A standard audiogram evaluates hearing via air conduction. Age-associated hearing loss (AAHL) Also termed presbycusis, this age-related hearing loss arises chiefly from ageing and usually impacts both ears to an equal extent. Air-bone gap (ABG) The value obtained by subtracting the HTL from the bone conduction reading from the HTL of the air conduction reading. Audiogram A pure tone audiogram is a graph of an individual’s hearing threshold levels for pure tones across different frequencies, displaying loss as a function of frequency, measured with an audiometer. Audiometer Pure tone audiometer — an electroacoustic instrument. For air conduction tests it uses a headset with two earphones delivering pure tones of specified frequencies at known sound pressure levels to establish hearing thresholds, one ear at a time. For bone conduction measurement the audiometer also includes a bone vibrator. Manual audiometer — an audiometer...

Within this Practice Note, noise-induced hearing loss is abbreviated to NIHL. It outlines the considerations that influence the assessment of general damages in NIHL matters, including Judicial College Guidelines (JCG), analogous earlier court judgments, and the severity of auditory impairment. The Note further addresses particular categories of special damages commonly applicable in such claims, the disablement benefit that a claimant might seek for hearing loss and/or tinnitus, together with alternative compensation schemes under which a claimant could make a claim. It also notes the extent of the hearing loss considered here...