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Motorcycling Doctor

Levenes' Birmingham office helped a young doctor from Leicester who was badly injured in a motor cycle accident to win compensation of more than £500,000 plus his legal costs.

Dr S aged 38, was using his motorbike to travel from his home in Leicester to the hospital in Lincoln where he worked in the casualty department when a car suddenly pulled out in front of him. Instead of arriving in Casualty to treat patients he found himself the patient as he was rushed to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham where he spent a month after suffering fractures and dislocations to his legs, knees and an ankle.

The doctor was in the early stages of his medical career and had the potential to be a very high earner, says Tim Beasley, Managing Partner at Levenes office in Birmingham. He is unlikely ever to be able to work full time, can expect to need further surgery in the future and is likely to have to retire early. But apart from the financial loss he is in constant pain and is unable to do the things that are part and parcel of the life of most men with a young family. Motorcyclists who have had their lives broken like this through the fault of negligent car drivers are entitled to compensation. The settlement has given Dr S financial security as he rebuilds his life.

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