Addies Solicitors handles the full gamut of clinical negligence cases and inquests concerning children, with particular emphasis on birth injuries. Described by clients as a ‘fountain of medical knowledge’, Diane Rostron heads up the practice from Blackpool, and is known for her longstanding expertise in birth injury and psychiatric injury claims. Alison Battersby is an expert in Court of Protection matters, assisting clients with the full range of post-settlement issues. Eleanor Rostron is noted for her strong focus on early neonatal death and avoidable stillbirth cases, in addition to her handling of delayed cancer diagnosis claims.
Testimonials
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‘Diane Rostron is simply superb. She has outstanding client communication skills for what are inevitably the most difficult and distressing of cases, and has an absolute dogged determination to get the best results.’
‘Diane Rostron is a fountain of medical knowledge, tactical acumen and tireless enthusiasm for the task in hand.’
Work highlights
- Represented a child who sustained brain damage just before birth due to a preventable delay in his delivery at the Ormskirk and District General Hospital.
- Represented the parents at the inquest of their daughter who died one day after her birth.