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Richard Earle is a senior associate who specialises in medical negligence compensation claims and personal injury compensation claims.  

Richard’s cases cover many areas, including:

The Legal 500 directory said “Richard Earle is singled out for his ‘smooth and thorough’ approach”.

It also says that Richard 'handles the most complicated cases with great competence and instils confidence in his clients'.

Richard’s recent cases include:

  • settling two claims for brain injured children, both for £1 million lump sum damages plus periodical payments. The first case was for a boy who suffered damage after contracting the herpes virus at the age of six (overall value £3.85 million). The other case for a boy who suffered brain damage prior to and during his delivery, leaving him with dyskinetic and athetoid cerebral palsy (overall value £2.25 million).
  • settling an ophthalmic case following injury caused by diabetic retinopathy for £300,000
  • settling a personal injury claim for £250,000 after a man died as a result of another person’s driving negligence
  • settling a medical negligence claim for £220,000 after a man was misdiagnosed as suffering from colitis instead of bowel cancer from which he died as a result
  • settling a medical negligence claim for £130,000 where a man admitted to an A&E ward died following failure to act on the fact that his airway was partially obstructed
  • settling a claim for £125,000 damages where a patient was diagnosed incorrectly and underwent unnecessary surgery, leaving her with recurrent aches and pains as well as emotional distress.

Chambers Legal Directory says "Richard Earle is known as a "methodical and careful" practitioner."

Richard is a member of AvMA (Association against Medical Accidents) and the Law Society's Clinical Negligence Panel. He is also a Senior Litigator of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

If you would like to discuss a medical negligence compensation claim or a personal injury compensation claim with Richard please don't hesitate to call him on
020 7861 4041 or email richard.earle@ffw.com