Our practice is extensive and clients include some of the largest private clinical facilities in Australia (including hospitals, medical centres and clinics and pathology laboratories) and their insurers.
We also act for pharmaceutical, medical device and manufacturing companies in defending product liability claims. Kennedys has particular expertise in class actions.
We advise in clinical negligence matters:
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Across the full spectrum of clinical settings
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As they affect medical and health care professionals
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In claims ranging in severity from minor to catastrophic
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For diverse stakeholders in the sector
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In disciplinary proceedings and before registration boards
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In many leading cases
Work highlights
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Defending several of the largest claims recently brought before Courts in NSW concerning cerebral palsy arising from birth asphyxia, misdiagnosis, and pathology claims.
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Defending the leading wrongful birth cases.
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Acting on leading cases concerning a facility’s non-delegable duty of care to a patient and apportionment between the facility and treating visiting medical officer.
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Defending claims arising from surgical mishaps and post-surgical infections and other complications such as blindness, failed sterilisations, alleged poisoning following administration of therapeutic drugs, complications arising from elective plastic surgery, nervous shock and alleged failures to diagnose or misdiagnosis of terminal illnesses and chronic infection.