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Young chronic pain sufferer awarded £1/2m
20 December 2010

Marcus Grant, instructed by Tom Ranson of Ashton Graham, appeared for the Claimant in a chronic pain case before HHJ Reddihough sitting in the Reading County Court. Aged 20 at the time of a rear-end shunting car accident in February 2003, the Claimant was awarded c. £37,000 in 2007 in respect of past losses in a trial on a preliminary issue of clinical causation. On 20.12.10 he was awarded a further c. £461,000 in respect of the balance of his claim after a fiercely contested 5-day trial. The Court accepted the evidence of Dr. Pither FRCA and preferred the evidence of Dr. Davies FRCPsych to that of Dr. Wood FRCPsych and found the Claimant and his family honest and reliable witnesses. The Defendant's positive case that all of the Claimant's symptoms were attributable to a pre-existing and unrelated Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder was rejected.  

Middleton v. Thompson & Fortis Insurance (20.12.10 Unrep)