Bowel Claims - Establishing Liability & Quantifying Loss

Introduction

This webinar is aimed at legal professionals involved in bringing or defending clinical negligence claims arising from bowel injury. It will explore potential breaches of duty and the expert evidence required to establish failures in care across both hospital and GP settings.

The webinar will consider a range of causes of action, including bariatric surgery, accidental bowel injury during childbirth, cholecystectomy cases and failures to diagnose malrotated bowel in neonates. The role and disciplines of appropriate experts will be discussed, alongside key issues of breach of duty and causation.

The likely quantum considerations and the expert evidence typically required in these cases will also summarily be discussed.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• How to use contemporary medical notes and witness evidence to establish the factual basis of any claim
• Assessment of possible breaches of duty with expert bowel and general surgeons
• Use of scans (including contrast scans) and the possible need for evidence from radiologists as to liability and/or quantum
• Overview of the particular problems of bariatric surgery and cholecystectomy, which are two of the common causes of bowel action claims
• Particular problems of quantification - uncertainties as to future care needs and earning capacity
• Life expectancy and the expert evidence needed to determine it

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 7th August 2026

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