Optician’s negligence can take many forms – whether it be failure or delay in diagnosis, failure to refer, failure to treat or treat correctly and incorrect laser eye surgery. Loss of eyesight will obviously likely have a huge impact on your client’s daily life; however, it can be difficult to distinguish the loss caused solely by the negligence.
Often a change in eyesight is the reason for consulting an optician and that change may be irreversible at this point. Temple’s clinical negligence ATE insurance for optician’s negligence will cover the cost of the required medical evidence in the event of a failure to beat a Part 36 offer or an unsuccessful outcome.
Our ATE insurance scheme provides full delegated authority; this allows you to concentrate on progressing the case and obtaining the best possible result for your client. Our underwriters have proven expertise and experience and the scheme is backed by an A-rated capacity provider.
There are no requirements to seek authority for incurring disbursements, making and rejecting Part 36 offers or issuing court proceedings, we simply ask that you update us at material stages as the case progresses through litigation. Other benefits we offer are:
Other advantages include:
For complex cases, our experienced team provides quick, commercial decisions to get your funding in place.
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Some of the key questions about optician’s negligence cases.