Field Fisher Waterhouse Client Donates to Hospital That Saved Him

Duncan MacDougall, a man who survived afterwards a duke blaze he was battlefront backfired into his abdomen, has aloft ?50,000 for the hospital that adored his life. Two years on from his accident, Duncan抯 donations beggarly that Wexham Park Hospital will be able to buy basic new accessories for its Intensive Care Unit.

In April 2006 Duncan was demonstrating a duke blaze for the purpose of a training video. When he accursed the flare, instead of battlefront into the air and abroad from Duncan it backfired into his abdomen. This acquired cogent accident to Duncan抯 appropriate duke and abdomen and he was accepted Wexham Park Hospital area he remained for nine months.

Following his accident, which larboard Duncan in cogent pain, law close Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP were instructed to accompany a affirmation adjoin the manufacturers of the flare, Pains Wessex. Field Fisher Waterhouse brought a affirmation beneath the Consumer Protection Act 1997. The affirmation was acclimatized with Pains Wessex acceptance abounding liability. Duncan accustomed a abundant sum in compensation.

Despite his injuries Duncan was bent to accession money for the Intensive Care Unit that advised him and has spent the endure six months adopting money. Family, accompany and able-bodied wishers helped get the armamentarium started, with abutment from the Chiltern Shakespeare Company, who donated the accumulation from the summer appearance of A Midsummer Night抯 Dream. Duncan aloft money through alignment and assuming in a song and ball black and hosting a summer ball.

Paul McNeil, accomplice in Personal Injury Group and Field Fisher Waterhouse said: 揥e are actual afflicted by all of the fundraising that Duncan has undertaken. The severity of his injuries meant that he was kept breath on a chase for allotment of his break at Wexham Park. The plan that he has done agency that the hospital will be able to buy an added chase and three new carriageable ventilators - a abundant achievement.?

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