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Laura Owen
Biography
Laura qualified as a solicitor in 2005. She worked for a high street firm before joining Stephensons in May 2012. Laura specialised in family law but joined the clinical negligence department in May 2016 to pursue a change in direction of her career. She initially assisted the other fee earners before building her own caseload. Laura briefly left the firm in late 2020 to work for a local clinical negligence practice but returned to the team in July 2021.
Laura has a varied caseload of clinical negligence claims including:
- Delay in diagnosis of strokes
- Orthopaedic injury
- Delay in diagnosis of cancer
- Misdiagnosis
Cases of interest
Laura has assisted on:
- A cerebral palsy case arising out of treatment during labour and delivery. The case settled for approximately £2.6 million
- A brain injury case arising out of treatment following surgery. The case settled for approximately £3.4 million
Laura’s cases:
- Laura settled a claim in the sum of £15,000 for a delay in the diagnosis of lung cancer
- Laura settled a claim in the sum of £17,000 for the delay in diagnosing and treating a retinal detachment
- Laura settled a claim in the sum of £20,000 for psychiatric injury caused to a client following them waking during surgery
- Laura settled a claim in the sum of £20,000 for the avoidable stillbirth of a baby
- Laura settled a claim in the sum of £15,000 for the delay in diagnosis of bladder cancer