Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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952 Million Pounds for Maternity Related Damages
Solicitor bertie lee says midwives deliver most babies. Midwife's salaries alone are over a billion pounds, and for more than the n h s pays out each year for maternity related damages. 952 million pounds is the total of payments made in one particular year as a result of previous court settlements or awards. It doesn't measure the fin ta liability of new mistakes being made that year.
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