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The leading team here at Your Lawyers – The Data Leak Lawyers – was proud to have been able to achieve over £20,000 in settlement for a serious medical data breach case for a client we represented.
Given the extent of the damages involved in this case, it is easy to see how substantial this particular claim was and how significant the impact was on our client.
Sending data to the wrong person can have catastrophic consequences for the victim, which was seen in a previous case that we settled for well over £25,000 in damages for.
We previously settled a claim for a client of ours who had been subject to a confidential adoption information breach in the sum of £15,000.
This substantial award reflected the significance of the information in question and the impact that our client suffered. As you can imagine, this kind of information is precisely the sort that we want to maintain strict confidentiality over. For it to be exposed through negligence warrants a claim for compensation.
settlement is just over £6,000 pounds in
As Leading Data Leak Lawyers representing thousands of clients engaged in compensation cases in the UK, we knew that we were able to help our client in this matter to achieve the settlement that they deserved.
In respect of any breaches involving particularly personal and sensitive information, compensation pay-outs can be substantial. We have settled a number of cases for over £12,000.
This is above our average and reflects the nature of the seriousness of such breaches, and it is also likely more than what some other law firms may be prepared to settle similar cases for. We know this because we are aware of other law firms settling claims for reduced amounts or taking earlier offers, whereas we are prepared to fight harder to make sure we get the best justice possible.
The leading team at Your Lawyers – the Data Leak Lawyers – previously recovered over £10,000 in damages for a client we represented in a matter involving the disclosure of sensitive employment information.
The impact on our client was substantial because healthcare data was involved, and this sort of case can attract much higher awards. Some awards can be in excess of £10,000 to reflect the significance of any distress that has been suffered.
When disclosures in court proceedings are wrong, this could result in private information being misused or exposed. This happened to a client of ours and we were able to recover £10,000 in settlement for their damages claim.
This particular pay-out reflects the significance of the impact on our client owing to the nature of the particularly personal and sensitive information that was disclosed. We represented our client on a No Win, No Fee basis, having risk assessed the matter. We are pleased that we were able to obtain a fantastic settlement to compensate them for what happened.
The team here at Your Lawyers – the Data Leak Lawyers – were pleased to have recovered well over £20,000 in damages for a client in respect of a matter involving social services disclosing data without consent.
This was a particularly severe case in which very personal and sensitive information was disclosed in a context that caused significant problems for our client.
Our team previously recovered £11,000 in settlement of a workplace medical data breach compensation case which had a significant impact on our client.
Medical data is some of the most personal and sensitive information that there can be about us, so for this to be misused or exposed in a workplace setting can cause considerable distress. That is why in a case of this nature we are often able to recover substantial damages as we were able to do so for our client in this particular matter.
The leading team at Your Lawyers – The Data Leak Lawyers – were pleased to be able to secure a damages settlement well in excess of £13,000 as a result of a data breach by social services.
We were pleased to have been able to recover over £10,000 in damages for a client who was affected by an incident of sending sensitive data to the wrong recipients.
In a matter of this nature, the impact on the victim can be substantial, depending on the nature of the information that has been affected. That is why, for some claims, we are able to recover substantial damages, as we were able to in this particular case.
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