I am sorry to hear of your Mum's death in such distressing circumstances
Obviously also it might have been better for her to take legal advice about a pay out before her death she must have been aware a 'mistake' had been made.
Mistakes by Doctors are paid for to put the patient back in the position she was before the mistake was made. The shadows in her lungs were cancers and if she went to the doctor with them already there, then she was unlikely to live very long
and you add �3500 for wrongful death and it all adds up to not very much.
No-one should have told the poor old lady that the mistake was so bad that it would pay off her own mortgage and that of her three children, and be a long term bank roll for the grandchildren.
Court pay outs dont work like that .
When my sister broke her back in a car accident - her comment was : this car is going to go into us....
she later said, look I havent gained anything.
I have a new car but the old one was a write off
and I was paid for 12 weeks off work, not very much as I got statutory sick pay and sickness insurance.
Honestly PP I have got nothing out of this.
and I said, this is how it is meant to work.........
PP