Recently we have been asked to advise on a very interesting matter in a cross-border personal injury case. The victim, a resident of the UK, was injured as a result of alleged medical negligence during breast surgery, performed in Poland. Compensatory claims for bodily injury and health disorder were pursued, however only out-of-court (proceedings have […]
Polish civil substantive law
The subject of Great Britain saying farewell to the European Union and the conditions on which it intends to do so to this day remains on the front pages of newspapers. It is a matter which the Brits, the Poles and the citizens of the remaining EU Member States care about on an almost equal […]
Medical negligence cases are the bread and butter for the Personal Injury Team at BFP. It has to be said however that cross-border medical negligence cases are overall far more scarce. It is never easy to write about such cases, as usually the consequences of medical negligence are dire. Nevertheless, we will do our best […]
In one of our cross-border road traffic accident cases, the personal injury team represented a client who was injured in a serious RTA that occurred in 2012 in Gdynia, Poland. Our client in this case was a citizen of the United States of America and a soldier of the elite Navy SEAL force. He was […]
As far as aviation personal injury cases are concerned, undoubtedly the most important and prominent one for our personal injury team would be the case of the emergency landing of a Boeing 767 aircraft at the Okęcie Airport in Warsaw in 2011. The aircraft, piloted by Captain Tadeusz Wrona, had a belly landing on 1 […]
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