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Personal injury lawyers from a UK legal firm have won a client more than £800,000 in a settlement of her compensation claim, according to recent press.
The female claimant had started an unusual diet in which she had to drink large amounts of water and reduce the salt in her diet. This was shown to have led to the condition hyponatraemia - effectively a water overdose - and permanent brain damage that left the claimant unable to continue in her line of work.
The woman's husband said, "You try not to waste energy thinking why this has happened but you can't help searching for reasons for this punishment.
"Now, I just want to tell people that they have got to be careful. We're always hearing that we should drink more water but we're never given an upper limit, never told that it's easy to overdo things and that you shouldn't drink too much. I think they need to represent a worst-case scenario."
He added that his wife was only trying to lose a little weight. "She was not obese or even mildly obese but, like a lot of women, she liked to watch her weight and was not having much success with the normal way of doing that."
The damages awarded in settlement of the compensation claim, which have been ratified by the courts, will be paid by the therapist's insurance company.
The defendant's lawyers said, "On behalf of our client we wish to make it clear that all allegations of substandard practice made [...] in the litigation have always been and continue to remain firmly denied."
They added that "the settlement amount agreed to be paid was less than half the total amount claimed and the compromise which was offered and accepted was on the basis of no admission of liability."
They then said that, as far as they were concerned, the personal injury case was now closed.
