Expertise

Nadia has extensive experience representing clients who have sustained life changing injuries as a consequence of clinical negligence.

Nadia has significant experience of High Court litigation and in particular, cases involving complex causation arguments. Nadia specialises in spinal cord injuries and brain injuries and has particular expertise in cases involving stroke and cauda equina.

Nadia regularly speaks on issues such as patient safety, documentation and compliance to NHS Trusts, charities and private rehabilitation providers. She works collaboratively with organisations to support providing the best levels of care.

Recognition

Nadia is recognised as a ‘Leading Associate’ by Legal 500, having previously been ranked as a ‘key lawyer’.

“Nadia Krueger-Young’s client service and general level of service and level of sophistication are very strong. Nadia is an exceptional solicitor and a definite future partner. She is always completely on top of her cases. She is sensible, sensitive, intelligent and committed. She is the complete package in a clinical negligence solicitor and is going places.” (Chambers UK)

Experience

Nadia has settled a number of high value complex clinical negligence cases including:

• Crossman v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust [2016] EWHC 2878 (QB). Nadia acted for the claimant in this matter that was won at trial in the High Court. The claimant sustained nerve injury during spinal surgery and it was argued that but for the Claimant being put on the list for surgery in error, the injury would not have occurred.
• Acting for a claimant who was wrongly administered thrombolysis resulting in haemorrhagic stroke and brain damage.
• Acting for a claimant who sustained tetraplegia due to a failure to diagnose an unstable spinal cord injury.
• Acting for a claimant who had an ischemic stroke following a failure to diagnose and treat a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA).
• Acting for a claimant who sustained a stroke following a delay in diagnosis of endocarditis, including complex arguments on causation where the judgment of Crossman v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust was relied on.
• Acting for a claimants who suffered a delay in diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome, including the highest ever cauda equina settlement at Stewarts.

Career

Nadia started her career at Stewarts over 16 years ago, as a paralegal in the clinical negligence team. She started her training contract in 2010 and qualified as an NQ in 2012. Since then, Nadia been promoted to Associate and Senior Associate and has adopted senior roles in the department.

Publications and Media

Nadia has published on topics such as the importance of early rehabilitation, red flags symptoms of spinal cord injury and the Cauda Equina GIRFT Pathway:

Nadia regularly presents training to hospitals, medical originations and charities on risk management and ‘How not to get sued’. She has presented on ‘Cauda equina from a medico-legal perspective’ to hospitals and spinal injury charities.

Nadia is a regular guest speaker at the Doctors Updates, multidisciplinary annual medical conference, in Val d’isere.

Personal

Nadia is married with two young children. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, long walks, playing tennis and cycling.