Insights & guides
Plain-English explainers on medical negligence claims — what you have to prove, how long you have, and what you can recover.
Nerve Damage After Surgery
A warned-of risk that happens without error is usually not a claim. An unwarned material risk, negligent technique or a missed injury can be — and why many nerve injuries fall under the 5% impairment threshold.
Hysterectomy & Gynaecological Surgery Injury
Ureter, bladder and bowel injury, surgery you may not have needed, organs removed without your agreement — when each is negligence in Victoria, and when it is not.
Bile Duct Injury After Gallbladder Surgery
A recognised complication is not the end of the question — whether the anatomy was confirmed, when the injury was found, and how fast you were referred.
Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Claims
A claim exists only where a parent has a recognised psychiatric injury and the care fell below standard — and in Victoria that injury needs no impairment assessment.
Monash IVF Embryo Mix-Ups
What the unreleased independent review and completed Victorian regulator investigation establish — and what partner-transfer patients should ask next.
IVF & Fertility Clinic Claims
When a fertility clinic's mistake may give rise to a claim — what you have to prove, how long you have, and what compensation can cover.
What Can Go Wrong in IVF
Embryo mix-ups, storage failures, genetic-testing errors — the failures that can support a claim, and the ones that generally cannot.
Is an IVF Mistake a Consumer Claim?
Private IVF is a service you paid for — so the consumer guarantees may apply alongside negligence, and a consent form cannot exclude them.
Time Limits for IVF & Fertility Claims
Three years — but from when you knew. Why that distinction matters more in fertility cases than almost anywhere else.
What Compensation Covers When an Embryo Is Lost
What an IVF claim can and cannot recover — and why nobody should quote you a figure from a website.
What Is the Clever Notice — and Why Does It Matter?
A formal settlement offer that puts the cost of delay on the other side — a way to resolve a claim without going to court.
How to Establish Medical Negligence
What you have to prove in a medical negligence claim — duty, breach, causation and loss — and how it is proven in practice.
How to Get Your Medical Records in Victoria
Two different laws, depending on who holds them — and why you can often skip the FOI fee at a public hospital entirely.
Known Complication or Medical Negligence?
A known complication can still involve medical negligence. Learn what the label means, what it does not prove, and when to seek a legal assessment.
Signed a Consent Form?
Signing a consent form does not prevent a medical negligence claim. Learn how consent, risk warnings and negligent treatment differ in Victoria.
Can You Sue a Victorian Public Hospital?
You can bring a medical negligence claim involving a Victorian public hospital. Learn who may be responsible and how claims differ from complaints.
Dr Jerry Schwartz Misconduct Finding
What NCAT found about conscious sedation for eight identified patients, and why compensation is not automatic.
Dental Nerve Damage Claims
When persistent numbness, tingling or pain after dental treatment may justify a negligence assessment in Victoria.
Retatrutide Liver Injury Claims
What is known about seven Victorian hospitalisations involving unapproved products labelled retatrutide, and when an injury may justify a legal assessment.
Your Medical Negligence Claim Was Rejected. What Now?
How to tell whether you were declined on merit, on cost or on time — and what each answer means for what you do next.
Why Do Law Firms Decline Medical Negligence Claims?
Victoria has no certificate of merit. What a firm is really weighing when it says no, and why that is about its risk rather than your treatment.
What Does It Cost to Investigate a Claim?
Records, the FOI fee, the cost of commencing — every disbursement with its source and the date it applies from.
Does a Rejected Claim Affect Your Time Limit?
A firm saying no does not pause the clock, and the months you spent waiting are not added back at the end.
Is Your Claim Too Small for a Lawyer to Take?
There is no minimum claim value in Victorian law. Why a real claim can still be uneconomic for a firm that bills by the hour.
Getting a Second Opinion on a Claim
What a second review involves, what to take to it, and what you are entitled to get back from the firm that turned you away.
Another Lawyer Rejected Your Claim?
Why legal costs make some claims commercially unviable — and why another firm's rejection may not be the final answer.
Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt Colonoscopy Recall
Were you recalled after a colonoscopy? What the 2026 misconduct finding means — and when to investigate an individual claim.
Baby Malakai's Coronial Finding
What the 2026 finding shows about care failures — and why a coroner's finding does not itself prove medical negligence.
Time Limits for Medical Negligence
How long you have to bring a medical negligence claim — the three-year rule, discoverability, the 12-year long-stop and exceptions.
What Compensation Can You Recover for Medical Negligence?
The kinds of loss you can claim in a Victorian medical negligence case — treatment costs, care, lost income and pain and suffering.
Birth Injury
What birth injury claims involve — from cerebral palsy to obstetric negligence — what you need to prove, and how Clever handles these cases.
Surgical Error
When avoidable harm during or after an operation gives rise to a claim — what you need to prove and what compensation can cover.
Misdiagnosis & Delayed Diagnosis
A condition missed, wrong, or caught too late — what makes a delayed diagnosis claim and what it takes to pursue one.
Medication Error
Wrong drug, wrong dose, dangerous interaction — when a medication error is medical negligence and how a claim works.
Hospital & GP Negligence
Failures of duty of care in hospital or general practice — what these claims look like and how they are pursued.