Carol leads Cooper Grace Ward’s specialist health law team. She has 15 years of experience in personal injuries litigation and more than 10 of these years purely in the area of health law and medical negligence claims.

Carol’s legal expertise is grounded in direct clinical experience. She qualified as a registered nurse in 1983 and worked in variety of settings in a major Queensland public hospital. Carol’s clients appreciate her practical understanding of their work and their professional environment.

Her areas of specialisation include:

• Health and aged care
• Medical negligence
• Coronial inquests
• Professional registration boards
• Complaints management
• Risk management
• Health care product failures.

Carol’s medical negligence claims experience includes:

• general expedited cancer claims
• specialised cancer services claims (she is a nominated BreastScreen lawyer)
• catastrophic claims involving brain damage and paraplegia
• wrongful birth claims
• failed sterilisation claims
• orthopaedic claims
• dependency claims
• absconding psychiatric/suicide claims
• complex birth/death injury claims
• failure to warn claims
• surgical claims, for example perforation.

Carol has acted in a number of high profile Coronial Inquests. She has represented Queensland Health and indemnified individuals before various professional registration boards, Coronial Inquests, Health Quality & Complaints Commission proceedings and resultant claims.

Carol has been independently ranked as one of Australia’s leading lawyers in the area of health and aged care (Best Lawyers Guide Australia, 2008 and 2009).