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A boxer who suffered a life-changing brain injury in a fight nearly 10 years ago has settled a High Court claim involving allegations of delays to treatment.<\/p>\n
Jerome Wilson, from Sheffield, was 29 when he was knocked out in the sixth round of a fight with Cameroonian Serge Ambomo at at the city’s Ice Arena on 12 September 2014.<\/p>\n
He was taken to hospital and underwent what his promoter described at the time as a “life-saving brain operation” before being placed in a medically induced coma.<\/p>\n
At a remote hearing on Wednesday, a judge approved the settlement of a civil claim, brought by Mr Wilson and supported by his mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The claim was brought against the British Boxing Board of Control, Dr Carl Hutson, Inter-County Paramedics Limited and David Coldwell.<\/p>\n
According to a subsequent written court order, the confidential settlement was reached in a claim “arising from injuries sustained by Mr Wilson, a professional boxer, in a boxing match organised and managed by the defendants and involving allegations of delays to treatment”.<\/p>\n
A trial of the claim, which was due to start in October, will now not go ahead.<\/p>\n