Hospital leaders remain very sorry for the death of an actor’s baby after his High Court bid for £10 million in lost earnings was rejected. 

Jamie King, who had appeared in Mad Men and The Tudors, claimed he missed out on the chance of a role in the Oscar-winning film Dunkirk when his five-day-old son Benjamin died. The newborn is likely to have been deprived of oxygen after his mother, Canadian actor Tamara Podemski, had her C-section delayed by 12 hours despite being 14 days overdue, an inquest found in 2017.  The Royal United Hospital Trust later admitted liability for Benjamin’s death, accepting that if he had been delivered earlier he would have survived. The trust said it made changes in maternity care as a direct result of the case. 

Mr King’s lawyers had said he was on the “verge of a big break” before his son’s death and sought nearly £10 million in lost earnings. Stephen Sumner, LDRS