Apr 20, 2021 | Medical Negligence
A profoundly disabled girl with cerebral palsy has secured a €23.5m settlement, the highest ever in a personal injuries action here, over alleged negligence in the circumstances of her birth at St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork, 16 years ago. The settlement for Kameela Kuye...
Mar 3, 2021 | Medical Negligence
The lethal toll the pandemic is having on patients with non-Covid illnesses is revealed in new figures showing almost a million hospital appointments have been cancelled. The damage inflicted as the health service wrestles with Covid-19 shows that 200,000 fewer...
Jan 26, 2021 | Medical Negligence
Emma has recently concluded a case where a claim was taken for negligence during a breast augmentation and uplift procedure. The claim was brought against the well known clinic and surgeon who carried out the surgery. Our client, a lady in her early 20’s attended at...
Jan 19, 2021 | Medical Negligence
A woman is killed by cervical cancer every two minutes around the world. The World Health Organisation has implemented plans to eradicate cervical cancer around the world – with public health professionals celebrating the move as an “unprecedented...
Nov 20, 2020 | Medical Negligence
CASE SUMMARY Professional Negligence Case – Solicitor Negligence – Statute of Limitations – Medical Negligence case that Solicitor allowed to become Statute Barred. FACTS Our Client was the victim of a surgery that went wrong. A Solicitor was consulted and accepted...
Sep 1, 2020 | Medical Negligence, News
Fewer than 100,000 people were checked under the State’s three cancer screening programmes in the first half of the year due to Covid-19 restrictions, new figures reveal. This compares to 500,000 people screened in all of 2019, and suggests that significantly fewer...
