Dec 4, 2018 | Medical Negligence
A Dublin medical clinic and a consultant have apologised in the High Court to a woman who went in to the private hospital for a keyhole procedure but suffered a perforation to her colon. Lisa Albery’s senior counsel Jeremy Maher told the court the 49-year old...Nov 8, 2018 | Medical Negligence
People with “little knowledge of the basics of medicine” are being allowed to work in hospitals here due to “defective” recruitment in the HSE, a leading judge warned. High Court President Mr Justice Peter Kelly warned starkly of the “obvious danger to patients” as...Oct 16, 2018 | Medical Negligence
Medication safety at a number of hospitals has been criticised in a series of inspection reports published by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa). Hiqa inspectors who visited Letterkenny University Hospital found an absence of clear direction or...Aug 31, 2018 | Medical Negligence
A number of children received a double dose of the controversial swine flu vaccine, which is now at the centre of a global controversy over the sleep disorder narcolepsy, the Irish Independent can reveal. The HSE provided doctors with stockpiles of the vaccine when...Jul 19, 2018 | Medical Negligence
US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay out $4.69 billion (€4 billion) in damages in a lawsuit representing 22 women and their families who alleged a talc sold by the company contained asbestos and caused them to suffer cancer. It is the...Jul 10, 2018 | Medical Negligence
A disabled 4-year-old boy who sued over the circumstances of his birth at Midwestern Regional Maternity Hospital in Limerick has secured a total €17.2 million in final settlement of his legal action. The settlement, against the HSE, was achieved following mediation. A...Jun 19, 2018 | Medical Negligence
A Co Dublin woman who was “afraid to smile” following a treatment on one of her teeth has settled a €60,000 negligence claim against her former dentist over the incident for an undisclosed sum. The woman, Roisin Mimnagh (50), of Marina Village, Malahide, claimed in...Jun 12, 2018 | Medical Negligence
The widow of a 42-year old father of three who died of a heart attack three weeks after presenting to his GP with pain in his chest and arms has secured a €800,000 settlement of her High Court action over his death. Allison Ryan’s counsel Bruce Antoniotti SC said...Jun 6, 2018 | Medical Negligence
A man who sued a GP and the HSE after his wife died just a day after a blood test showed she had low levels of potassium has settled his High Court action for €850,000. The court was told that mother-of-four Maureen O’Sullivan, who was in her 50s, should have...
