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...
Jul 1, 2020 | Medical Negligence
The HSE has apologised and made a €4.6m interim payment to a boy who brought a High Court medical negligence claim over the circumstances of his birth at Cavan General Hospital. Tadgh James McKenna, who has cerebral palsy and requires constant care, had sued the HSE...
May 5, 2020 | Business Law, Conveyancing & Property, Defamation, Injury claims, Medical Negligence, News, Personal Law, Wills/Probate
With lockdown it is more important than ever to redouble our efforts and stay positive. If we have any message it is the importance of adapting and adopting new ways of maintaining momentum in both our personal and business lives. In short, think positively and,...
Mar 19, 2020 | Business Law, Conveyancing & Property, Defamation, Injury claims, Institutional and Residential Abuse, Medical Negligence, News, Personal Law, Wills/Probate
NOTICE OF INTENT: COVID 19 In light of the developing situation we will be issuing updates to our Clients and colleagues regarding the continuation of our services and those of the Service providers on whom we rely to ensure that the business you entrusted to us...
Feb 28, 2020 | Medical Negligence
An audit is under way to identify Irish children with severe scoliosis who were fitted with a particular type of titanium spinal support rod, which may now need to be removed. Irish surgeons have been contacted about faults in the Magec System Model X rods, which are...
Jan 31, 2020 | Medical Negligence
The family of a 76-year-old builder who died of sepsis following a routine hip replacement operation at a private hospital is to sue the facility for what it believes was a preventable death.John Brennan, from Portlaoise, Co Laois, died from sepsis triggered by...
Nov 22, 2019 | Medical Negligence
I am extremely grateful and impressed with the actions and tenacity of James McSweeney solicitors. Over what proved to be a very protracted and complex case, James and his team never lost focus or their commitment to me and my case, He composed a fantastic team of...
Nov 22, 2019 | Medical Negligence
An Australian court has found that Johnson & Johnson was “negligent” in supplying thousands of women pelvic meshes without adequate testing or health warnings, a ruling that exposes the firm to millions of dollars in damages. Federal Court Justice Anna Katzmann...
