by Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor | Mar 24, 2022 | Personal Injury Claims, Workplace Injury Claims
After a workplace accident involved a collision with a door that smashed fours of her front teeth, IT worker Roseanna MacDonald has been awarded more than €16,500 personal injury compensation at the Circuit Civil Court. Despite being held partly to blame for the...
by Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor | Sep 2, 2021 | Workplace Injury Claims
€5,000 compensation for unfair dismissal has been awarded to Kenneth Folman, a former Bus Éireann worker who had been dismissed from his position following being disqualified from driving. Despite the WRC adjudication officer ruling, on an earlier occasion, that the...
by Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor | Dec 4, 2019 | Workplace Injury Claims
A former contractor has submitted a Facebook moderator claim against the social media platform’s Irish subsidiary in relation to psychological injuries he claims he sustained as a result of the work he was expected to carry out. He says that this work involved...
by Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor | Jun 13, 2019 | Compensation Claims, Injuries in Public Places, Workplace Injury Claims
A €290,000 work injury compensation settlement has been awarded to Sergeant Donal Cronin who sustained a knee injury during a violent struggle with a prisoner. Garda Cronin (50) was unable to carry out full policing duties due to his knee injury and end up missing out...
by Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor | Feb 12, 2019 | Compensation Claims, Personal Injury Claims, Workplace Injury Claims
A garda, who was knocked out in a savage attack by a gang of thugs, was awarded €38,500 attack at work compensation after he was left with significant injuries. A High Court judge was told Detective Garda Brian Dunne managed to save a dislodged tooth by pushing it...
by Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor | Feb 6, 2019 | Compensation Claims, Workplace Injury Claims
At the High Court a work injury compensation award of just under €40,000 has been approved for a 36-year-old garda who was attacked by a woman in a squad car. Judge Justice Tony O’Connor said at the High Court Garda Compensation hearing that Garda Sinead McBride, a...
