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Gardai Receive Compensation Payments of 12 Million Euro in 2009
Controller and Auditor General has revealed that payments made under the Garda Siochana Compensation Acts for injury compensation claims amounted to 12...
HSA Launches New Farm Safety Guidelines
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched new farm safety guidelines with the support of farming organisations. Farms are the most dangerous...
Prison Officers Paid Over 2.5 Million Euro in Injury Compensation in 2009
Prison Officers were awarded over €2.5m in 2009 for injuries sustained in the line of duty. The awards were made to 112 prison officers, whose injuries at...
Ireland’s First Structured Injury Compensation Settlement Approved
The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, has approved one of Ireland's first ever structured personal injury compensation payment Iarnród...
HSA Launches Construction Safety Week
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched Construction Safety Week to reduce the number of construction accidents and construction accident claims....
Medical Negligence News
HSE Condemned by Ombudsman for Secrecy
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has received an extremely negative review from the Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly in the annual report of the Office of the...
Hospital Negligence Statute of Limitations Rules Updated
Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne has made an important ruling in the High Court regarding the definition of "date of knowledge" for medical negligence claims and...
High Court Settlement of 4.25 Million Euro for Birth Injury
Dermot Moylan of Mallow, County Cork, had a settlement of €4.25m settlement approved at the High Court by Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill for birth injuries....
Family Receives 564,000 Euro Compensation for Hospital Death
The family of Miriam Jackson of Navan, County Meath, has received a €564,000 High Court settlement following her death in September 2004 in Our Lady’s...
State Claims Agency Data Shows 15,000 Slips, Trips, and Falls in Irish Hospitals Annually
A report today for the Irish Patients Association by the State Claims Agency shows that there are an average of 15,000 slips, trips, and falls in Irish...
Latest Injury News
WRC Awards €50,000 Age Discrimination Compensation to Former RTÉ Reporter Valerie Cox
The Workplace Relations Commission awarded €50,000 to former RTÉ presenter Valerie Cox yesterday by after they found that she had been discriminated against...
Man ‘lucky to survive’ when tree fell on him during storm awarded €165k
A High Court Settlement for falling tree accident compensation of €165,000 has been approved for a man who experienced a number of severe injuries when a tree...
Work Assault Injury Compensation of €25k awarded to Garda After Head-Butt Injury
A head-butt injury to the nose of a garda sergeant, who experienced sever snoring issues as we result, has led to a Work Assault Injury Compensation of...
Almost €250m paid in Medical Negligence Claims during 2017
The State Claims Agency (SCA) has revealed that a record figure of €248.88m was paid in medical negligence claims during 2017. This figure is an increase of...
Garda Appeals for Right to Sue for Fingernail Injury Compensation
Garda Noel Callan, who suffered with a disfigured fingernail injury after a patrol car door slammed on the small finger of his left hand while he was tending...
Hospital Neglignce News
Cancer Misdiagnosis Settlement for Galway Woman
Camilla Freehill from Ballinasloe, County Galway, was finally able to resolve her High Court action of alleged medical negligence against the Health Service...
Brain Damaged at Birth Girl Receives 2 Million Euros Partial Settlement
A seven year old girl, brain damaged at birth due to a delayed delivery, has had an initial settlement of 2 million Euros approved in the High Court by Mr...
Two Million Euro Partial Settlement Paid for Birth Injury
Mister Justice John Quirke has approved a partial settlement of €2m in the High Court for Brid Courtney of Ardfert, County Kerry, who suffered a brain injury...
HSE Apologises For Surgical Errors: Admits Liability in High Court Case
The Health Services Executive (HSE) has apologised in the High Court for surgical errors that lead to the death of Michael Devane of Killarney, County Kerry....
464,000 Euro Settlement Approved for 14 Year Old Boy with Shoulder Dystocia
Mr Justice John Quirke was quoted as having “no hesitation” in approving an award of 464,000 Euros to 14-year-old Gavin Dowling as compensation for sustaining...
Multi Party Claims
DePuy Hip Implant Revision Surgery Commences
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has reported that the first revision surgeries for patients implanted with the recalled DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Systems...
Five Year Old Cerebral Palsy Girl Awarded 1.3 Million Euros Interim Settlement
Five year old Kate Murphy of Fethard, County Tipperary is to receive an interim compensation payment of 1.3 million Euros after South Tipperary General...
Hospital Negligence Led to Woman’s Death
The family of a woman who died from a heart attack after she was wrongfully discharged from hospital has won their compensation court case and are to receive...
‘Water on the Brain’ Birth Injury Girl Awarded 7 million Euros
A nine-year-old girl, who suffered devastating and permanent injuries due to the alleged failure of her physicians to treat her post natal hydrocephalus...
Failure to Diagnose in Opera Singer Case costs HSE Over 2 Million Euros
Thirty six year old Elaine Lennon was an award-winning opera singer, with a bright future ahead of her both as a singer and as a recently qualified...
Birth Injury News
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