A teenage girl who sued over the circumstances of her premature birth at a Limerick maternity hospital has settled her High Court action against the HSE on terms including an initial payout of €2.1 million. Katie McGuane and her twin brother were born prematurely in November 2003 but Katie’s twin died six days later, her [...]
Bobby and Rosie Powers launched Bloody Hell Hot Sauce in 2014 and approached the Ghostbusters star about a collaboration with his Crystal Head Vodka line. The Powers wanted to team up for a skull-themed Bloody Mary collaboration, but Aykroyd's team reportedly fired off a legal letter accusing the British couple of trademark infringement as their [...]
The High Court has approved a €15m settlement for a boy who was brain damaged at birth due to alleged medical negligence. Jack Leane, through his mother Annette Leane, Lawlor’s Cross, Killarney, Co Kerry, sued consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Barbara Kerkhoff, of Cork University Hospital (CUH), and the HSE over his care and treatment before [...]
Ms Gallagher was driving on the N59 Newport to Mulranny Road when her car veered on to the wrong side in to the path of a cement truck. An inquest jury, in 2011, returned a verdict that her death was accidental. Desmond O’Neill SC, for the family, told the court the matter had been settled [...]
This brings to €5.1m the total settlement in the case of Elaine Lennon. Mr Justice Peter Kelly noted Elaine Lennon, now 42, was a talented opera singer who was pursuing a masters in psychology when she suffered the injuries. A CT scan after her symptoms persisted indicated an abscess on her brain had burst. She [...]
A soldier whose parachute failed to open properly on his first training jump, has been awarded €80,000 in damages for injuries sustained because of the Army’s negligence. The soldier suffered a severe fracture dislocation of his ankle, and could no longer serve as a front-line soldier due to this injury. Mr Justice Bernard Barton found [...]
A woman who went in to hospital for a routine day procedure but ended up losing eight pints of blood when an artery was torn has been awarded over €855,000 by the High Court, writes Ann O'Loughlin. Mr Justice Kevin Cross said he accepted the expert evidence that Gina Van Amersfoorth's pain and suffering is [...]
The family of a young woman who died after her car veered on to the wrong side of the road and into the path of a cement truck, has alleged that her death arose from alleged negligence and failures to ensure the road was safe. Ashling Gallagher was killed instantly in the collision at Murrivaugh, [...]
A soldier who was in the Army Ranger unit when he dislocated his ankle in his first parachute jump has been awarded €80,000 damages by the High Court. Mr Justice Bernard Barton said Cpl Gerard Kirby is a career solider who considers the Army to be his life and whose disappointment at being unable to [...]
Irish film director Neil Jordan has settled his High Court action over a fall in front of a Dublin Bus in the city centre. Dublin Bus and one of its drivers had both denied liability over the incident, which involved no contact between the bus and Mr Jordan. No details of the settlement, reached after [...]