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The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal to reduce a general damages award from €155,000 to €95,000 on the basis that the trial judge did not properly assess general damages under the Book of Quantum. Further, the court held that the plaintiff was liable in contributory negligence for his accident and therefore had his

The walk from your bed to your desk could now count as a commute, according to a recent ruling from a German court. The court ruled that a man should be covered by his company’s insurance after he suffered a fall on the way to his home office. According to the decision issued last week

The High Court has refused an application by a hospital worker to quash a decision that prevented her from working from home. The applicant claimed that she was at high risk from Covid-19 due to her health history and that the hospital failed to comply with HSE requirements in making the decision. Delivering judgment in

A MAN who, as a teenager ended up blind and unable to walk after he went to Cork University Hospital (CUH) with a brain shunt problem, has settled a High Court action for €25million. Conor McCormack’s counsel told the court that in the hospital nothing was done for three weeks. As a result, Mr McCormack

A boy who was three years old when he had two accidents at a creche within a few months of each other has settled his High Court action for €56,000. Sonny Roe, who is now six years old, on the first occasion slipped in a sandpit and struck his head against logs around the edge.

Jason O’Sullivan, solicitor and public affairs consultant at J.O.S Solicitors, calls on Irish insurers to make good on their promises to lower premiums. The lobbying and public affairs industry in Ireland plays an important role in helping to shape public policy and legislative agendas. It is an important function for both commercial and not-for-profit entities

A hospital has apologised for the “failings in care” for a young mother who died of sepsis on Christmas Day three years ago. Karen McEvoy was only 24 and had given birth to her third child at the Coombe maternity hospital in Dublin just a week before. Her family, including her partner Barry Kelly and

A 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy has settled his High Court action for a record €30m over the circumstances of his birth at a Galway hospital. Oran Molloy from Birr, Co Offaly has spastic diplegia which affects all four limbs. Oran’s Counsel Denis McCullough SC told the court the boy’s settlement which was reached after

A court has ruled that a 39-year-old unemployed woman is not entitled to financial support from her retired father. The woman lives in Rome with her mother, who sought €900 per month in alimony from her husband, who separated from her and moved out of the family home in 2013. The case came to Italy’s