A woman, who cannot be named by order of the court, suffering with terminal ovarian cancer, has settled her High Court action against the HSE for €2million. She took the legal action in relation to an alleged failure to take…
If you have been the victim of wrong diagnosis medical negligence, it is possible to make a claim for compensation provided that it can be shown that you suffered an injury or the deterioration of an existing condition due to the misdiagnosis and “at the time in the same circumstances” an expert medical practitioner would have made a correct diagnosis of your condition.
This is not always a simple fact to establish, as mistakes can be made in laboratories and in administration departments which can provide misleading data to the medical practitioner making the diagnosis. It may also be the case that another medical professional has made a mistake – for example a radiologist in an Accident & Emergency department – which results in the attending medical practitioner to make a misdiagnosis.
Claims for wrong diagnosis medical negligence can also be affected by a plaintiff´s own negligence if they have failed to fully communicate their symptoms to a doctor or consultant and therefore an investigation into a claim for wrong diagnosis medical negligence can take a considerable amount of time to resolve.
Because of the complexity of making a claim for wrong diagnosis medical negligence, the Injuries Board Ireland will decline an application for assessment submitted to them and you will need a medical negligence solicitor to pursue compensation for wrong diagnosis medical negligence. As all medical negligence claims for a wrong diagnosis in Ireland are lengthy procedures, you are advised to speak with a medical negligence solicitor at the first possible opportunity.
A woman, who cannot be named by order of the court, suffering with terminal ovarian cancer, has settled her High Court action against the HSE for €2million. She took the legal action in relation to an alleged failure to take…
There have been renewed renewed calls made to Minister for Health Simon Harris to begin an investigation into the diagnosis of a number of breast cancer patients who were treated at St James’s Hospital in Dublin in 2010. A medical…
Bernadette Surlis, 60 years old, has seen her settlement of €5 million approved in her legal action against the Health Service Executive (HSE) for misdiagnosis negligence in the treatment she received at Sligo General Hospital in November 2013. Senior Counsel Mr Cush…
A legal expert speaking at a gathering of solicitors, medical professionals and patents in September said that approximately 1,000 unnecessary deaths are caused every year in Ireland due to medical error. Roger Murray, joint Managing Partner at Callan Tansey solicitors,…
A €5.6 million settlement of meningitis misdiagnosis compensation has been approved at the High Court in favour of a fifteen-year-old girl from County Cork. On July 2005, the concerned parents of a three-year-old girl from Ballinalough in County Cork phoned…
A woman has been awarded a €2.7 million compensation settlement after her cerebral subarachnoid haemorrhage went undiagnosed. When Paula Dundon, aged forty-two from Brownstone in Co. Kildare, was complaining of nauseousness and vomiting in June 2006, she went to Naas…
The High Court has approved an interim settlement of compensation for a claim made on behalf of a man who was left in a coma because medics failed to diagnose organ failure During October 2011, an operation was carried out…
Thousands of x-rays and scans at seven Irish hospitals are being reviewed and patients recalled after concerns were raised about radiologist negligence. The review of x-rays and scans was ordered by the Health Service Executive (HSE) following concerns were raised…
The High Court in Dublin has heard details of a claim for injuries caused by an inappropriate lumbar puncture procedure prior to approving a €3.7 million interim settlement of compensation. Eleven-year-old Matthew McGrath was just seventeen months of age when…
The family of a six-year-old girl, who were told their daughter was well enough to return home when suffering from pneumococcal meningitis, are to receive an anticipated seven figure payout in compensation for doctor misdiagnosis of meningitis. Kate Pierce was…