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 incident that occurred at her place of work, Brightwater Selection, Judge Justice [...]
An unaccompanied learner driver who claimed she crashed because of an oil spill on a road has lost an appeal against a High Court decision rejecting her claim for compensation. Kellie Quinlivan’s action over the oil spill was one of three she took over road accidents in the last 12 years and the first in [...]
The Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) and the family of a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run accident have settled a compensation action in the High Court for €135,000 The court was informed that the driver of the car did not stop, fled the scene and is still untrace. He (the untraced driver) [...]
A coffee shop compensation claim action has been approved at the High Court €41,000 due to baby being allowed to pull a bowl of hot soup on top of himself in a coffee shop and sustained major burns. The boy, Otto Devine, was aged just six months when the accident occurred, leaving the boy with [...]
A boy who cut his knee – when he was attending an Art Camp in Dundrum, Dublin – during a fall on a tree stump at a has had a compensation settlement of €55,000 approved in the High Court. Just ten years old when the accident in question took place, Diarmuid O’Connor is now 15 [...]
A PTSD compensation award of €87,000 has been approved for a woman who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to seeing a partly decapitated body of a motorist when she arrived at the scene of a road traffic accident. The woman in question, Lisa Sheehan, began to experience moderately severe PTSD and had to [...]
A waitress who suffered a hand injury after a glass she was polishing broke has been awarded €50,000 work injury compensation at the Circuit Civil Court. It was ruled that 24-year-old former waitress Daniela Tricolici should have been given adequate safety training in relation to polishing wine glasses by her them employers Ravellos Restaurant in [...]
A woman has had her personal injury compensations award in relation to the whiplash injuries she sustained in a road traffic accident revised to €41,000 by the Court of Appeal. The decision was made at a hearing this week to review that car accident compensation award of approximately €70,000 which received High Court Approval in [...]
€12,000 workplace injury compensation has been awarded to a garda whose forearm was injured during a fighting incident by a colleague’s tiepin at the High Court. Legal counsel for Garda Nadine Keane Barrister Maria Lane informed the High Court that her client was in the process of assisting another garda restrain two men involved in [...]
AN UNINSURED driver who repeatedly flouted road traffic laws is a changed man since the birth of his granddaughter seven months ago, a court heard. Robert Dawson (35) was now a full-time carer for his grandchild, his lawyer said, had detoxed from drugs and was focused on keeping his life on the straight and narrow. [...]
