Witness to road crash awarded €87,000 in PTSD compensation claim

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 [...]

By |2024-09-15T18:08:27+01:00January 20th, 2024|Road Traffic Accident|Comments Off on Witness to road crash awarded €87,000 in PTSD compensation claim

High Court action settled for €135,000 in favour of dead woman’s family

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 [...]

By |2024-09-15T18:16:23+01:00November 8th, 2023|High Court, Road Traffic Accident|Comments Off on High Court action settled for €135,000 in favour of dead woman’s family

Unaccompanied learner driver loses appeal against compensation rejection

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 [...]

By |2024-09-15T18:17:04+01:00October 16th, 2023|Learner Driver|Comments Off on Unaccompanied learner driver loses appeal against compensation rejection
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