Personal Injury Claims
Compensation
What amount of compensation will a plaintiff get from a court in an Irish personal injury claim?
Holiday Hell?
Mount Etna has recently erupted and, currently, I do not know if there is a danger of pyroclastic flow onto the happy tourists of Catania in Sicily.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
In an action for damage arising from negligence the burden of proving negligence on the part of the Defendant lies on the Plaintiff.
Is HIV a Nosocomial Infection?
In 1994, in the UK, Dr. Imesh Gaud was prosecuted and convicted of public nuisance in circumstances where he continued as a surgeon knowing he was a Hepatitis B carrier.
Workers
I have written consistently in this website of the hazards of work. Those hazards are very old. The excavations of Pompeii revealed the skeleton of a sixteen year old boy whose upper torso was excessively developed from physical work in fishing and whose teeth on the right side of his mouth were worn down to nothing by gripping the lines used to catch the fish. (From âPompeii,:The Living Cityâ?, [2005] Butterworth & Laurence, Weidenfeld & Nicholson p. 240) In Ireland, […]
Let them eat chocolate!
What is the difference between poisoning the populace with dirty water and poisoning the populace with dirty chocolate?
You are Presumed to Know the Law
Without a lawyer, how is a claimant to know of the amendment of the Act of 2003 effected this month?
Patient Mishaps
What this means is that 24,382 patients received the wrong treatment.
Irredentist PIAB
What are the problems (statutorily enforced) that the Government has imposed on such plaintiffs?
Personal Injury – The Health Industry
Nurses as a group have a considerable level of complaint of low back pain, a sure sign of injury from excessive lifting.