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16 December 2025
compensation for garda assaulted while off duty
Amy Connolly, Rebekah Jefferson and the Litigation Team at Cantillons Solicitors recently successfully obtained significant compensation for a Garda client who suffered injuries when she was assaulted while off duty. In summary, our client was violently assaulted while socialising (off duty) with a friend. The offenders caused serious injuries to our client upon the discovery […]
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compensation for worker injured on boat
Jody Cantillon and the Litigation Team at Cantillons Solicitors recently obtained significant compensation in a case for a client who suffered injuries while working on a ship at sea. In summary, our client was crushed between 2 boats during the course of our client’s employment. Cantillons Solicitors instructed an Expert Engineer and Marine Surveyor who […]
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20 November 2025
settlement for inspirational young woman with cerebral palsy
Karen Kearney, Tricia Sisk, April Wiseman and the team recently settled a claim for €5 million for a gorgeous client of ours. We applied for and were granted a Section 27 Order by the Judge who approved the settlement and which Order serves to protect our client’s anonymity. Our client, now aged 16, suffered a […]
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4 November 2025
young man settles his case against the hse regarding eye injuries post shunt surgery at mediation for a significant sum
A young man in his 30s approached Orla Kelly, Partner in the Medical Negligence Department, in despair when he developed significant injuries to his eyes which rendered him what would be classed as blind following shunt surgery. His family and in particular his mother had suspicions that something went wrong in the aftermath of surgery […]
Read More 23 October 2025
€7m settlement for child with cerebral palsy over substandard care in hospitals following his birth
Marian Fogarty, Ger Falvey and the team at Cantillons were delighted to secure this substantial settlement for our client in what was a complex and very sad case. The Plaintiff, through his father, brought High Court personal injury proceedings against two hospitals, in respect of avoidable catastrophic injuries he acquired in the neonatal period as […]
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22 July 2025
compensation for social worker assaulted by resident
Jody Cantillon and the Litigation Team at Cantillons Solicitors recently successfully obtained significant compensation for a client who suffered injuries when she was assaulted while carrying out her duties as a Social Worker. In summary, our client was working for a State Body which oversaw the placing of children in care. While in one of […]
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26 May 2025
substantial compensation for client with kidney donor transplant prescribed contraindicated antibiotics by her gp and her treating hospital
Karen Kearney and her team Tricia Sisk and April Wiseman secured compensation for the physical and psychological injuries suffered by our client, as well as securing reimbursement for the GP fees, hospital fees, travel and subsistence and loss of earnings incurred by her, at settlement talks with the Defendants in April 2025, some two weeks […]
Read More 22 May 2025
mother whose daughter died as a result of substandard care settles her action and issues plea to the minister for health to examine similar cases.
Leslieann McGeough lost her beautiful and vivacious daughter Abi on the 9th May 2020, as a result of substandard medical care. Abi was only 12 years of age at the time of her death. When Abi passed Leslieann felt strongly there were shortcomings in her daughter’s care yet the hospitals did not provide her with […]
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15 May 2025
young boy who sued children’s health ireland settles action with €3m interim payment
See below link to media coverage of settlement in a case taken for a young boy who sued Children’s Health Ireland. https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/05/15/boy-8-who-sued-childrens-health-ireland-settles-action-with-2m-interim-payment/ Contact us at Cantillons Solicitors at +353 (0)21 4275673 or info@cantillons.com if you would like more information. * In contentious business, a Solicitor may not calculate fees or other charges as a percentage or proportion […]
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7 May 2025
substantial compensation for hospital failure to treat abscess
Karen Kearney and her team secured compensation, to include reimbursement of her doctors’ fees, medication costs, for a young woman who was negligently treated when she attended hospital with a parotid abscess (an abscess in her parotid gland), evidenced by swelling on the side of her face and which the hospital failed to diagnose and […]
Read More 7 May 2025
compensation for delay in diagnosing and treating an ovarian cyst in young woman
In April 2024, Karen Kearney and her team achieved compensation in a medical negligence case for a client whose ovarian cyst was misdiagnosed as constipation by treating doctors in a HSE run hospital. This misdiagnosis was made despite the severe abdominal pain she was in. The expert we instructed to review the care afforded to […]
Read More 7 May 2025
significant compensation for medical negligence involving strokes caused by anaesthetist’s negligence
On the 27th February 2025, Karen Kearney, Ernest Cantillon and Karen’s team Tricia Sisk and April Wiseman successfully settled a medical negligence claim for a gentleman who suffered 2 strokes in hospital due to medical negligence. Our client had been admitted to a private hospital with abdominal pain and a decision was made to carry […]
Read More 13 March 2025
compensation for client following undiagnosed cleft palate
Lyndy Cantillon and her team in the Medical Negligence Department of Cantillons Solicitors recently represented a young boy from Charleville Co. Cork who was born with a cleft palate that went undiagnosed and untreated for 19 months. See below media coverage of the case. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41592241.html Contact us at Cantillons Solicitors at +353 (0)21 4275673 or info@cantillons.com if […]
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23 January 2025
compensation for 82 year old client following life changing injury due to negligence during gastroscopy procedure
Karen Kearney, Ernest Cantillon and Karen’s team Tricia Sisk and April Wiseman were delighted to settle our client’s case in the High Court in Dublin for substantial damages on the 21st of January 2025. Briefly, in 2022, our client’s General Medical Practitioner referred her to Sligo University Hospital (SUH) for endoscopic investigation of epigastric pain […]
Read More 16 January 2025
‘the end of a long journey’: family settle case against hse over death of father
The family’s counsel Liam Reidy SC, instructed by Cantillons Solicitors, told the court it was their case that Mr. Nolan died as a result of complications of a heart attack and that this could have been avoided. See link for full article: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41554537.html Contact us at Cantillons Solicitors at +353 (0)21 4275673 or info@cantillons.com if you would […]
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13 November 2024
significant compensation for client involved in single car accident
Jody Cantillon and the Litigation team at Cantillons recently successfully obtained 7 figure compensation for a client who suffered injury, loss and damage as a result of a road traffic accident in Limerick. Our client was a passenger in a car being driven late at night. The driver of the car was under the influence […]
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11 November 2024
compensation for healthcare worker injured at work
Jody Cantillon and the litigation team at Cantillons Solicitors recently obtained significant compensation our client who suffered injuries following an accident at work. Our client was a Healthcare Worker. During the course of their employment, they needed to get supplies from a storeroom. Our client’s employer stored a number of items at a height but […]
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11 November 2024
compensation for client who fell at work
Jody Cantillon and the litigation team of Cantillons Solicitors recently successfully obtained significant compensation for a client who suffered injuries following a fall at work. In summary, our client was walking through the car park at their place of work when they fell because of a defect in the ground. Our client suffered considerable injuries […]
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11 November 2024
compensation for client who tripped on faulty footpath
Jody Cantillon and the litigation team at Cantillons Solicitors recently obtained significant compensation for our client who suffered injury, loss and damage as a result of a fall on a footpath in Cork. In summary, our client was walking along a footpath when they were caused to trip and fall on a lip on the […]
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3 September 2024
significant compensation for client involved in car accident
Amy Connolly and the Litigation Team at Cantillons Solicitors, recently successfully obtained significant compensation for a client who suffered injuries, loss and damage as a result of a road traffic accident in Galway. In summary, our client was stationary in traffic when a car being driven by the Defendant crossed her path into oncoming traffic. […]
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3 September 2024
compensation for client injured in an accident at work
Amy Connolly and the Litigation Team of Cantillons Solicitors, recently successfully obtained significant compensation for a client who suffered injuries, loss and damage following an accident at work. In summary, our client was caused to suffer a serious head injury when the door of a piece of equipment rebounded and collided with her forehead, as […]
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3 September 2024
significant compensation for client who fell over a pallet placed outside a petrol station
Amy Connolly and the Litigation Team at Cantillons Solicitors recently successfully obtained significant compensation for a client who suffered injury, loss and damage following a fall which she suffered at the entrance of a petrol station. In summary, our client was caused to trip and fall over a pallet which had been placed near the […]
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28 August 2024
settlement for lady following negligent prescription of oral contraceptive
Orla Kelly and Angela O’Donovan in the Medical Negligence Department recently acted on behalf of a lovely lady who was negligently prescribed an oral contraceptive which was inappropriate for her, by her Consultant Gynaecologist. As a result, the Plaintiff developed bilateral multiple pulmonary emboli. Thankfully she received treatment quickly which saved her life. However, the […]
Read More 18 July 2024
young girl’s erbs palsy case settles against the national maternity hospital.
The Plaintiff, through her mother, brought High Court personal injury proceedings against the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), in respect of avoidable injuries acquired during her daughter’s delivery at the Defendant hospital. The Plaintiff suffered a permanent brachial plexus injury to her right shoulder during her birth when shoulder dystocia occurred. The Plaintiff’s case centred on […]
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16 May 2024
garda receives compensation
Liam Dunford and Ernest Cantillon at Cantillons Solicitors recently successfully represented a member of An Garda Síochána in the High Court who suffered a number of physical injuries as well as psychological injury during the course of her work as a Garda when she was violently assaulted by a male she was arresting. The case […]
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16 May 2024
seven figure settlement for mother arising from late diagnosis of cancer
Marian Fogarty, Ger Falvey and the team at Cantillons were delighted to secure this substantial compensation for a client who had been through a very difficult time following a missed cancer diagnosis. Arising from the missed cancer diagnosis at a State run hospital, she was deprived of the opportunity for earlier intervention which would have […]
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16 May 2024
dental negligence case settled for substantial six figure sum
Karen Kearney, Ernest Cantillon and Karen’s team in the Medical Negligence Department of Cantillons Solicitors were delighted to settle a dental negligence case at Mediation on the 25th April 2024, for a substantial six figure sum together with High Court costs and the costs of the Mediation. The case arose out of negligent care afforded […]
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2 May 2024
significant settlement of case for man with intellectual disabilities left with catastrophic injuries as a consequence of a delay in diagnosing his cauda equina syndrome (“ces”)
Aisling Maher, assisted by Mags O’Shea, recently achieved a significant out-of-court settlement for a 73-year-old man with intellectual disabilities, Eamon O’Sullivan. In short, in the afternoon of the 30th December 2021, Eamon was referred to the A&E department of University Hospital Galway by his General Practitioner to rule out CES. He presented there at 18.04 […]
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25 April 2024
lucena clinic and health service executive admit to failing to provide care within an acceptable timeframe to 11 year old girl with acute mental health issues.
Lyndy Cantillon and Mary Barry were involved in a fatal action brought by the family of Milly Tuomey, who sadly died by suicide in January 2016 at the tender age of 11 years old. In the weeks prior to her death Milly had sought help from a number of healthcare professionals for her deteriorating mental […]
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4 April 2024
significant settlement of case for woman who lost the function of her right dominant upper limb due to a substandard delay in treating and diagnosing her metastatic disease
Aisling Maher, assisted by Mags O’Shea, recently achieved a significant out-of-court settlement for a lovely woman in respect of a substandard delay in diagnosing and treating her right axillary/brachial plexus metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer at Cork University Hospital (“CUH”), from approximately April 2018 to February 2019 (when the diagnosis was made). During the aforementioned […]
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