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Health insurance update

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland
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  • April 22 2013

On 7 March 2013, the High Court handed down judgment in favour of the respondents in the case of BUPA Ireland Ltd & Anor v The Health Insurance

Liability at common law of a parent company to an employee of its subsidiary

  • A&L Goodbody
  • -
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 20 2011

In a recent UK High Court case a parent company was held to owe a duty of care to an employee of a subsidiary company, where the employee had been exposed to asbestos and subsequently suffered asbestosis, in circumstances where the subsidiary company was no longer in existence

New High Court Rules on Mediation and Conciliation

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • January 10 2011

New High Court Rules on Mediation and Conciliation (the "Rules"), under which a High Court judge may adjourn legal proceedings to allow the parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), may yield an increase in the number of medical negligence claims being settled through mediation, conciliation or other forms of ADR

Interim injunctions and the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • February 4 2011

The launch of a generic product onto the marketplace in competition with a patented pharmaceutical product can have devastating effects on an originator company's market position and pricing strategy

Referring employees for medical assessment

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • January 9 2013

In a recent High Court case, Delaney v Central Bank of Ireland 2011, which involved a referral by the Central Bank of a senior employee for psychiatric

Molly Sengupta v HSE (UD 19092009)

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • July 6 2011

The claimant was employed on a temporary specified-purpose contract to replace a Senior Medical Officer (SMO) who had taken a four year career break

Mental health, taking of blood samples without patient consent

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • February 1 2012

Mr Justice MacMenamin in his judgement dated 26 July 2011, held that the taking of blood samples by doctors treating a woman suffering from severe mental illness was lawful, despite her failure to give consent

An Irish court rules on the balance between right to life and freedom of religion

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • May 2 2011

A life-saving blood transfusion was administered to a three-month-old baby recently contrary to the express wishes of the child's Jehovah Witness parents

HSE- v- JOB: High Court judgment of Mr Justice Birmingham 3rd March 2011

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • September 12 2011

In this case the High Court had to consider if it had inherent jurisdiction to direct the involuntary detention of a patient in circumstances where the involuntary detention provisions in the Mental Health Act, 2001 did not apply

Provision of emergency services found not to breach EU law

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • January 30 2008

On 18 December 2007, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) (in Case C-53203), overturned the European Commission's (Commission) decision regarding the Eastern Regional Health Authority (Authority

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