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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

Balancing act: data protection and health requirements

  • A&L Goodbody
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • February 19 2013

Every child born in the State is eligible to participate in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme (updated in 2011), more commonly known

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

Professional regulation bias

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • April 27 2012

In December 2011, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an appeal by a domiciliary midwife from a High Court decision refusing to restrain the continuation of a professional misconduct hearing on the ground of objective bias

Mental health, taking of blood samples without patient consent

  • Matheson
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  • 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

Court puts baby's life before parents' beliefs

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

In September 2011, the Coombe Women & Infants Hospital successfully applied to the High Court for a pre-emptive order, allowing them to carry out an emergency blood transfusion on a premature baby girl

Cost cutting in medical negligence claims

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • September 29 2011

Fine Gael have proposed a Medical Injuries Board (“MIB”), modelled on the Injuries Board, to reduce the costs associated with long-running medical negligence cases and also to reduce the value of the awards involved in such cases

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

Cautious reminder claims arising from medical treatment should not be submitted to the Injuries Board

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

In June 2011, Mr Justice Hedigan handed down judgment in an interesting case, Carroll v The Mater Hospital, where the question of the Injuries Board (previously PIAB) and its application to claims arising in a medical treatment context was considered

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

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • 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

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