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If you wish to make a compensation claim for dentist negligence, you will need the services of a medical negligence solicitor in Ireland to pursue your claim. Unlike many other forms of personal injury claim in Ireland, a claim for dentist negligence compensation is resolved by medical opinion rather than by tangible fact and therefore your dentist negligence compensation claim will be declined by the Injuries Board Ireland. A solicitor will calculate the value of your claim and present it to the negligent dentist´s insurers – following up your claim for dentist negligence compensation with court action if necessary. You should always consult a dentist negligence solicitor in Ireland as soon as possible after it has been determined that you have received a poor professional service from your dentist and sustained an injury as a result.

Sep 22 2019

Dentist Negligence Compensation Action Settled for €60k

Dentist Negligence

Roisin Mimnagh, has agreed to a €60,000 dentist negligence settlement after experiencing considerable trauma following unauthorized dental treatment being administered which left her afraid to smile.

After the treatment of 50-year-old Mrs Mimnagh, the Court was advised, to her surprise, that an incisor had been filed away and replaced with an amalgam or composite.

David McParland, representing Ms Mimnagh, told Judge Jacqueline Linnane that his client was someone who was usually pleased with how she looks. She booked a treatment with Dr Anna O’Donovan, Griffith Avenue, Dublin, to have her incisor realigned. He told the Court: “To her horror she afterwards found that her tooth had been filed away and replaced with an amalgam or composite that was smaller and shorter and different from her original tooth”.

Judge Linnane was informed by Mr McPartland that his client at first was told that she was going to have some white filling applied to her tooth. She was shocked when she later saw it had been filed away and an amalgam or composite applied to it.

Remedial work was completed during 2013 however Mr McParland said Ms Mimnagh was still wearing an appliance on her tooth. He went on to say that a dental specialist they contacted was of the opinion that Ms Mimnagh would need further realignment work.

Legal Counsel for Dr O’Donovan entered a full defence to Ms Mimnagh’s legal action. However they had admitted that written consent for the specific treatment for her tooth had not been provided. She added that the case before the court was not one of assigning liability but a matter of assessing damages.

Judge Linnane told the Court that she had examined the pleadings and had found that the latest expert report was over three years old. Due to this she said that she could not assess damages as the reports were too old. Judge Linnane suggested some talks about settling the case. Following talks, Mr McParland returned to Court shortly later to advise the Judge that the case had been settled and could be struck out with an order for Ms Mimnagh’s legal costs to be taxed in default of agreement.

 

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If you wish to make a compensation claim for dentist negligence, you will need the services of a medical negligence solicitor in Ireland to pursue your claim. Unlike many other forms of personal injury claim in Ireland, a claim for dentist negligence compensation is resolved by medical opinion rather than by tangible fact and therefore your dentist negligence compensation claim will be declined by the Injuries Board Ireland. A solicitor will calculate the value of your claim and present it to the negligent dentist´s insurers – following up your claim for dentist negligence compensation with court action if necessary. You should always consult a dentist negligence solicitor in Ireland as soon as possible after it has been determined that you have received a poor professional service from your dentist and sustained an injury as a result.

Apr 07 2019

Hospital and Negligence Compensation Award of €268m Completed by State Claims Agency from 2017-18

Birth Injury in Hospital, Delayed Treatment due to Hospital Negligence, Dentist Negligence, Hospital Medical Malpractice, Hospital Medical Negligence

The total figure of compensation paid out by the State Claims Agency (SCA) in relation to hospital and medical negligence claims totals over half a billion euro from 2017-18

New figures published by Minister for Health Simon Harris indicate that the amount of of compensation paid out by the State Claims Agency (SCA) in 2018 was €268.45m for hospital and medical negligence cases – a rise of €18.6 million – or 7.5% – on the €249.77m handed over in 2017. This brings the overall amount of compensation for hospital and medical negligence paid out in 2017-18 to €518.2m.

The figures were published by the State Claims Agency (SCA) as part of a response to an official  Dáil Question from Fianna Fáil’s Finance spokesman, Michael McGrath. The response also indicated that the largest sum paid out in 2018 for hospital or medical negligence was €15.5m to an individual suffering with cerebral palsy.

Compensation cases made in relation to birth/pregnancy negligence or cerebral palsy made up seven of the top ten hospital or medical negligence payouts during 2018. The figures show that, in the seven cerebral palsy cases, an overall sum of €60.3m compensation was paid out in order to give adequate treatment for the people involved for the remainder of their lives.

The rest of the top ten was made up of cases including a pay-out of €6.3 million for a clinical procedure at surgery and a separate payout of €5.9m under the same category.

The smallest lowest payout in the top ten was €4.37mrelating to a clinical procedure in the Gynaecology service.

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If you wish to make a compensation claim for dentist negligence, you will need the services of a medical negligence solicitor in Ireland to pursue your claim. Unlike many other forms of personal injury claim in Ireland, a claim for dentist negligence compensation is resolved by medical opinion rather than by tangible fact and therefore your dentist negligence compensation claim will be declined by the Injuries Board Ireland. A solicitor will calculate the value of your claim and present it to the negligent dentist´s insurers – following up your claim for dentist negligence compensation with court action if necessary. You should always consult a dentist negligence solicitor in Ireland as soon as possible after it has been determined that you have received a poor professional service from your dentist and sustained an injury as a result.

Oct 21 2015

Hospital Dental Care Claims Disputed by Health Minister

Dentist Negligence

The Health Minister has disputed hospital dental care claims that up to ten thousand children each year are having teeth unnecessarily extracted.

The hospital dental care claims were made at the annual seminar in Carlow for dentists working in the Health Service Executive, where delegates were told that cuts in free dental care in Ireland were to blame for an increase in chronic oral infections, which in turn resulted in ten thousand children under the age of fifteen having multiple extractions under anaesthetic in hospitals.

Speaking at the seminar, Anne Twomey – president of the Irish Dental Association (IDA) – said “ninety-five percent of these cases would have been avoidable if they had been detected and treated earlier.” She added that the cuts had resulted in less education about oral hygiene being available and the undermining of a highly effective schools screening service.

The IDA said that it warned the government five years ago about the impact of cuts to dental care in Ireland, and claim that the cost of the unnecessary extractions would ultimately be many multiples of the money that had been saved. The Association presented anecdotal evidence that children were being admitted to hospital for IV antibiotics to treat oral infections while they waited for hospital dental care.

However Health Minister Leo Varadkar has disputed the accuracy of the hospital dental care claims. The Minister told reporters that the figures he has seen indicate that 3,600 dental extractions under anaesthetic were conducted on children under the age of fifteen last year. He said “I think we need to know all the facts before jumping to conclusions”.

Mr Varadkar also disputed the accuracy of hospital dental care claims that suggested avoidable extractions were five times the rate of the UK. “The number of publicly-employed dentists has gone down from about 312 to 300 in the last couple of years”, he said, “so there hasn´t been a significant reduction in the number of publicly-employed dentists”.

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