He said that the €4.76 million in legal costs include fees paid to mediation services, which he said is consistent with the SCA’s policy of using mediation wherever possible to resolve these claims in a non-adversarial manner.late Vicky Phelan
The figures also show that legal firms representing the SCA in clinical care claims also receive substantial sums – Hayes Solicitors received €4.63 million concerning 248 claims in 2021; Mason Hayes and Curran Solicitors received €3.84 million concerning 148 claims; Ronan Daly Jermyn Solicitors received €3.13 million for 106 cases and Comyn Kelleher Tobin received €2.7 million for 97 cases.
He said: “The more complex a case, the more time is involved and that leads to higher legal costs. You do not get paid as a percentage of the damages and we do not charge our clients a fee. He said: “While they say that they seek to mediate cases to spare the injured party from an adversarial litigation process, our experience is that they only seek mediation on the eve of trial. This does little to ease the stress on plaintiffs.”
Cue the anonymous accounts telling us cervical check wasn't to blame,no decision was wrong,all mis read/incorrect results were well within the norms & retrospectve audits are biased & should be used only as an introspective information gathering purpose, never to be dosclosed.
Cian O’Carroll: “30 women died from these shameful and avoidable errors”. “The human cost of these failings cannot yet be counted as cancers continue to be diagnosed that should have been detected by labs.” CervicalCheck HSELive
The Irish government (recently reshuffled again) needs to get out of the medical care business and stick to what they know.