Counsel for Ms Morrissey, Jeremy Maher SC said his side had been informed yesterday morning by letter from solicitors representing Quest of the withdrawal and were reserving their position on that.
Ms Morrissey and her husband Paul Morrissey, of Kylemore, Schoolhouse Road, Monaleen, Co Limerick have sued the HSE; Quest Diagnostics Ireland Ltd, with offices at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin; and Medlab Pathology Ltd with offices at Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18. It is claimed there was failure to correctly report and diagnose and misinterpretation of her smear samples taken in 2009 and 2012. A situation, it is claimed, developed where Ms Morrissey’s cancer spread unidentified, unmonitored and untreated until she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in June 2014.
It is further claimed a review of the 2009 and 2012 smears took place in 2014 and 2015 with the results sent to Ms Morrissey’s treating gynaecologist in 2016, but Ms Morrissey was not told until May 2018 of those review results which showed her smears were reported incorrectly. The HSE the court has admitted it owed a duty of care to Ms Morrissey but not to her husband. The laboratories deny all claims. The case before Mr Justice Kevin Cross continues.