The High Court has approved a €3.8m interim settlement for a 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and cognitive impairment arising from his September 2012 birth at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street.
The plaintiff's legal team alleged that there had been a failure to properly monitor labour and a failure to recognise fetal distress, and that the baby should have been delivered earlier by Caesarean section. The hospital denied all of the claims and maintained that labour management had been appropriate.
The interim settlement was reached through mediation and was approved without any admission of liability. It covers the next six years of the boy's care, with the case scheduled to return to court at that point so the position can be reassessed.
Mr Justice Paul Coffey approved the agreement as fair and reasonable.
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