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11/09/2013
£5m Payout After Girl Suffers Brain Damage At Birth
A girl from County Antrim is to receive £5m in damages after she suffered brain damage at birth.
The settlement was agreed during the summer months but has only just been announced.
The parents of the 10-year-old-girl successfully sued Belfast Health and Social Care Trust after she was starved of oxygen at birth in the Royal Victoria Hospital in 2002.
The Trust accepted liability as the case was about to go to trial at the High Court.
In addition to a seven-figure lump sum, payable immediately to the child and her parents, a six-figure annual Periodic Payment Order is now in place which will enable the family to buy a new home and equip it with state of the art technology to provide as full a lifestyle as possible for the minor, and maintain this going forward, according to O'Reilly Stewart's Solicitors.
(CD/JP)
The settlement was agreed during the summer months but has only just been announced.
The parents of the 10-year-old-girl successfully sued Belfast Health and Social Care Trust after she was starved of oxygen at birth in the Royal Victoria Hospital in 2002.
The Trust accepted liability as the case was about to go to trial at the High Court.
In addition to a seven-figure lump sum, payable immediately to the child and her parents, a six-figure annual Periodic Payment Order is now in place which will enable the family to buy a new home and equip it with state of the art technology to provide as full a lifestyle as possible for the minor, and maintain this going forward, according to O'Reilly Stewart's Solicitors.
(CD/JP)
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