News-Cerebral Palsy Case

E4.75m for cerebral palsy boy

A FINAL settlement of E4.75m has been approved for a schoolboy left with cerebral palsy following his birth in a Cork hospital.

The latest lump-sum settlement was approved yesterday in the High Court by Ms Justice Mary Irvine for Shane Kenny, who is now nine years old.

It came two-years after a E1m partial payment in settlement of his claim against the HSE over the circumstances of his birth in Erinville Hospital on November 2, 2004.

He was awarded a further E665,000 last year for his future loss of earnings.

The E4.75m final settlement brought the total amount in relation to Shane’s case to E6.4m.

Shane, from Ballylouane, Ballyduff, Co Waterford, has developmental delay?and motor dysfunction.