Terminally ill Morrissey was awarded €2.1m over the testing of her cervical smear slides
In the High Court on Friday, Counsel for Quest Diagnostics asked for a stay in the final orders in the case providing €400,000 is paid to Ruth Morrissey.
In his judgment Mr Justice Cross said the €10,000 against the HSE was nominal damages and while the HSE had admitted liability in relation to the non disclosure of the audit results, the wrong done to Ms Morrissey by the non-disclosure he said was not inconsiderable. “I believe the American screeners were utilising their professional skill and judgment and recording what they believed as a matter of proability was the case but that they ought not to have treated the slide as negative given the abnormalities as identified by Dr McKenna,” the judge said.
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