The family of a teenage girl who died on Dublin’s O’Connell Street when she went into anaphylactic shock after mistakenly eating a sauce containing nuts has settled a High Court action for €50,000. Emma Sloan allegedly could not get medication needed immediately to counter her reaction to the nuts because she did not have a prescription. Her mother Caroline Sloan sued pharmacist David Murphy and the Hamilton Long Allcare Pharmacy on O’Connell Street where she had gone looking for an EpiPen but was allegedly declined because she did not have a prescription. On Monday, Gordon Walsh BL with Mark Finan BL, for Ms Sloan, said the €50,000 settlement was without an admission of liability. Caroline Sloan of Kilworth Road, Drimnagh, Dublin, had sued the pharmacy and pharmacist over the events of December 18, 2013.

Source: Irish Independent May 17, 2021 17:06 UTC