A seven-year-old girl whose case over a shoulder injury allegedly suffered at birth was sent back for a re-trial has secured a €70,000 settlement of her High Court action. In 2016, after another High Court judge dismissed the case, that decision was successfully appealed to the Court of Appeal. The day after her birth, the child was diagnosed with Erb’s Palsy, a left shoulder injury. The HSE denied negligence and denied that traction imposed on Sophie’s head had caused any injury to her arm and shoulder. The “more likely” cause was injury to Sophie’s left arm and shoulder when it was “posterior in the womb”, he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 23, 2018 14:48 UTC