€1.5 Million Settlement in Gastric Cancer Medical Negligence Case
Case Study: June 2026 Alaina Hogan of Cian O’Carroll Solicitors recently secured a €1.5 million settlement in a complex medical negligence case involving the delayed diagnosis and treatment of a condition that ultimately contributed to the development of incurable gastric cancer. Our client was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic gastric cancer, a devastating diagnosis which […]
Failure to Act on Warning Signs Leads to Advanced Cancer
Case Study: April 2022 In December 2021, High Court proceedings were issued on behalf of our client a 42 year old financial analyst and his partner against the Health Service Executive (HSE) and two GPs. Our client first presented to St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, in February 2021 with black stools, abdominal pain and collapse episodes. […]
Urgent Settlement Following Delayed Cancer Diagnosis
Case Study: February 2022 At Cian O’Carroll Solicitors, our team acted in a High Court medical negligence case involving a man in his late seventies, a farmer, who was diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer following missed opportunities for earlier detection during screening and hospital investigations. Due to his extremely limited life expectancy, the case was […]
Delayed Diagnosis of Signet Cell Gastric Cancer
Case Study: February 2016 Cian O’Carroll Solicitors client, a woman in her early 60’s attended her local HSE hospital with ongoing stomach pain. An endoscopy and biopsy were performed, and the laboratory confirmed stomach cancer. However, the result was not flagged, and the consultant failed to read the report fully. No action was taken for […]