€2million payout for toilet fall claim

High Court action gets settled after woman allegedly suffered injuries

- DANNY DE VAAL

A WOMAN who, it was claimed, fell in a toilet cubicle at Beaumont Hospital a day and a half after brain surgery has settled a High Court action for €2million.

Jacinta Flood, the court heard, was recovering from surgery for a benign brain tumour at the Dublin hospital six years ago, when it is claimed she allegedly suffered injuries in the unwitnessed fall.

Her counsel, John Healy SC, with Doireann O'Mahony BL, instructed by Callan Tansey solicitors, told the court that while there was nursing supervision of Ms Flood after the surgery, it was their case that at the time of the fall, two nurses were allegedly outside the toilet cubicle.