A man whose wife died more than two months after undergoing brain surgery has partially settled his High Court action arising from her death.
Dermot Finn’s wife Noreen (58) died at Cork University Hospital in April 1997. Arising from her death, he sued the Southern Health Board; two neurosurgeons – Timothy Buckley and Charles Marks – of Cork University Hospital; and a Killarney GP, Dr Miriam McCarthy.
When the case came before Mr Justice Éamon de Valera yesterday, Eoin McCullough SC, for the neurosurgeons and GP, said there was a partial concession of liability in relation to the medics and an open offer of €300,000, plus costs, was being made to Mr Finn.
Patrick Keane SC, for Mr Finn, a farmer, Faha, Killarney, Co Kerry, later told the judge the case against those three defendants had been settled on the basis of the open offer made, with a slight variation, and asked the court to receive and file the terms of settlement.
The action by Mr Finn against the Southern Health Board proceeds today.