Damien Tansey Solicitors LLP secures Medical Misadventure verdict in Coroner’s Inquest into death of Lisa Niland

A Coroner has returned a verdict of medical misadventure following an inquest into the death of a student who was admitted to Sligo University Hospital (SUH) after collapsing and vomiting with a sudden severe headache. Damien Tansey Solicitors LLP has represented the family of the late Lisa Niland during this long running inquest. A core issue at the inquest concerned a significant delay at SUH in carrying out an emergency CT scan which ultimately disclosed a bleed on Lisa’s brain which led to her death.

 

Click on the link below for an Irish Times Article discussing this case.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2022/09/13/coroner-returns-verdict-of-medical-misadventure-at-inquest-into-death-of-student/#:~:text=Ms%20Niland%20from%20Drimbane%2C%20Curry,1.30pm%20that%20same%20day