Person: Moira Flahive

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Judge throws out €60,000 personal injury claim after finding woman gave 'misleading' evidence

A judge has thrown out an Ennis woman’s €60,000 personal injury claim for a back injury after finding that she gave “misleading” evidence in court.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2020

Dead man lay in emergency department 'for four to five hours', inquest hears

Brian Hamilton was found in a collapsed state at Tallaght Hospital A&E at 3pm on April 14 2018.

Thu, 14 Nov, 2019

Solicitors ‘may be complicit in false claims’

Solicitors who handle what eventually turn out to be set-up accidents may be contributing to fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge said in what is the strongest criticism yet by the judiciary of some members of the legal profession.

Thu, 11 Jul, 2019

'Solicitors should be a bit more selective about who they take on', says judge in throwing out five 'whiplash' claims

Solicitors who handle what eventually turn out to be set-up accidents may be contributing to fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge said today in what is the strongest criticism yet by the judiciary of some members of the legal profession.

Wed, 10 Jul, 2019

Injury fraud evidence ‘utterly compelling’

A group of Romanians, mainly based in Galway, had been linked to Irish Travellers in an utterly dishonest scam of staging car crashes to mount fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge stated yesterday.

Thu, 09 Jul, 2015