Family of woman hurt in bed fall sues for €48k

A nursing home was sued for €48,000 yesterday by the family of an elderly woman who was injured when she fell out of bed during the night.

Mary O’Mahony, aged 89, late of Model Village, Tower, Blarney, Co Cork, suffered facial cuts and fractured ribs when she fell out of bed at the Madonna House retirement home on Station Rd, Ballincollig, on February 8, 2011. She was taken to Cork University Hospital but died there on March 22, 2011.

John O’Mahony SC, for Bridget Siebold, daughter of the deceased, who brought the action to the High Court, said the settlement offer by the defendants represented the full value of the case and he had no hesitation in recommending the settlement to the court.