High court awards €500,000 to waitress who injured her hand after a glass jug shattered

A hotel waitress who injured her hand after a glass jug she was filling shattered has been awarded €500,000 by the High Court. Mr Justice Kevin Cross found Sophie Caillaud had suffered a very significant injury which had altered her life writes Ann O’Loughlin.

The French woman, who was working as a waitress in the luxury Lough Rynn Hotel in Co Leitrim in December, 2007, sustained a deep laceration to her right thumb which bled profusely and she later had to have an operation and wear a splint.