'I saw the chaos' - Man settles action over death of wife at Cork maternity hospital

Doctors delivered Mrs Casey's baby boy by caesarean section on an X-ray table after she suffered a cardiac arrest

Dominic Casey (pictured leaving the High Court today) told the High Court he was outside the X-ray department as his wife, who had been admitted to the hospital days earlier with breathlessness, went into cardiac arrest. Photo: Collins Courts

A man who sued over the death of his 38-year-old wife at Cork University Maternity Hospital days after her first baby was delivered when she went into cardiac arrest as she had a lung scan has settled his High Court action for €1.25 million.

Anne Casey died at the Cork hospital 11 days after she first had a cardiac arrest as she was having a lung scan and her baby was delivered by emergency caesarean section on the X-ray table.