Terminally ill Ruth Morrissey awarded €2.1m damages in smear test case

Terminally ill Ruth Morrissey and her husband Paul who sued over her CervicalCheck smear tests were today awarded a total of €2.1million by the High Court as she won her landmark action.

She won her case against the HSE and two US laboratories in relation to the misreading of her cervical smear slides in 2009 and 2012 in the landmark action relating to the CervicalCheck controversy. The judge also ruled the HSE was not negligent over not giving repeat imaging and surveillance to the 37-year-old woman.Ms Morrissey had walked into the Four Courts with the aid of a crutch.

Legal teams representing other women who are taking similar type actions relating to smear tests taken under the CervicalCheck screening programme have been monitoring the case which started in July last year with three days at hearing and resumed in January for a further 34 days of evidence.

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