Fatal injuries settlement approved where there is ‘significant risk’ that actuarial evidence is vulnerable to challenge at trial

High Court approves proposed settlement of fatal injuries proceedings taken by the minor plaintiff in respect of her mother's death following admission to the accident and emergency departments of two Dublin hospitals, in the amount of €325,000 without any admission of liability, where, despite objections from the plaintiff's grandmother as to the adequacy of the proposed offer, the court is satisfied that: certain of the underlying assumptions of the plaintiff's actuarial report before the court are vulnerable to challenge were the matter to proceed to trial in view of the deceased's long history of ill-health; and the fact that the figure claimed for care and domestic assistance to be provided to the minor plaintiff may be the subject of a multiplier which could revise down significantly any such amount achieved following a trial of the action.