Irish boy hurt in Swiss road accident got up to 10 times more compensation by suing here, court told

Tracy Ennis Faherty, who negotiated a €27,218 settlement for 11-year-old Frank Reaney, told the Circuit Civil Court she had been advised by a Swiss expert that the extent of the boy’s injuries might attract only a few thousand francs there.

The barrister said her team decided to switch Frank’s personal injuries claim to the €60,000 jurisdiction of the Circuit Civil Court.

She told Judge Fiona O’Sullivan the legal roll-over had been carried out under the Fourth Motor Insurance Directive Regulations of 2003, which allows residents of EU states, injured while abroad, to bring legal proceedings in their own country.

Martin Reaney, of Snipe Lawn, Newcastle, Co Galway, who initiated the claim on behalf of his son, told the court in an affidavit that Frank, when he was five, had been injured in a road traffic accident on the Route de Grand-St Bernard, Switzerland, in July 2018.

Ms Ennis Faherty said the boy had been kept in a Swiss hospital for five days while undergoing…

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