The High Court has approved an award of €2.7m in settlement of a case taken on behalf a Dublin boy who was brain damaged after he was given a high dose of an experimental chemotherapy treatment.
William Malone sued through his mother Catherine in an action against Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin. The settlement was reached without an admission of liability.
The boy's parents claimed that he was given more than twice the usual amount of treatments with a highly toxic drug for leukaemia when he was six years old.
The court was told that William, who is now aged 14, has a mental age of eight and will never be able to live independently.
The hospital denied the claims.
