An eight-year-old boy, who sustained a laceration on his forehead which resulted in a permanent scar, has had a settlement of compensation for a personal injury at a museum approved in the Circuit Civil Court.
Bradley Kavanagh from Dublin had been visiting the National Museum of Ireland in Benburb Street, Dublin, with his grandfather in 2011 when he tripped on a ‘defective floor surface’ and sustained a laceration on his forehead just above his left eyebrow.
Bradley – who was just six-years-old at the time – was taken to the Temple Street Children´s Hospital in Dublin by ambulance and received five stitches into the wound while he was under a general anaesthetic.
Through his parents, Bradley made a claim for a personal injury at a museum against the National Museum of Ireland and, as Mr Justice Raymond Groarke heard at the Circuit Civil Court, an offer of compensation amounting to €18,133 had been made by the museum which the family were prepared to accept.
After witnessing the permanent scar above Bradley´s left eye, the judge approved the settlement.