Dunne (an infant) v The National Maternity Hospital (1990) ; The landmark case which established the legal principles for establishing Negligence on the part doctors and hospitals in the treatment and care of their patients. It was the first ever birth injury case ever successfully brought to trial. The so called “Dunne test” is still applied today in the Irish Courts on a daily basis.

In 2008 Fitzpatrick -v- The National Maternity Hospital: A case which involved in the lengthiest ever birth injury cerebral palsy action with the Trial lasting 55 days, which was ultimately successful with a multi million euro award in favour of the infant Plaintiff.

In 2012 Cian Brady –v- Rotunda Hospital: The Plaintiff sued for the negligent neonatal management of her baby who developed symptomatic hypoglycaemia. After 14 days at Trial the action settled for €5.5 million plus costs.

In 2013 Eoin Dunne -v- The Coombe Hospital A 10 year old boy with severe dyskinetic cerebral palsy who was deprived of oxygen following birth as a consequence of a negligent delay in the arrival of the paediatric staff to perform resuscitation. Liability was strongly disputed. Ultimately, Judgment was given in favour of the Plaintiff. Subsequently, interim damages were agreed to compensate the Plaintiff for a two year period followed ultimately by a final lump sum award of damages in excess of 15 million euro.

In the years 2014 to 2018 Michael has been involved in approximately 30 other catastrophic injury cases which have settled with multi-million Euro interim awards of damages made and many of these cases adjourned in anticipation of the enactment of Government legislation to permit Periodic Payment Orders.

In 2019 dealt with the first ever award of damages by way of periodic payment order (PPO) under the new regime for awarding damages by way of annual index linked payments for catastrophically injured plaintiff.

Also in this year, in Gillick (an infant) -v- Temple Street Hospital acted for the Plaintiff and achieved the highest ever award of lump sum damages (€32.4 million) for a catastrophically injured child injured as a result of failure to treat a shunt infection/hydrocephalus.

In November 2019, after a six week Trial, in Bennett v Dept of Health and others he successfully settled a complex vaccine damage lead case claiming compensation for damage caused to the Plaintiff by the administration of Pandemrix Swine Flu vaccine and continues to work on scores of related similar cases.

Dealt with several other complex high value cases and awards covering a variety of other types of medical accident such as ophthalmic injuries, birth injury cases, delay in diagnosis of cancer.