£200,000 award in hepatitis case

A civil servant whose career may be disrupted because of, contracting Hepatitis C has been awarded £200,000 by the compensation…

A civil servant whose career may be disrupted because of, contracting Hepatitis C has been awarded £200,000 by the compensation tribunal. Mr Raymond Bradley, solicitor, said his client was a haemophiliac and lived in Dublin.

"He is in his 30s and was infected by contaminated blood factor product administered to haemophiliacs in the mid 70s," he said.

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