The family of an award-winning fashion designer who died from ovarian cancer have secured €215,000 in settlement of their High Court action alleging untimely death due to alleged delays in detecting the cancer when she was pregnant.
Miriam Mone (42) won the Late Late Show’s coat designer of the year award in 1993 and designer of the year in 1995. She also designed President Mary McAleese’s first inauguration outfit in 1997.
She died as a result of ovarian cancer on February 22nd, 2007, just over a year after giving birth to her second daughter in the Coombe maternity hospital in Dublin.
The case came before Ms Justice Mary Irvine yesterday.
In proceedings brought against the HSE as executor of her estate, her husband, William Healy, Rockingham Grove, Leixlip, Kildare, alleged the hospital failed to carry out any, or any adequate, investigative procedures after an ovarian cyst was discovered when she attended the hospital in June 2005, 11 weeks into her second pregnancy.