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A corporate relations manager who claimed he injured his neck when trying to pick up a box of informational brochures at an event in Budapest to promote UCD settled his lawsuit in High Court.
Jacqueline Ashmore had told the court that she felt “overwhelming and extreme pain” in her neck when she lifted the box eight inches off the ground at the UCD booth at the Hungarian university four years ago.
“Something terrible had happened, there was terrible pain. I knew it was the box. It was as if someone had stabbed me in the neck. I thought I was going to throw up, ”he said.
The 57-year-old woman who had worked for UCD for 24 years and whose case included a claim for lost earnings and pension totaling more than € 700,000 had to appear in the witness box at times while giving her testimony in court .
He claimed that he was left with a complex pain syndrome, pain in his neck and on one side of his body, and a condition that means his neck is tilted to the right.
In court this afternoon, Ms. Ashmore’s attorney, Diarmuid P O’Donovan SC, told Judge Deirdre Murphy that the case had been resolved and could be dismissed.
Previously, under questioning by UCD attorney Sara Moorhead SC, Ms. Ashmore was asked about complaints of pain prior to the Budapest accident for which investigations had been conducted at Beaumont Hospital.
Ashmore said she had gone to the hospital with symptoms, but was not diagnosed with any illness.
When asked how he reconciled by giving instructions that he had no health problems before the accident, Ashmore said that did not stop him from going to work. “I had investigations but that did not stop my life,” she said.
She added: “There is no doubt in my mind when I picked up that box, I felt that pain,” she told the court.
Jacqueline Ashmore, 57, of Santry, Dublin, had sued her employer UCD as a result of the accident on November 16, 2012, when she was working as a corporate relations manager and attending Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary on behalf of UCD.
She claimed that she was provided with a box full of material that was too heavy for her and allegedly caused her injuries. In addition, it had claimed that there was an alleged lack of adequate or complete notification of the weight of the box and an alleged lack of adequate training in manual handling of loads.
UCD denied the claims and asserted that there was alleged contributory negligence on the part of Ms. Ashmore and allegedly did not take into account any dangers posed by the weight or size of the box.
Furthermore, he had claimed that there was an alleged failure to simply remove the brochures from the box without having to lift the box.
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