by Russell Worth | May 20, 2013 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
A woman whose holiday was ruined by a salmonella infection has won £22,000 in damages.Stacey Sewell, 32, was on an all inclusive package holiday with her family at a four star hotel in Gran Canaria when she contracted the bug. The symptoms can be severe and include...
by Russell Worth | May 20, 2013 | Accident Claims, News
The Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) is delighted to be the first Deaf organisation in the UK to launch a call-centre style webcam portal to allow Deaf people to contact its Deaf Law Centre in BSL online. The webcam portal enhances the previous system of...
by Russell Worth | May 20, 2013 | Accident Claims, News
A man from Hampshire died as a result of asbestos exposure, an inquest heard yesterday.Raymond Lucas, from Totton, Hampshire, died in March of this year after developing malignant mesothelioma. He was 89.The inquest heard how medical tests found no evidence of...
by Russell Worth | May 19, 2013 | Accident Claims, Construction Site Accident
A construction company in Essex has been fined for putting their employees at risk by neglecting and not sufficiently maintaining some potentially dangerous lifting equipment. Aveley Construction Ltd were fined last month after Basildon Magistrates’ Court heard how a...
by Russell Worth | May 16, 2013 | Hospital Infections, Medical Negligence, News
The NHS has come under fire again after a YouGov poll reported that nearly half of Britons say they or their families have experienced poor hospital care or neglect. The poll, carried out in February, concluded that patients regularly struggle to get the treatment...