by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Claims, News
An energy company has been fined a record-breaking £500,000 after a woman died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Pensioner Joyce Moore, from Middleton, passed away in October 2012 after the flue of her gas boiler was blocked by HIS Energy Ltd, who were offering free...
by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Industrial Disease, News
Scientists have reported a major breakthrough which could significantly help in the development of drugs and other allergies. The study, led by scientists at Imperial College London for the last ten years, adopted new ways to analyse genes in the immune system and in...
by Russell Worth | Mar 2, 2015 | Industrial Disease, News
A 75-year-old man from Hailsham died from an asbestos-related illness, an inquest has heard. On 10th January, James Spencer was taken in to a hospice, but he died a week later as a result of his illness. Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court heard that Mr Spencer worked as a...
by Russell Worth | Feb 27, 2015 | Accident at Work, News
A firm in Aberdeenshire has been prosecuted for serious safety failings following the death of a man who feel over five metres through a fragile roof. 57-year-old Nikolajs Naumovs, a Latvian national who had only arrived in Scotland two weeks prior to the incident in...
by Russell Worth | Feb 26, 2015 | News, Personal Injury
A company in Derbyshire has appeared in court after an incident which saw a two-storey portable building collapsing whilst 30 children and parents were gathered in the lower room. The incident occurred at Derbyshire’s Ashbourne Elim Pentecostal Church when two...
