by Russell Worth | Mar 12, 2015 | Claims, News, Sunbed Negligence
An unlicensed and experimental new drug has been fast-tracked to skin cancer patients under a new government scheme, in an effort to get pioneering drugs to seriously ill patients much quicker. Pembrolizumab, a treatment for advanced skin cancer, is the first medicine...
by Russell Worth | Mar 10, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A construction company in Derbyshire has appeared in court after a scaffolder was severely injured when he fell through a fragile surface whilst working on a London supermarket. 31-year-old James Whelan from Wimbledon fell seven metres in the incident, fracturing...
by Russell Worth | Mar 10, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
Russell Worth is backing calls for a Government review into the presence of asbestos in UK schools after the BBC reported on figures suggesting that the material is present in almost nine in ten schools in the UK. The new figures, much higher than official estimates...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A cleaning company in Surrey has been prosecuted for safety failings after one of its employees suffered life-changing injuries when he fell six metres through a fragile roof light. The 36-year-old worker, who has asked not to be named, was one of a team sent by...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Claims, News, Personal Injury
A lift company has been told that it must pay £100,000 in fines and costs after petrified tourists suffered broken legs and ankles when a vital mechanism failed on a Tower Bridge lift, causing it to fall into a service pit. The incident at the popular London landmark...
by Russell Worth | Mar 9, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A building firm director was partially buried, a court has heard, when the high sides of an excavation collapsed on him. Paul Connolly, director of PNT Contractors Ltd, based in Bushey needed to be rescued by workers following the excavation collapse at an Essex site...
