by Russell Worth | Jul 19, 2013 | asbestosis compensation, Industrial Disease, News
A cladding installation business owner has been fined after he exposed his workers to airborne asbestos fibres. Michael Southern instructed one employee and one casual labourer to remove and replace soffit boards at a house in Bedfordshire in August 2011. However,...
by Russell Worth | Jul 16, 2013 | Medical Negligence, News
The outcome of a review looking into the high mortality rates of fourteen hospital trusts has been announced, with the Government declaring that eleven hospitals are to be placed in special measures after major failings were discovered. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt...
by Russell Worth | Jul 11, 2013 | Accident at Work, News
Perrie Edwards from girl band Little Mix has revealed she has no sense of smell. It is thought the singer was born with a rare condition known as congenital anosmia; a condition which has no cure. “I have never smelt anything,” Perrie said to the BBC,...
by Russell Worth | Jul 11, 2013 | Car Accidents, News, Personal Injury
A pensioner whose hip was shattered during a stop on a coach trip to Blackpool has won £150,000 in compensation. The accident happened in 2010, when the woman, who is in her 70s, was going through a revolving door at a shopping centre where the coach party had made a...
by Russell Worth | Jul 9, 2013 | asbestosis compensation, Industrial Disease, News
In a stark illustration of the difficulties faced in establishing liability in asbestos cases so many years after an alleged causative event, a middle-aged woman who was said to have contracted mesothelioma due to exposure to asbestos in a primary school playground...
by Russell Worth | Jul 9, 2013 | Industrial Disease, Miners Compensation, News
An elderly man who used to work as a coalminer has died from an industrial disease, it has been reported. An inquest last month heard how Geoffrey Bleazard, aged 88 and from Horringer, Suffolk, had worked in the coalmines for 30 years, beginning when he was aged 14....
