Polski Dzial Compensation Awarded for Loss of Limbs
An aircraft engineer has been awarded around £600,000 in compensation after he was severely injured by an exploding tyre, reports the BBC. The 39-year-old, who was employed by Lufthansa, was servicing a tyre on a plane at Manchester Airport when a faulty nitrogen rig caused the tyre to over inflate and explode. The force of […]
Study of Medical Negligence Claiming in Scotland
The Scottish Government has recently published its study into the current system for medical negligence claiming in Scotland. The study was commissioned to inform the work of the No-fault Compensation Review Group which was established in 2009 to consider the potential benefits to patients of the introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme for medical negligence […]
Government must act over new workplace cancer study
The TUC has called for urgent action from the government to deal with the huge death toll from work-related cancer as research is published in the British Journal of Cancer Supplement into the incidence of cancers caused by work. The study was was funded by the Health and Safety Executive, and found that every year […]
Woman awarded damages for childhood injuries
A woman from Norfolk has been awarded over £9 million in compensation for injuries she received as a child, reports the BBC. The woman, who is now aged 23, was hit by a car at the age of seven. She almost died as a result of the accident, and suffered severe brain damage that altered […]
Damages awarded for golfing eye injury
A golfer has been awarded just under £400,000 in damages after he lost an eye in an accident on a golf course in West Lothian, reports the BBC. The 44-year-old had been walking from one hole to the next when he was hit on the head by a ball struck by a golfer on the […]