A British mother and her daughter have been injured in an explosion described as a holiday accident, while staying at a well known package holiday hotel in Tenerife. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted a Pontefract firm after a teenage worker employed as a temp at the site sustained serious injuries to his arm when he was dragged into machinery. Read more...
An investigation has been officially launched into the collapse of the Apollo Theatre’s roof during a packed West End show on Thursday evening (19/12/13). Read more...
A West End theatre audience was forced to evacuate the Apollo Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue last night, after a section of the roof high above the stalls collapsed into the auditorium. Read more...
A 16-year-old British holidaymaker who was one of triplets has died after his family skied off-piste in Austria and ran into an avalanche. Read more...
The sisters of a man who suffered brain injury in a bus accident have hit out a court decision to make his wife the sole trustee of the trust set up with his compensation. Read more...
Passengers on a fairground ride narrowly avoided serious injury after the back of their seat fell off while they were swinging round 200ft in the air. Read more...
A police support officer has been awarded £4,000 in compensation after falling over a 3ft-high wooden fence while on duty. Read more...
The arrest of four curry house workers from Bangladesh last Saturday (07/12/13) has highlighted recent calls from UK business for more migrant workers to take up jobs British workers do not want. Read more...
Police in Kent have launched their winter campaign to help road users stay safe on Kent’s roads. Read more...
An 11-year-old boy from Ashford in Kent who was hit in the eye by a dart on holiday in Tunisia could receive up to £50,000 in holiday accident compensation. Read more...
An 11-year-old boy has received a five-figure compensation sum after suffering a personal injury eight years ago while on holiday in Tunisia following an incident involving a dart. Read more...
A company in Cornwall has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker sustained serious injuries in a tractor accident at work. Read more...
A French court has handed down a four-year jail sentence to the founder of breast implant company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) which used industrial silicon to make breast implants. Read more...
The operating company of a leisure centre in Essex has been successfully prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a young child suffered serious burns in the changing room. Read more...
A mother-of- two has died on holiday at a fitness camp in Africa, after collapsing following a “sandboarding” activity. Read more...
Kenneth Brown, a 64 year old banksman (reversing assistant), was knocked down by a cherry picker while working at the Sellafield nuclear plant as a contractor for Johnson Controls. Read more...
A woman whose husband died from a heart attack after being told by doctors he was suffering from a musculoskeletal condition and indigestion has been awarded £100,000 in compensation. Read more...
A 33-year-old freelance film maker who was injured while trying to escape terrorists in the Mumbai attacks of 2008 has launched a bid to have his claim for compensation heard in a UK court. Read more...
A patient who underwent a hysterectomy at the Royal Derby Hospital in November has received an apology form the local hospital trust, after a surgeon left a surgical glove inside her during the operation. Read more...
Many holidaymakers are aware that if they are injured in a travel accident and booked a package holiday in the UK, they can make a claim for compensation under the Package Travel Regulations 1992, if the accident was caused by another party’s negligence. Read more...
Research for AXA Insurance by Populus has found that 80% of those questioned for a study wanted cold calling by companies representing claims management companies (CMCs) to be made illegal. Read more...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has agreed to pay three female RAF recruits £100,000 each in compensation, after marching in line with male recruits caused spinal and pelvic injuries to the women. Read more...
A woman who grossly exaggerated her injuries from a fall in order to claim £750,000 compensation is now facing a three-month prison sentence. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted a Bolton firm, after a recycling plant worker was badly injured when a steel beam fell on him from a forklift truck. Read more...
A total of 503 NHS patients who underwent “cleavage sparing” surgery have lodged personal injury claims for breast cancer operations carried out by reconstructive surgeon Ian Paterson. Read more...
Changes in NHS guidance due to be announced by Conservative Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt this week are expected to make wilful neglect of patients by medical staff a criminal offence. Read more...
An investigation into drug driving by ITV reporters for the Tonight programme shown on Thursday (14/11/13) has found that smoking cannabis before driving can affect spatial awareness and even make drivers react more aggressively behind the wheel. Read more...
Another cyclist has been killed on roads in central London, bringing the total number of deaths among London cyclists in the last two weeks to five. The cyclist was killed on Wednesday (13/11/13) evening by Aldgate in east London. All the recent fatalities involved heavy good vehicles. The latest death involved a cyclist and a bus. Read more...
An elderly grandmother has apologised to a court after she veered into a car while driving and caused serious injuries to three people travelling in the oncoming vehicle, including two children. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted a company which makes stage scenery for London theatres and sets for fashion shows, after a carpenter suffered skull and leg injuries when scenery fell from a fork-lift truck and pinned him to the ground. Read more...
A US lawsuit against a doctor who performed a hysterectomy using a Da Vinci robotic surgeon has been filed after the female patient died. Read more...
A survey by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has revealed that more than almost half of new mothers questioned say they are not given enough advice about how to recognise life threatening illnesses in their baby after they return home from hospital. Read more...
A young girl from Mountsorrel in Leicestershire has died after being bitten by a dog. Lexi Hudson, aged four, was taken from her home to hospital by ambulance but died at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. Read more...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has found a reduction in the number of workers suffering fatal and serious injuries at work, including burns, fractures and amputations. Read more...