Archive for August, 2010
Staff knowingly exposed to asbestos
by James Ratcliff in August 26th, 2010
Topics: News, Personal Injury
Workers were allowed to spend five days stripping out a shop despite their bosses knowing that its ceiling contained asbestos.
Cancer fears at factory ‘unfounded’
by James Ratcliff in August 26th, 2010
Topics: News, Personal Injury
Research suggests that cancer fears linked to a manufacturing plant in Greenock, Inverclyde, are “unfounded”.
Firms fined over worker’s 21m fall
by James Ratcliff in August 26th, 2010
Topics: News, Personal Injury
Two UK construction firms have been fined a total of £125,000 after a worker suffered multiple injuries after plunging 21 metres from a hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Asbestos fine for building company
by James Ratcliff in August 26th, 2010
Topics: News, Personal Injury
A building contractor who put the health of primary schoolchildren at risk by ordering workers to strip an asbestos-filled room has been fined £1,000.
Proceedings open over E.coli farm
by James Ratcliff in August 19th, 2010
Topics: News, Personal Injury
Lawyers representing the parents of twins who suffered kidney failure after an E.coli outbreak have served proceedings against the farm in question.








