A manufacturer has been fined £5,000 due to an employee nearly
losing a finger after coming into contact with the rotating rear
cutters of a wood plane.
Oswestry-based Richard Burbidge Ltd wa...
Hospital officials have admitted breaching health and safety
laws after the death of a severely disabled young man.
Kyle Flack, 20, of Stanford-le-Hope in Essex, died in October
2006 after ...
A surgeon will not be struck off the medical register over a
botched kidney operation, a disciplinary panel has ruled.
No action will be taken against Riza Murat Gurun after he
removed the wrong ki...
Asbestos pleural plaque
sufferers in England and Wales will not be able
to recover compensation unless they had begun, but not
resolved, a legal claim before the House of Lords
decision in October 2...
Patients were "routinely neglected" at an NHS hospital after
management became preoccupied with cost-cutting and targets, an
independent report has concluded.
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation T...
A surgeon removed 90% of a baby girl's bladder during a botched
operation, a disciplinary hearing has heard.
The girl was seven-weeks-old when Pierina Kapur, 43, cut out the
majority of her bladder...
A woman who was left paralysed after a snowmobile accident is to
receive the majority of her compensation bid, the High Court
ruled.
Mother-of-two Emma Moore, 41, was paralysed from the chest down
...
A Northamptonshire personal trainer who was paralysed in an
accident on a snowmobile trip in Italy is set to hear the outcome
of her High Court damages case.
Emma Moore, from Denton, Northants, was...
Asbestos campaigners have welcomed the news that MSPs from four
political parties have supported proposals to speed up compensation
payments for disease victims.
Labour MSP Bill Butler put forward ...
A hospital outbreak of Clostridium difficile which led to five
deaths happened a month after the ward recorded a drop in hand
hygiene, according to a report.
Seven patients contracted the b...