The levels of medical
negligence in Britain's care homes have been dubbed "shocking"
after it was revealed that more than 650 older residents had died
of dehydration in the past five years.
medic...
A man is now reliant upon a wheelchair after falling six metres
though the roof of a farm building, a court has heard.
Richard Cooke was working to take apart the roof of a cow shed
at Manor Farm i...
A court has awarded the family of an LGV driving instructor who
died after he stood in the path of a lorry, which failed to perform
an emergency stop, damages worth £178,357.
Alan Underwood d...
Olympian Victoria Pendleton has said
that cyclists are now being deterred from using their bikes because
of poor road surfaces caused by potholes.
Pendleton, who won a cycling
gold medal in the...
A demolition firm has been fined £12,000 after a worker suffered
a career-halting injury in a fall from a garage roof.
H Cope & Sons Ltd appeared in court after the employee fell
from a h...
An NHS Trust has been ordered to pay £6.4 million to an
eight-year-old boy who suffered severe brain damage during his
delivery at a birth centre in north-west London.
The compensation was aw...
An NHS Trust, a security firm and its manager have been fined
more than £9,000 in total after
asbestos was released into a hospital.
Northamptonshire NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust, Nutec...
Bupa Care Homes (BNH) Ltd has been fined £150,000 after failing
to ensure the health and safety of residents at a nursing home
which led to the death of an elderly woman.
Brigid O'Callaghan, ...
Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has given an indication of the huge
sums of money involved in product liability cases as it revealed
that the cost of settling legal disputes over diabetes drug Avandia
wi...
Magistrates have heard how a council worker fell 6m down a dry
well while clearing litter from a yard.
The unnamed Mansfield District Council employee was collecting
litter at the White Lion Yard i...