A Peterborough man who was seriously injured in a workplace accident is reportedly set to recive more than £1 million in compensation from his employers. 34-year-old Christopher Holmes was working for A S Joinery, which was sub-contracting to R G Carter, at a college in the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots when the incident occurred. …
A Spanish radio station has reportedly agreed to pay a sizeable settlement to FC Barcelona after it was sued for defamation by the club. The station, Cadena COPE, alleged in March 2011 that the Barcelona team had been involved in a doping scandal. It recently admitted that the allegations were not true, were based on …
The supermarket giant Tesco has reportedly paid out an undisclosed four figure sum in compensation to a pensioner after he slipped and fell on the wet floor of one of its stores. Ronald Fryer, 80, was injured after slipping on the wet floor of a Tesco store in Worcester back in October 2009. The pensioner …
According to the US newspaper The Oregonian, the video game development company THQ is being sued by sports giant Adidas for a reported $10 million over an alleged breach of contract. It is claimed that Adidas filed the lawsuit after THQ failed to bring a new keep-fit game bearing the sports brand’s name to the …
Terry Hughes of LBS in East Sussex contacted Aviva with this short but sweet claim story: “A few years ago I got a call from a customer enquiring whether he could claim for damage to his false teeth. On asking him for the circumstances, he told me he was mowing his lawn, sneezed and his …
The video service Netflix has revealed that last year, it paid out a total of £5.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit from former customers who accused it of breaching their privacy. The complaint was brought by two residents of Virginia in the US, who alleged that Netflix had kept records of what they and …
The micro-blogging site Twitter is reportedly being sued by an Australian man who claims another user defamed him in a tweet. Joshua Meggitt was reportedly accused in a tweet by writer and TV personality Marieke Hardy of authoring a long-running blog which had published “ranting, hateful” articles about her. Her tweet in November 2011 read …
Three of the largest banks in the US are reportedly being sued by the state prosecutor for New York, Eric Schneiderman, over claims that they misused a national private electronic mortgage registry and facilitated the illegal seizure of homes. Mr Schneiderman is accusing Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase of pursuing improper foreclosures …
A company from Hertfordshire has been fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker fell at one of its factories. It may now need to rely on its employers’ liability insurance if the injured employee decides to pursue compensation. Benchmark Fabrication Ltd was investigated by the HSE and order to pay fines …