A personal injury compensation claim has been won by a worker who was visiting a waste transfer plant in Exeter when he suffered significant injury to his leg. A telehandler vehicle backed into Mr Andrew Grist causing him to sustain several broken bones, a detached muscle (more…)

It has been reported in the Independent that compensation payments made to prisoners in England and Wales has almost doubled in the last year to beyond £3 million. The figures, released by the Ministry of Justice, show an alarming trend in rising claims and financial settlements between inmates and the prison services.

A total of £3.2 million was paid out between (more…)

According to reports by the BBC and the UK mining industry’s weekly ‘Mining Journal’, a number of ex-mineworkers who sustained industrial injuries at work are seeking further compensation for their injuries.

The coal-miners first received (more…)

A Hibernian football fan dressed as a sheep received a £25,000 personal injury compensation after being set alight by an Aberdeen fan, on a train journey between Edinburgh and Aberdeen in October 2009.

The football rivals were sharing a carriage amongst Halloween (more…)

42 passengers, hurt when the luxury cruise ship they were travelling on was caught in a storm, are calling for compensation to be paid for their injuries.

The incident occurred in (more…)

After assaulting a fellow drinker with a glass bottle, David Mace had to pay £1,000 compensation to his victim Jason Brown, This is Gloucestershire reported.

Gloucester Crown Court had been told at a hearing earlier this year that the pair met each other when out drinking in Cirencester in January 2010, and after a dispute Mace (more…)

According to a BBC report, the Fletcher family from Warrington, Cheshire recently received £90,000 compensation for personal injury caused to their now 18-year-old son Robert by a combined Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination. The vaccination, administered when Robert was a toddler, left him (more…)