Personal Injury Law News

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined a building company for failing to warn its employees that asbestos was present in a school they were working on. Greswolde Construction Ltd was prosecuted by the HSE after it was found that the company had been in possession of a survey detailing the location of the asbestos.

Children living in poorerareas of the country are more likely to be victims of a road accident, a report by the data analysis body Road Safety Analysis (RSA) has found.

A group of ex-miners is claiming that they were under compensated by a government scheme.

Tyneside company has been fined £8,000 after a worker’s hand was badly injured after it became caught between two metal rollers.

A local authority that failed to maintain the shrubs surrounding a pedestrian crossing has been held to have breached its duty of care to pedestrians and contributed to a road accident.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has warned consumers to beware of an insurance guide which they say is evidence of a growing trend where insurers contact injured victims directly.

The rise in personal injury claims has not been halted by reforms to regulate claims-handling companies, research has found.

The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision which held a claimant one third to blame for an accident where she was crushed by a bus.