Asbestos injury payout reforms attacked
16th May 2013
An MP has attacked the Government’s new personal injury payout reforms. The plans, outlined in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, are...
Rome crash victim settles for £3m
15th May 2013
A High Court judge has approved a compensation package of more than £3 million for a man who sustained “catastrophic injuries” when he wa...
Dog law extends to private property
10th May 2013
New legislation extending dangerous dogs law to make it an offence for a dog to be dangerously out of control in any place, including all private prop...
Compensation for Asbestos Victims
09th May 2013
In July 2012, the Government published a response to the Consultation “Accessing Payment – Supporting people who need to trace Employers’ Liabil...
Company admits neglecting safety of employees
07th May 2013
On 19 April 2013, Staples Disposables Limited was successfully prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at Lincoln Crown Court and ordered ...
Police “failed to protect” Asperger syndrome sufferer
07th May 2013
http://www.channel4.com/news/call-for-action-on-hate-crime-against-people-with-autism Anna West, Solicitor in IBB’s Personal Injury and Clinical Neg...
24th April 2013
The case of Charlotte Shaw, a 14-year-old school girl who fell and drowned on Dartmoor whilst crossing a swollen stream on a school trip in 2007, has ...
£8.5m payout for brain-damaged boy
19th April 2013
A boy who suffered catastrophic brain damage after a “catalogue of errors” at his birth has been awarded a substantial compensation package. Alfie...
Chemicals company prosecuted for serious safety failings
08th April 2013
A London-based chemicals company has been prosecuted after a worker was run over by a forklift truck and had to have part of his leg amputated. The 59...
Quarter of London building sites fail safety checks
08th April 2013
Nearly a quarter of building sites in London have failed to meet minimum health and safety legal standards. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visi...
Asbestos discovered at Folkestone’s Grand Burstin Hotel
04th April 2013
A hotel chain which runs the Grand Burstin on Folkestone’s seafront has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 in fines and costs after constructio...
Hate crimes against disabled people soar to a record level
04th April 2013
‘Anti-scrounger’ rhetoric blamed for doubling of offences since 2008 financial crisis The Independent reports that the number of disabilit...
Hate crime: Police record attacks on punks, emos and goths
04th April 2013
The BBC website has reported today, a police force has begun recording attacks on members of subcultures, such as goths and emos, as hate crimes. Gre...
Brain damaged boy awarded £7.3m
21st March 2013
A boy who was left brain damaged after heart surgery as a baby has been awarded £7.3 million in compensation. Robbie Crane, 13, from Hemel Hempstead ...
Safe road laws protect just 7%
19th March 2013
Comprehensive road safety law protects only 7% of the world’s population – a statistic which has to change quickly if the number of road d...
The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
25th February 2013
These Regulations are intended to affect an increase in the amounts of compensation paid to sufferers of pneumoconiosis, byssinosis or diffuse mesothe...
Hunt: NHS staff responsible for scandal should go
11th February 2013
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt believes the staff responsible for the poor care that led to hundreds of deaths in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS scandal shou...
Widow wants criminal charges for hospital
07th February 2013
An elderly widow will pursue criminal charges after her husband’s sudden death in Stafford Hospital forced her to move out of her home and into ...
Learn lessons, say grieving parents
24th January 2013
The parents of Imogen Skelcher, a baby girl who was delivered brain dead after a number of “critical failures” by hospital midwives, have called o...
Negligence claims ‘burdening NHS’
14th January 2013
The Medical Defence Union is concerned that medical negligence settlements worth billions of pounds are putting an “unsustainable” burden on the N...
Panel out to stop ‘jobsworths’
24th December 2012
A health and safety “myth-buster” panel has taken a stand against “jobsworths” who it says use legitimate guidelines to mask u...
Plan to speed up asbestos compensation process
20th December 2012
Efforts to speed up the time it takes to settle compensation claims for sufferers of asbestos-related cancer, could involve restricting the solicitors...
Government bids to cut whiplash claims
12th December 2012
A move has been made to cut the burgeoning number of whiplash claims. The Government wants to reduce the number of fraudulent or exaggerated claims &#...
Support for inquiry into doctor’s conduct
03rd December 2012
A former doctor at the centre of a health probe could face a public inquiry into his conduct after a mother whose young daughter died from cervical ca...
Proposals will ‘erode workplace safety’
05th November 2012
Legislation that will make it harder for employees to claim compensation for accidents in the workplace will take workers’ rights back to those ...
Number of work-related injuries falls
02nd November 2012
The amount of work-related injuries has decreased this year, recent data suggests. Roughly 22,400 major injuries were recorded from March 2011 to Marc...
Hinkley A-Related asbestos deaths concern coroner
26th October 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-20084182 Laura Thompson, Solicitor in IBB’s Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence team comment...
Domestic devices are workplace risk
04th October 2012
UK employees are exposing themselves to unnecessary risks by bringing electrical items from home into the workplace without having them safety checked...
MP launches ‘no win,no fee’ attack
20th September 2012
The Government has been urged to re-evaluate its ‘no win, no fee’ policies following criticism from an opposition MP. Labour MP Chris Brya...
Care home fined over resident’s death
13th September 2012
A care home firm responsible for running 27 homes across the country has been fined £165,000 for health and safety breaches after a resident died wh...
