An American personal injury legal firm is warning claimants not to settle claims too quickly with BP and inadvertently sign away rights to compensation for future damages. BP has already compensated victims of the Gulf oil spill crisis nearly $400 million dollars, with $20 billion put aside for future claims. US firm Beasley Allen says claimants should take a hard line against BP’s settlement protocol and is also saying the compensation fund organised by BP may need to be larger to handle the growing number of compensation claims being lined up. The Beasley ...
Former miners who claim they received inadequate compensation for Vibration White Finger under a Government scheme are launching a legal challenge. A Government compensation scheme was set up just over ten years ago to settle compensation claims but many miners now say that they did not receive the full amounts they were entitled to. At least eight companies are expected to face a personal injury legal compensation action from around 25 former pit workers for Vibration White Finger (VWF), a serious debilitating condition caused by using vibrating machinery and power tools. The companies ...
A man working for a haulage firm has received a six figure personal injury compensation payout. The man, whose name has not been released but who worked as a shunter, was helping to load pallets on to wagons. The man was seriously injured when he was flung from a barrow truck while working at a UK haulage company and has since received £245,000 in personal injury compensation. The injury occurred as he reversed the truck to straighten it and then move forward. But it slid and spun around, ...
Workers suffering from asbestos related disease can apply for a £5,000 injury compensation payment, the Ministry of Justice has announced. The Ministry of Justice are in a position to start accepting claims. The announcement follows a long running saga in which the previous Government was accused of abandoning victims suffering from asbestos related illnesses after it announced earlier this year that it would not change a Law Lords ruling preventing sufferers of pleural plaques from claiming compensation. Pleural plaques are a scarring of the lungs which shows exposure ...
Five companies have been ordered to pay a combined total of £9.5 million following the devastating fire and explosion at Buncefield Oil Storage Depot in 2005, the largest peacetime explosion in British history. The firms were sentenced at St Albans Crown Court following a joint prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency. Around 5.30am, December 11 2005, an industrial petrol storage tank operated by HOSL started to overflow, in part due to a failure of two critical safety systems - an internal fuel levels gauge ...
