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 ...
A woman has received a multi-million pound personal injury compensation settlement, after she suffered severe whiplash injuries when her vehicle collided with a dead horse. The $2.7 million injury compensation settlement is thought to be the highest linked to an animal compensation claim. The woman suffered permanent full-body whiplash injuries in the crash, and still requires strong pain relief and treatment for her injuries. It is thought to be one of the biggest personal injury settlements, resulting from an accident involving a horse or some form of livestock. The horse had been previously hit ...
More than £15 million in personal injury compensation has been claimed over the past five years by prisoners in UK jails, according to information obtained following Freedom of Information (FoI) requests. The numbers of compensation claims instigated against the prison authorities has also been rising, the numbers of claims nearly doubling since 2005. And according to the latest figures the number of compensation claims made by prisoners is set to escalate even more in the next few years. Prisoners can legally make a claim for compensation. If the prison authorities fail in ...
Insurers are detecting more fraudulent insurance claims than ever before according to figures released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The ABI says that last year more than 2,000 dishonest insurance claims worth more than £16 million were detected every week, with many claims coming from bogus personal injury compensation claims. Nick Starling, the ABI’s Director of General Insurance and Health, says: “Reducing fraud remains an ongoing battle for the insurance industry. Our honest customers rightly object to having to pay higher premiums to subsidise the fraudulent ...
The Met Police have apologised to two brother students and agreed to pay £25,000 in personal injury compensation. Ashley and Russell Inglis were involved in protests at the Israeli Embassy in London on 3 January 2009 when the assaults took place. The Metropolitan Police have apologised and paid £12,500 each to the twin brothers for the unprovoked assaults which took place by police officers in the course of the protests outside the Israeli Embassy in London. Ashley Inglis initially wanted an apology from the police and complained to the Independent Police Complaints ...
