Solider’s No Win No Fee Claim for Compensation

    A FORMER army corporal from Blyth who was told to ‘act like a psycho’ during a training exercise has been awarded £25,000 after a resulting injury cut short his army career. Daniel Brosnan...
Avondale Mills-Norfolk Southern Train Wreck Lawsuit Settled Monday (WJBF-TV Augusta)

    A major lawsuit involving the Graniteville train accident was settled Monday. Avondale Mills claims they were directly affected by the January 2005 accident…wrkers inside the mills at the time of the crash...
Swazi King gives PM SMS order of boot

    U R sakd, now push off m8 The former Prime Minister of Swaziland was sacked by text message last September following a political reshuffle by the southern African nation’s King. ...
Business texts the ‘next big thing’ – Voda

    Ur sackd, gudby Vodafone is looking to drum up extra revenues by getting business users to text more. ...
Compensation Settlements for Too Slow

    Victims of violent crimes are being compensated too slowly, the National Audit Office has said. Its report said the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority took an average of 515 days to resolve cases in...
Citigroup Confirms $33 Million Smith Barney Gender Bias Settlement (Insurance Journal)

    Citigroup Inc. Friday confirmed it agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers at its Smith Barney unit to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit. The ag ...
Load handling causes a third of accidents at work

    According to HSE statistics, more than a third of all industrial accidents each year are caused by handling loads… ...
City Hall wheelchair ramp sparks political brawl in San Francisco (The Fresno Bee)

    When Michela Alioto-Pier was an aide to Vice President Al Gore in 1992, she couldn’t navigate her wheelchair in some areas of the West Wing. ...
Sacked-by-text staff win compensation

    Gr8 Workers at the Accident Group, the no win, no fee personal injury claims outfit that went titsup with debts of more than £30 million earlier this year, have won a compensation claim...
Grandad refused No WIn No Fee Compensation

    A GRANDFATHER who has watched four friends and former colleagues die of the same asbestos-related disease he suffers from, has been denied the right to claim compensation by the Court of Appeal. Retired...