A Broker in Nottingham recalls a home visit where she found herself in hot water. Literally. “One claim which always sticks in my mind as being hilarious was when we visited the client’s house to collect premiums and renew policies, one of which was his household policy. “My husband (and business partner) was kindly given …
A pizza takeaway in the Lancashire town of St Helens could potentially face a public liability lawsuit after a young woman fell through the floor of the building when it collapsed. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday 9th April, when revellers enjoying Bank Holiday celebrations were heading home. The woman, who has …
The major American film studio Twentieth Century Fox is reportedly facing a lawsuit from a comedy club chain based in the UK over the rights to the name ‘Glee’. Comic Enterprises Ltd, which owns four The Glee Club venues in Birmingham, Cardiff, Nottingham and Oxford, is in the process of suing 20th Century Fox over …
The controversial TV chef Gordon Ramsay has reportedly filed a defamation lawsuit against one of his former associates over claims that he was “too busy” to promote their Canadian restaurant. Danny Lavy has made comments in which he claims that the celebrity chef failed to promote their business, the Laurier Gordon Ramsay restaurant in Montreal, …
The biotechnology company United Therapeutics Corp. has confirmed earilier this month that it has filed a lawsuit against Sandoz, Novartis AG’s generic unit, for patent infringement. Sandoz reportedly filed approached the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last January with a marketing application for a new pulmonary hypertension drug. The drug Sandoz wants to sell …
A Peterborough man who was seriously injured in a workplace accident is reportedly set to recive more than £1 million in compensation from his employers. 34-year-old Christopher Holmes was working for A S Joinery, which was sub-contracting to R G Carter, at a college in the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots when the incident occurred. …
A Spanish radio station has reportedly agreed to pay a sizeable settlement to FC Barcelona after it was sued for defamation by the club. The station, Cadena COPE, alleged in March 2011 that the Barcelona team had been involved in a doping scandal. It recently admitted that the allegations were not true, were based on …
The supermarket giant Tesco has reportedly paid out an undisclosed four figure sum in compensation to a pensioner after he slipped and fell on the wet floor of one of its stores. Ronald Fryer, 80, was injured after slipping on the wet floor of a Tesco store in Worcester back in October 2009. The pensioner …
Palo Alto Networks is facing a new patent infringement lawsuit from Juniper Networks, which is accusing the firm of wilfully infringing on six of its patents. In the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Juniper Networks claims that although the technology used to create …