A construction firm based in Flixborough in North Lincolnshire has been fined a total of £13,000 after a worker sustained serious injuries after drilling through an underground cable. 26-year-old Richard Baisley, from Scunthorpe, had been told to dig two holes for a new sign to be placed outside Kim Barker Construction Ltd, where he worked. …
Premier Foods, the maker of the Loyd Grossman line of cooking sauces, could find itself with a product liability lawsuit on its hands after two people fell ill with botulism after consuming a jar of Loyd Grossman korma sauce. The incident occurred in Scotland, when two children in the same family fell ill after consuming …
The leading retail chain Boots is facing a claim for £100,000 in compensation after a rolling pin fell from its third floor window and fractured the skull of a baby below. Mother Claire Burns, 32 from Fife, says that the incident occurred on a shopping trip to Dundee in 2008. She and her father, Henry …
The US financial services organisation JPMorgan Chase & Co is being sued in a class action lawsuit filed by former customers of Bernard Madoff, who is now in prison for masterminding one of the largest financial frauds in US history. This latest lawsuit comes soon after a similar suit filed by Irving Picard, the trustee …
The entrepreneur Levi Roots, who owes his success to an appearance on the BBC programme Dragon’s Den, is reportedly being sued by a former friend over the recipe for his best-selling product, Reggae Reggae sauce. Roots, whose real name is Keith Valentine Graham, became a millionaire after persuading business moguls Richard Farleigh and Peter Jones …
A golf club has been ordered to pay a £5,000 fine after a businesswoman using its golf course was hit by a stray golf ball and injured. Rachel Davis, a marketing consultant, was hit in the face by a golf ball at the Branston Golf and Country Club in Staffordshire after she had finished her …
The Canadian telecommunications company Research in Motion (RIM) is reportedly being sued by Blackberry customers in Canada and the US for ‘breach of contract’. In the lawsuit, RIM, which provides the wireless solution for Blackberry devices, is accused of being responsible for the recent global outage on the network, which left users without internet service, …
The lifestyle consultant Carole Caplin, who is known for working with the former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, has been awarded substantial damages after filing a libel lawsuit against the Daily Mail. The case centres on an article published in the national newspaper back in September 2010, which was titled ‘Carole’s £1m …
One of the largest private mortgage lenders in the US, Allied Home Mortgage, is being sued for billions in damages after US prosecutors alleged it had engaged in reckless lending practices. Also named in the lawsuit, which was filed by the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, is the founder of Allied, James Hodge, who is …