The electronics giant Apple is reportedly looking to file a new patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola over its tablet computer design, fresh from a court victory in Germany against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. After claiming that the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is an imitation of the iPad, Apple recently succeeded in gaining …
A recycling firm has been prosecuted and fined after an employee was crushed between two skips at one of its centres in the Scottish town of Ayr in Ayrshire. The incident occurred when 46-year-old employee Steven Graham was working between two skips and an 18-tonne shovel loader hit one of them. This caused Graham to …
A new ruling by a federal court judge has denied Harley Davidson’s motion to dismiss overheating claims by Harley bikers, meaning that the class action product liability lawsuit against the biking firm can now go ahead. The complaint, filed by four bikers in the US, alleges that certain Harley Davidson motorcycles were defectively designed and …
Mortgage broker John Bagguley, a founder of the Provincial Finance Company, is reportedly set to file a libel lawsuit against a former client after he was accused of mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). Banks and other lenders have been swamped with PPI mis-selling claims in the last year, as soon as the UK courts ruled …
An engineering firm based in the Lancashire town of Burnley has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a contractor fell from the roof of its factory. Lupton & Place was fined £6,000 over the incident, in which a 67-year-old contractor fell through a roof panel. He was lucky enough …
The Building Design Partnership (BDP) is reportedly facing a professional negligence lawsuit over ventilation problems at the Westminster Academy building in Westbourne Green in London. The Education Secretary Michael Gove is said to have joined the Academy in filing the lawsuit against BDP, which was the lead consultant on the £23 million school project. According …
Bank of America is reportedly facing a lawsuit from The American International Group (AIG) over hundreds of mortgage-backed securities. AIG’s lawsuit centres on the allegation that Bank of America misrepresented the standard of mortgage bond investments that lenders offered to investors ahead of the global economic crisis. The organisation is seeking compensation from Bank of …
The controversial US singer Lady Gaga has reportedly been named in a copyright infringement lawsuit over her hit single, ‘Judas’. The lawsuit, which was filed by aspiring singer Rebecca Francescatti in a federal court in the US earlier this month (August 2011), alleges that Lady Gaga’s single ‘Judas’ was lifted from one of her own …
A construction firm with offices throughout the UK has reportedly filed a lawsuit against its own lawyers over allegations of negligence in the drafting of contracts. In the lawsuit filed at the High Court, Shepherd Construction accuses law firm Pinsent Masons of negligence in drafting contracts for the company. This complaint stems from a court …