In today’s litigation and blame culture, it makes smart business sense to take out some form of professional insurance to protect your company’s assets and reputation. Certain types of business are more vulnerable to lawsuits than others, such as those involved high-risk finance deals or those working within the customer service industry. Customer service businesses …
Paul Postle, the photographer behind some of British band Blur’s most iconic images is reportedly suing record company EMI after a collection of his photos were accidentally thrown away by cleaners. To add insult to injury for Mr Postle, EMI apparently took six years to inform him of the mistake. Postle, who is based in …
Supermarket company Asda is reportedly facing legal action over a customer’s claims that she found a dead frog in a bottle of wine. Isolde Beesley claims that on Boxing Day 2009, whilst pouring a glass of Moscatel de Valencia (a white dessert wine from Spain, costing £3.58) she bought from Asda three days earlier, a …
According to the Wall Street Journal, financial giants Goldman Sachs and TCW Asset Management, a Société Générale unit, are currently being sued by German Bank Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg (LBBW). In the lawsuit, LBBW accuses both firms of fraud, negligence and wrongful conduct when marketing, managing and selling the bank a complex structured financial product. LBBW claims …
Paramount Pictures is reportedly being sued by an extra who was injured on the set of the new Transformers 3 film and consequently suffered brain damage. Whilst working as an extra on the set of the new action movie in Hammond, Indiana, aspiring actress Gabriela Cedillo, 24, was reportedly hit with a large chunk of …
Ossie Kilkenny, the Irish financial advisor who has worked with the likes of U2, The Verve, Bryan Adams and more recently, Susan Boyle, is reportedly suing Associated Newspapers for a defamatory article about him that appeared in the Daily Mail last March. The story in question, centred on the Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle, …
Unlike other types of professional insurance where cover is optional and dependant on the needs of the business, employers’ liability insurance is required by law. So, if you have employees, you are legally required to have at least a minimum level of liability cover. Protecting Your Employees The reason this insurance cover is compulsory is …
Rockstar Games has won its legal battle, and substantial damages, from the publishers of the Daily Star after the newspaper printed reports that the game makers were planning to release a new game based on the hunt for crazed gunman Raoul Moat. The controversial claim was made in the Daily Star this summer, where it …
A chicken factory in Thetford, Norfolk, has been fined more than £8,000 after an employee trapped his hand in machinery and lost the skin on the back of his hand. The worker trapped a glove in a machine designed to de-skin chicken carcasses and subsequently lost all the skin between his knuckles and his wrist …