The owner of a cafe in Northampton has been fined £15,000 after a teenage employee suffered horrific burns when she slipped and put her hand into a deep fat fryer.
According to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo the teenager, Miss Hannah Faulkes was working as a cookery assistant when the accident happened. She tripped while working [...]

A family has been awarded compensation after their son was severely brain damaged during his birth.
The child, who is now four, suffered catastrophic injuries which have left him needing twenty four hour care. His mother launched an injury compensation claim against the hospital trust after she believed that the hospital made terrible mistakes during the [...]

A man who was in respite care on the Isle of Wight has been awarded compensation after he suffered a serious injury.
Mr Brian Leek was in the care of Gouldings Care Home when hot water from a shower he was using scalded him. He suffered around 13% burns in the injury and had to be [...]

A man has suffered an accident at work in which he was impaled by two steel bars.
The incident, which occurred at the Allevard Springs Ltd factory in Clydach Vale, resulted in the HSE prosecuting the spring company, as further safety precautions should have been in place on the machine where the man was working.
The [...]

Woolworths’ employees may be in line for compensation payouts, after Usdaw, the union representing some of the shop workers, won an employment tribunal.
Usdaw claimed that the administrators for Woolworths failed to speak to the union before the redundancies were made, which was a breach of legal obligations. The tribunal found that members of Usdaw who [...]

A couple have been awarded compensation after their holiday was ruined after they contracted food poisoning.
The pair of travellers fell ill towards the end of their holiday. One man was diagnosed with salmonella poisoning and still suffers stomach pains and diarrhoea. They made a compensation claim against Thomas Cook and were successful, winning a five-figure [...]

A man is seeking over £300,000 in road traffic accident compensation after the car in which he was travelling had a serious collision.
Mr Steven Whitcher was a front seat passenger in the car at the time of the incident. The vehicle was being driven by a friend.
The collision happened in January 2009 when another vehicle [...]

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a man after his fingertip was sliced off in an accident at work.
The HSE brought the case to Fenton Magistrate’s Court after an investigation found that a guard on the upper part of the saw he was using had not been fitted in the correct position. They [...]

A serious road traffic accident has resulted in a pedestrian claiming RTA compensation.
The victim of the accident, Allister Reid, was trapped underneath the vehicle after the accident occurred and suffered severe injuries including a fractured skull and injuries to both arms and legs.
He was taken to the Royal Alexandra hospital following the incident where [...]

Sheffield Council has revealed that it will pay employees compensation after some staff were being paid less than others, even though they were in equivalently graded jobs.
Winners of the out-of-court compensation settlement include cleaners, dinner ladies and carers. They will win compensation after it was revealed that some men in equivalent jobs were awarded [...]