Pleural plaques are a form of scarring of the lungs caused by their being penetrated by asbestos fibres. Since pleural plaques do not themselves cause any physical symptoms, the House of Lords ruled last year that compensation was not payable to people who...

A production worker has been awarded £220,000 in compensation after an accident at work in which a defective drill broke her arm. Caroline May, 47, was unaware that the drill was broken. When she turned it on, it kicked back and...

A trainee teacher whose pelvis was fractured when he was crushed by a reversing school mini-bus has been awarded £365,000 in compensation for his injuries. John Lewis, 32, was standing in front of his own vehicle in Finsbury Park...

A motorist who was seriously injured in a head-on collision has been awarded £90,000 in compensation. Chris Chambers, 34, who worked as a police administrator, was driving on Christmas Eve 1999 when a car travelling in the...

The widow of a mesothelioma victim has won a six-figure sum in compensation after her husband was exposed to asbestos at work. Ronald Rumney had worked for British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield as an electrician from 1960 until his...

A warehouse worker has been awarded £517,000 in compensation after he required a knee replacement following a workplace accident. Glyn Davies, 62, who worked for a motor manufacturer, was taking apart and re-erecting an industrial...

A woman who suffered brain damage as a result of following a special detox diet has been awarded £810,000 in compensation. Dawn Page, 52, had been following 'The Amazing Hydration Diet', supervised by nutritional therapist,...

An elderly woman, who suffered burns when she was trapped under a radiator that fell off the wall of her flat, has been awarded £20,000 in compensation. Margaretta Lewis, 87, had an electric wall radiator in her flat repaired by a...

A former professional footballer has won at least £4.3m in compensation after a tackle ended his promising career when he was just 18 years old. Ben Collett, now 23, was playing his first match for Manchester United reserves in...

A cyclist has been awarded undisclosed damages for injuries he sustained in a road traffic accident. Julian Richards, a British triathlete, was approaching a junction when a car pulled out in front of him without warning. He hit the car...

The family of a woman who was unknowingly exposed to asbestos at work has succeeded in a claim for compensation against her former employer. Margaret Dobson died just 5 months after she was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Until her...

A school caretaker who fell off a ladder at work has won the right to compensation. Anthony Gower-Smith, 73, fell off a stepladder in 2004 while trying to remove a display from a wall of the school. He fractured his skull and suffered...

A woman who developed asthma as a result of inhaling chemicals used at the chicken factory where she worked has won nearly £25,000 in damages in a Scottish court. Joyce Robson, 58, had worked for Grampian Country Chickens...

A paramedic has won over £60,000 in compensation after a van crashed into his ambulance. David Fenwick, 55, was in the passenger seat of the ambulance when a van driver sped through a red light and crashed into the vehicle. ...

A boy who was left disabled after he was deprived of oxygen at birth has been awarded damages of £8 million. Owen Wilson suffers from choreoathetoid cerebral palsy because he was deprived of oxygen for 17 minutes during his birth...

A freelance screen engineer who suffered serious leg injuries after being hit by a crane has been awarded £35,000 in compensation. Paul Bowling, 35, was working at Chester race course dismantling a large video screen. Each section...

A student who broke her ankle after one of her high heels snapped has been awarded £7,200 in compensation from the shoe chain Dolcis. Sophie King, 20, was wearing the £35 pair of shoes for the first time when the accident...

A woman who developed mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos fibres when handling her husband’s clothes has been awarded £130,000 in compensation. Jacky Merritt’s husband, Don, worked as a lagger for a large...

Parents who were misinformed by doctors that their unborn child did not have a genetic disorder have been awarded £1.8 million in compensation. The couple already had two children when the wife became pregnant with her third child....

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a rugby club must pay damages for an injury caused when one of its players deliberately punched an opponent during a match. The incident occurred during a National League Division 2 rugby union match...

A 14-year-old girl who was paralysed when a neighbour’s porch collapsed on top of her has been awarded damages of £300,000. Zoe Talbot was 10 years old when the accident happened in 2004. She was playing with her friend next...

A man who was knocked off his bicycle by a 40-tonne road sweeper has been awarded more than £200,000 in compensation for his injuries. Dr Glyn Powell, 58, was cycling home from work when the accident happened. The road...

With the current obsession in the media with knife crime, a sense of perspective may be restored by a new study which reports that injuries and fatalities at work may be significantly under-reported in official statistics and suggests that workers are...

Government ministers have pledged their support for UK victims of a painkilling drug, manufactured in the USA, which was found to have dangerous side effects. Members of Parliament have agreed to put pressure on the US drug company,...

The family of a man killed by a bus that mounted the pavement has been awarded compensation at the High Court. The accident occurred in 2004. Bent Hjerting, 61, was walking with his two sons, Harald and Gustavus, when two buses collided...