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- Accident at Work
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Two companies have been fined over £600,000 in total following the ‘entirely preventable’ deaths of two men who were asphyxiated trying to rescue a colleague from the hold of a barge.
The men, Robert MacDonald from Appin and Maarten Den Heijer...- Details
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Thompsons Solicitors have added an Employment Law Solicitor, Aidan West, to their team in Aberdeen.
Aidan will undertake advice and representation in contentious and non-contentious disputes including all forms of employment rights, dismissals,...- Details
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Solicitors, trade unionists and victims have lashed out at the insurance industry for attacking drivers suffering from whiplash as ‘fakes and fraudsters’.
The Association of British Insurers branded the UK the whiplash capital of Europe and...- Details
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Staff at Thompsons Solicitors are getting on their bikes to ensure they offer a better service to victims of cycling accidents.
Half a dozen of the firm’s lawyers and support staff have signed up for an 8-hour Cycle Commuter Course run by Cycle...- Details
- Medical Products
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A SCHOOLGIRL has received more than £1 million in compensation after being told to use eyedrops by one of the country's leading eye specialists when she had a tumour that has since left her blind.
The girl’s mother sued Ewan Kemp, a consultant...- Details
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The family of a motorcyclist who died when his Harley Davidson ploughed into an oncoming after swerving to avoid a sharply braking van, has been awarded £270,000 compensation.
Paul Bellingham from Limavady in Northen Ireland was on holiday in...- Details
- Asbestos News
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Thompsons Solicitors, the only law firm to represent individual clients at the Court of Session Judicial Review hearings on pleural plaques, has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to take on insurance companies over the issue.
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- Serious and Fatal Injury
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The Health and Safety Executive has joined police to investigate the death of a 49 year-old diver in the northern North Sea Sector.
The Shetland coastguard rescue helicopter was scrambled in an attempt to save the man who took ill while diving with...- Details
- Asbestos News
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Pleural Plaques Opinion - 12th April 2011 Picture courtesy of the Daily Record
Pleural Plaques campaigners and victims expressed their delight at the decisions of three Court of Session Appeal Judges who...- Details
- Thompsons Awards
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The DX Firm of the Year has been building on its core strengths, writes Andrew Collier.
Being a niche player could, you might think, be something of a disadvantage. After all, you're up against all those frighteningly competent, well embedded,...
