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Hospitality liability
Lexington Insurance (part of AIG) offers Hospitality Select, a specially tailored product for the hospitality industry – hotels, lodging houses, gaming establishments, clubs, resorts, casinos and restaurants, including fast food outlets.
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New war zones cover
A new policy from MAP Underwriting at Lloyd’s covers damage to corporate performance in volatile zones, such as Israel during the current Arab-Israeli situation.
A company’s liability for injury – including injury to its own..
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Management liability cover
Three leading players are now offering packages of management liability coverage, all with helplines and risk management services.
AIG’s Financial Protector is aimed at privately owned UK companies with a turnover below £75mn.
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Home Envirosearch Insurance
Home Envirosearch Insurance is a new environmental insurance developed between AIG Europe, Aon and Landmark Information Group, running alongside Landmark’s Home Envirosearch reports.
The implementation of part IIA of the Environmental..
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HIH fallout continues
David Knott, chairman of the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC), has resigned from the board of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) ‘in order to avoid any ongoing conflict [of interest]’.
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US investigation team for Lloyd’s
FBI investigators came to London in May to conduct interviews at the US Embassy with senior Lloyd’s figures as part of a continuing US criminal investigation.
Although a series of European court decisions have cleared Lloyd’s of tricking..
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Legal costs increase Lloyd’s deficit
Despite an overall surplus of £119mn (£77mn in 1999), the operating deficit of the Corporation of Lloyd’s of London rose from £9mn to £25mn last year. An important factor in this is the cost of defence against actions..
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S&P upgrades Iron Trades to A
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Credit default confusion
What’s in a name? Quite a lot, according to the lawsuit filed in the high court by Swiss Re Financial Products Corp against XL Insurance.
Swiss Re sought to collect on a US$20mn credit default agreement taken out on Armstrong Holdings when..
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Derbyshire costs ruling
In applications for costs arising from the Derbyshire
public inquiry, Justice Colman ruled that a significant proportion of the costs of privately funded parties – Bibby Tankers, Swan Hunter and Lloyd’s Register of Shipping – be..
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Slave labour payouts cleared
The decision of a US appeals court that a lower court had overstepped its authority by setting conditions on the agreement to compensate Second World War slave labourers – negotiated between the US and Germany over a two-year period –..
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Suit against Marsh revised
A suit filed in the New York State supreme court against Marsh & McLennan alleges the broker ‘deliberately or negligently concealed’ the extent of likely asbestos claims when it placed general liability policies in the Lloyd’s..
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Bright star to black hole
You will all have read, day by day, of Independent Insurance’s plummet, and matters will have moved on between LRI
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Liability Underwriters’ Group annual conference
4–6 September • Queen’s College, Cambridge • Unforeseen exposures faced by the liability insurance market continue to manifest themselves, many in a disastrous or catastrophic form. As these exposures are identified,..
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Personal liability for foreign firms in Japan
The Japanese Ministry of Justice is considering introducing regulations placing personal liability on branch managers of foreign companies for any losses arising from corporate wrongdoing. This would bring them into line with domestic companies..
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Global application of judgments
The Hague Conference on Private International Law is working to finalise a convention allowing international application and enforcement of legal judgments.
Some business organisations, including the CBI, have expressed fears that European companies..
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Lord Woolf calls for green tribunal
The Lord Chief Justice, giving the Environmental Law Foundation’s annual lecture, called for the establishment of a tribunal – preferably on an international scale – to deal with public concerns on issues such as BSE,..
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Endowment mortgage guidelines
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued guidelines on compensation for misselling of endowment mortgages. Where an eventual payout leaves a shortfall, compensation from endowment firms and financial advisers will be expected to make this..
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Life policy surrender: PIA advice
The Personal Investment Authority (PIA) has issued guidelines for life offices dealing with enquiries about surrender values of with-profits endowment policies.
While many offices already tell their customers of the option of selling their policy in..
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Windfall ruling awaited
The Personal Investment Authority (PIA) has given permission to insurers and financial advisers to delay paying compensation for missold pensions until the court ruling on how to treat demutualisation windfall bonuses.
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Future loss ruling awaited
Damages for future loss, when assessed, are subject to discount, and for some years the Lord Chancellor has had the statutory power to fix the rate – but has not done so. Now, following a consultation paper, a decision is promised in the..
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CFA adjournment
The court of appeal has adjourned the case of Callery v Gray
, which will clarify recovery of after-the-event insurance costs. But it is already clear that insurers will be required to refund these premiums as part of costs, even when cover has been..
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Private school cover in Japan
AIU Insurance is to offer cover to private schools in Japan, responding to the financial impact of claims based on bullying and sexual harassment. The School Protection insurance will offer two policies with ceilings of ¥30mn and ¥50mn..
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Passenger accident policies
A planned change of paragraph 8a of the German road traffic law will extend the cover of a driver’s liability policy to nonpaying passengers. This will make obsolete the high-profit, low-loss passenger accident policies sold by German insurers..
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VDS to pay for claims delay
German property/casualty insurer Volksfürsorge Deutsche Sachversicherung plans to offer compensation to customers who have to wait more than 10 days for an initial payment. DM100 will be paid to motor, household and private liability..
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St Paul’s syndicates
Detailed reports of most of the 11 syndicates, due for condensation into a single syndicate 1211, appear in our sister journal London Market Newsletter
issue 678.
Details: Jessica Steel at Informa • tel 020 7553 1851 •..
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St Paul International’s 2000 results
Results for the year ending 30 September 2000 show the second pretax loss in success for St Paul International as underwriting performance continues to deteriorate.
This is despite substantial premium growth, with UK revenue up 71% and that from..
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Insurance to go on national file?
Pointing out that uninsured driving in Ireland cost I£95mn last year, the Irish Insurance Federation stepped up its call for update of the National Vehicle File to show the existence (or not) of insurance.
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Children’s car seats
An investigation into 17 types of child seats, carried out for the AA and other European motoring organisations, found only one good, nine ‘satisfactory’ and seven ‘poor’. The tests looked at side impact in typical 16 mph..
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Whiplash action
Motor insurers have provided £1mn in extra funding to the UK motor insurance repair research centre at Thatcham in a bid to cut personal injury whiplash claims. Currently estimated at £800mn a year, they are expected to rise to £1bn..
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Equitable’s auditors in spotlight
The role of Ernst & Young, former auditor for Equitable Life, is to be investigated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
This will assess the competence of Ernst & Young in analysing the financial statements of the company, and also..
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Cullen report on rail crash
A damning report, highlighting ‘institutional paralysis’ and ‘lamentable failure’ to reduce risks goes with a call for wide-ranging improvements within the next two years. Inquiry chairman Lord Cullen emphasised that the rail..
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Child/teacher protection
A call to Childline accusing a successful headmaster of inappropriate behaviour led to his suspension and subsequent dismissal.
Police and social services investigated the allegations and interviewed children over a four-month period, but no charges..
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Part 2: conclusion
John Moore, claims manager and director of Wren Managers, gives an overview of developments in this important area. Part 1 appeared last month.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) can mean anything that is not court proceedings. In the glossary to..
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Foot-and-mouth threat to aircraft
The Civil Aviation Authority has warned that foot-and-mouth disinfectants used on British planes when abroad ‘could pose a serious safety risk.’ There are fears that washes of sodium hypochlorite could lead to deterioration of aircraft..
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Helicopter ambulance claims reopen
Settlement of one of the largest product liability cases on record – the 1993 crash of a helicopter ambulance outside Kansas City, killing pilot and patient and injuring nurse and therapist – has just beaten time limits to be reopened...
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Everglades: settlement for hazardous materials on board
SabreTech has agreed to pay US$1.75mn to settle all actions based on allegations of illegal placement of hazardous materials on board a passenger plane. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ValuJet crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996, killing all 110..
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Qantas bans potential DVT victims
A number of travellers identified as at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) when flying have been refused tickets by airline Qantas.
Despite his doctor’s assurance that he was fit to fly, businessman Rolf Lenhart – who had..
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Psychological injury: article 17
The English and Scottish courts are in disagreement over the extent of article 17 of the Warsaw Convention. In Morris v KLM
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the court of appeal held that psychological injuries – unaccompanied by physical injuries – were not envisaged..
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Loss of luggage liability
US district judge Christina Snyder has found American Airlines and British West Indies Airlines jointly responsible for the death of 75-year-old Caroline Neischer.
Although Ms Neischer had previously carried her asthma treatment equipment with her,..
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Styrene spill near Shanghai
A toxic leakage of 700 tonnes of styrene from South Korean freighter Dayong
, involved in collision with a Hong Kong ship near Shanghai, could pollute coastal waters and damage the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen for years to come, according..
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Major claim for Galapagos spill
The government of Ecuador has hired Miami law firm Podhurst Orseck Josefsberg Eaton Meadow Olin & Perwin (which has a track record of handling substantial government claims against the tobacco industry) to file a major claim against Miami-based..
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Radioactive contamination of land
A New Orleans jury has ordered Exxon Mobil to pay US$1.06bn in respect of radioactive contamination of 13.2 hectares of land, leased since the 1950s from former Judge Grefer. The cleanup component is US$56mn, US$1bn punitive.
Exxon denies it knew of..
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Coca-Cola settlement
An Atlanta court-approved settlement of US$192.5mn is reported to be the largest ever for race discrimination, through an alleged policy of denial of promotion of Black workers to better paid jobs.
More than 2,000 of Coca-Cola’s present and..
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Lead paint rethink
California’s Santa Clara superior court has rejected three of the charges of a major lead poisoning suit brought by the cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland and nine other public agencies against a number of paint manufacturers. But..
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Tobacco update
In the first successful third-party litigant action
in a smoking liability suit, the jury in the New York State supreme court has ordered Big Tobacco to pay damages to New York’s largest healthcare organisation, Empire Blue Cross & Blue..
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Fairchild: straw in the wind?
While the appeal in Fairchild
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USG considers bankruptcy filing
Chicago-based wallboard manufacturer USG has issued a statement saying the company is considering filing for bankruptcy protection against the cost of settling asbestos claims.
USG subsidiary US Gypsum expects this year’s asbestos injury..
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New asbestos impact study
A report from consulting firm Tillinghast-Towers Perrin believes payments and related expenses for exposure to asbestos in the US will ultimately reach US$200bn. Of this, 60% will be borne by the insurance industry, more than half carried by non-US..
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Mobile phones and benign tumours
Research led by Lennart Hardell, professor of oncology at Orebo Medical Centre in Sweden, links the use of certain mobile phones to the development of benign brain tumours.
This is the latest stage of an ongoing research project, based on 1,617..
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Phone shield patents cited in claim
Despite the stance of no proven risk, the major mobile phone companies have been developing their own devices to reduce the brain’s absorption of radiation for some years, according to the Wireless Consumers Alliance. Nokia filed a patent..
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Silicone implant payout
More than 3,000 Australian women suing Dow Corning over the effects of silicone breast implants have won a A$38.4mn payout. This is the only deal accepted by Dow Corning to date.
It has already been approved by the US Federal Bankruptcy Court.The..
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Inter-Op hip replacements
Sulzer Medica has acknowledged inadequate insurance for recall and associated operations and treatment of Inter-Op hip replacement units.
It had expected around 1,000 replacements but the current number has surpassed 1,700, with yet more to come at..
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Interneuron/AHP agreement
Interneuron Pharmaceuticals has entered into a liability agreement with American Home Products in respect of Interneuron’s antiobesity drug Redux (one of the fenphen drugs).
This provides complete indemnification for certain classes of product..
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Paxil implicated in violence
A Wyoming jury has awarded US$6.4mn to the remaining family of Donald Schell, who killed his wife, daughter and granddaughter the day after starting a course of Paxil antidepressant. The aim of the family action was to clear his name and alert the..
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Duty to drunken customer
A woman who had been drinking heavily for some hours was injured by a car when walking home. She sued the driver and the club where she had been drinking. Despite several refusals to serve her, and the offer of a courtesy bus or taxi to take her..
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Loss of parental guidance
A young mother whose husband had been killed in a road accident sought additional damages on behalf of her children for their loss of parental support, guidance and training. On appeal this was disallowed. Justice Wallwork commented: ‘Although..
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Encouragement to work
Stress at work led to an abattoir foreman suffering symptoms of childhood polio. He was treated for his physical and psychiatric condition and given an off-work medical certificate. His employer encouraged him to continue working but as a result he..
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Vicarious liability for receptionist’s delay
A man died of cerebral haemorrhage after his wife had made an appointment but before he was seen by his doctor. The court held that although in this specific case the receptionist (who gave the appointment) could not have been expected to recognise..
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The absent-minded farmhand
A farmhand was injured when he crashed into a concealed gate while riding his motorbike.
Although the farmhand was responsible for both its erection and maintenance, the court held that the accident was foreseeable and that his employer should have..
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New information after award: the trusting insurer
A claimant sought compensation for injury to his ankle, which he twisted when he stepped in a large pothole in a grassed area outside his home. He won £238,000 against the second defendant.
A local resident, who read about the award in the..
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Liability split in road accident
Two cars collided ‘on or close to the centre line’ of a road, according to experts. There were no witnesses. On appeal it was held that liability should be split 50/50 rather than allocated to a single driver on the basis of the position..
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Public funding is no defence for defective product
The fact of public funding did not release a hospital from liability for a defective product that it made and used in a failed kidney operation. This is in a preliminary ruling on questions referred for interpretation by the Hojesteret (supreme..
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Dependency status
The dependency status of unrelated children has been recognised, in awarding compensation to a six-year-old girl as a dependent of her mother’s boyfriend, Stephen Fretwell, killed in road accident. In awarding wider damages against German..
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‘Right of silence’ in civil cases
Subject to specific statute preventing statements made by directors in disqualification proceedings being used in subsequent criminal action, nothing in general law or the fair trial requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights stood in..
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Tribunal must not substitute own risk assessment
Where an employer’s reason for less favourable treatment of a disabled employee was based on a properly conducted risk assessment, an employment tribunal could only consider whether the reason met statutory criteria. It was not entitled to..
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RSI causation
The claimant worked for the defendant for nine years and during that time suffered pain in shoulder, wrist and forearm without discernible pathology.
Her employer was found in breach of Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations...
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Timing of sex discrimination complaint
An employment tribunal had no jurisdiction to hear a complaint of sex bias at work brought after the termination of employment.
Rhys-Harper v Relaxion Group plc • court of appeal •
The Times • 12 June 2001 •
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Constructive dismissal
Resignation without notice after downgrading, following disciplinary proceedings, does not constitute dismissal within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act.The phrase ‘by dismissing him’ in section 4(2)(d) does not include..
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Complaint does not preclude other activities
The chief constable of a police force was entitled to hear a disciplinary case against a police officer although the disciplinee had initiated sex discrimination proceedings against the force, naming the chief constable as defendant.
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Vicarious liability for lack of support to police constable
A former policeman successfully claimed negligence against the Chief Constable in respect of serious injuries sustained when colleagues failed to respond to his radio calls for assistance when attempting to arrest a suspect.
The Chief Constable..
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Duty only where suicide risk known
Police and prison authorities owed no duty to prisoners in general to prevent suicide. Custodians were under a duty to assess whether a prisoner was at risk of suicide, but no duty of protection existed unless the custodians knew, or ought to have..
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Injury definition under Warsaw Convention
A 15-year-old unaccompanied girl who suffered clinical depression after an indecent assault by a fellow passenger on a KLM flight lost damages awarded in a lower court. It was held, on appeal, that an airline’s liability for ‘bodily..
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Escape from plane during emergency
Injury sustained during blockage of a plane’s escape chute during a bomb scare did not give rise to liability for a travel agent who sold a holiday package. The agent’s duty, while not one of strict liability, covers contractual..
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Cargo rejection
For a port authority to be entitled to reject a cargo, the cargo processor or manufacturer must have gone as far as creating a risk to public health. This is in relation to the rejection of a cargo of shrimps.
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Damages for reinstatement of working chattel
The defendants admitted destruction of a quayside crane when they lost control of their vessel. Damages of £774,990 (plus £273,816 interest) were awarded by reference to the price for which the crane could have been sold had it not been..
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BSE, CJD and F&M
Deaths from vCJD in the UK exceeded 100
as of 1 June. During the first five months of this year 17 new confirmed or suspected cases of vCJD have come to light. At this rate the 2001 total will top the 28 of last year.
SEAC (the Spongiform..
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Milk warning
Following further investigations (see LRI
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These in turn would be..
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Regulators to review Ford tyre recall
As Congressional hearings commence in the US, the official death toll reaches 203 and reported tread separations of Firestone tyres fitted to Explorers exceeds 2,100, countermoves and cross-allegations proliferate.
Firestone has responded to the..
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Awards and settlements
Sex offenders’ counselling by prison officers
led to ‘catastrophic psychological consequences’. Geoffrey Mindell and Barry Bigby had only one week of training before being deployed to the Sex Offender Treatment Programme at..
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Israeli wedding hall collapse
The collapse of the Jerusalem Versailles banqueting hall, in which 23 wedding guests were killed and over 300 wounded on 25 May 2001, has led to the arrest of eight people associated with its construction and use. It is also likely to lead to..
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Tennis shoes hurt feet
Top-ranking tennis play Martina Hingis is seeking US$40mn from her former sponsor Italian sportswear company Sergio Tacchini, with which she had signed a US$5.6mn contract.
She claims the shoes provided injured her feet and forced her to withdraw..
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Garda claims
More than 1,500 claims from members of the Irish police force (Garda) have been lodged over the last year, estimated as worth an average of I£30,000 each (total I£50mn). The majority cite injuries sustained during police duties though..
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