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Liability Risk and Insurance

Faulty filing cabinet causes injury

An office worker has been awarded £16,400 compensation in an out-of-court settlement after she fell and badly injured herself due to a faulty filing cabinet at work. The woman was a training supervisor at the Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) but has been unable to return to work following the accident in July 2001.

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