Many owners and managers of horticultural businesses treat their workers' compensation policies like other types of insurance: it’s often out of sight and out of mind. However, also like most coverage plans, workers' compensation is an important consideration for any company and demands more attention than it may receive. Specific laws and regulations vary by [...]
A business and social services agency are facing legal action after a boy was seriously injured while paying on an inflatable pirate ship at a Halloween party last year. According to a statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court in Prince George, the boy, whose age was not provided, was "bounced into the air [...]
Steve De Castro was working on the rebooted TV series Shooter when he was involved in the accident, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday (28Oct16) in Los Angeles. He alleges Sizemore was drunk when he hit him with a vehicle on 6 July (16), and said in legal documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter [...]
Tributes have been flooding in from the equestrian community following the tragic death of Claire Lowe (Millhouse) who sadly died yesterday following a fall out hunting. Lowe was the owner and operator of Mill House Equestrian Centre in Saintfield, Co Down and was out hunting in the New Line area of Ballygowan with the [...]
According to an airbag failure lawsuit Ebron filed earlier this month, the North Carolina plaintiff alleges the airbag in his 2014 Chevrolet Silverado deployed without a collision initially taking place. The force of the airbag is alleged to have resulted in several broken bones to his face – and the force rendered him unconscious. His [...]
A MAN who claims to have suffered brain damage after being injured while playing on a farm as a child has gone to court seeking £950,000 compensation. Craig Anderson, 21, says that farmers John and Antoinette Imrie did not do enough to prevent him from injuring himself when he was eight years old. The Court [...]
A woman who contracted arthritis after being bitten by a mosquito while training hairdressers in the outback won a workers compensation claim against TAFE SA. Jennifer Roberts was put in a metal hut where temperatures exceeded 53 degrees Celsius with no air conditioner when TAFE SA transferred her to Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta, in central north [...]
The actress posted a photo of her bandaged ring finger on her Snapchat account on Sunday (02Oct16), revealing it had almost been severed by an anchor. She wrote: "I almost lost my finger from the anchor. Well, I lost half my finger. Thank goodness we found the piece of my finger. i just had surgery [...]
Dutch authorities are taking the US makers of Pokemon Go to court, after the company failed to meet pleas to stop hordes of fans flocking to protected beaches. Since the game was launched in The Netherlands, thousands of fans have been crowding the vast, windswept beaches of Kijkduin where hundreds of the game's most popular [...]
Heartbreaking court documents have been revealed in Jim Carrey's suicidal girlfriend's wrongful death case. The shock papers, filed to Los Angeles Superior Court by Irish Catriona White's ex husband Mark Butler, reveal a tormented side to the Irish make-up artist, who committed suicide on September 28, 2015. Butler is suing Carrey over his estranged wife's [...]