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Posted by Garry Booth on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
The High Court has decided that Corby Borough Council was negligent in its clean-up of a former steel works in the town, which may have led to birth defects in 16 children. Deformities to hands and feet were the result of mothers being exposed to a ‘soup of toxic materials’ between 1985 and 1999, the [...]
Tags: Liability, Litigation, Pollution
Posted by Garry Booth on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
A new report from Swiss Re, ‘The Globalisation of Collective Redress: Consequences for the Insurance Industry’, warns of the global spread of collective or class actions, pointing up the risks and the opportunities that exist for insurers.
Research published recently by Lloyd’s and the RAND Institute for Civil Justice Europe (Litigation and business: transatlantic trends, pdf [...]
Tags: Litigation, Report
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