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Breast surgeon’s victims denied compensation
The Mail on Sunday reports that hundreds of victims of breast surgeon Ian Paterson have been forced to take legal action against private hospitals which are refusing to compensate them. Spire Healthcare is understood to have told Paterson’s victims it is not responsible for the botched breast ...
Holiday sickness case thrown out
A judge has thrown out the case of a holiday maker who claimed that a four-star hotel’s poor hygiene and undercooked meat gave her food poisoning. Judge Nadeem Khan said that the holidaymaker’s evidence was “neither plausible or credible” and ruled that the claim was “fundament...
Thomas Cook wins fake sickness case
Travel company Thomas Cook says it has won a legal victory against a fake holiday sickness claim and plans to challenge other such claims in court. It comes after a family tried to win up to £10,000 in damages for food poisoning on a trip to the Canary Islands. A judge at Liverpool County Court [&h...
NHS negligence payouts top £1bn
The NHS paid out a record £1.7bn in damages for medical negligence last year, with doctors’ representatives warning of an urgent need to cap costs. The figures from NHS Resolution show almost £700,000 was spent on lawyers. Peter Walsh, chief executive of charity Action against Medical Accidents,...
Britons could be banned from all-inclusive holidays
Holidaymakers could be banned from all-inclusive breaks unless they stop making bogus claims for food poisoning, say tour operators. The Association of British Travel Agents is urging the ministry of justice “to close a loophole in legislation that was introduced to help stop the surge in frau...
UK businesses breaking ‘basic’ health and safety laws
Almost two thirds of UK businesses are failing to meet basic health and safety laws and are putting their employees in danger, according to new research. http://hrnews.co.uk/uk-businesses-breaking-basic-health-safety-laws/...
Hotel sues over fake sickness claim
A British couple accused of making a bogus holiday sickness compensation claim are facing a £170,000 counter-claim by the hotel in question. The couple are alleged to have fabricated a £10,000 claim against the five-star hotel in Crete after saying the resort’s food and drink made them il...
‘Crash-for-cash’ claims rejected
Insurers are scaling up the number of claims declined for suspected fraud, raising the prospect of an end to “crash-for-cash” claims. Aviva said it had declined 9.5% more fraudulent claims in 2016 than the previous year, due to increases in fraud detection across motor injury, household ...
Waiting times at A&E ruling
Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 151 A majority of the Court of Appeal (McCombe LJ dissenting) concluded that there was no general duty for receptionists at Accident & Emergency units to keep patients informed about likely waiting times. The appellant had suffered a he...