compensation

I put some links into the Andrew Malkinson thread because some aspects of the two cases are similar. However, this case deserves its own thread IMO. Victor Nealon was convicted of a 1996 attempted rape in Reddich in 1997 and was given a discretionary life sentence. Among the problems in this...

One year after the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, with unemployment soaring while folks on main street lucky enough to still have jobs take pay cuts, Wall Street is poised to set a new record for compensation, exceeding the previous high in 2007. Yep. Everything is great...

Ken Feinberg was the administrator of the US$7 billion 9/11 compensation fund. He was in Australia recently and was interviewed on the Law Report on ABC radio. I hadn't heard this side of things before and found it very interesting, especially how they decided on the amount of compensation and...

Reading a recent new post prompted me to seek members' views on a question that I've harboured for some time: Why is it that when a large number of people are maimed or killed in an accident the applicable Government(s) and or the general public usually rally round and organize/provide...

Catch the latest in legal slime in "Abducted by aliens? Lawyer for hire", a news item from Reuters. German lawyer Jens Lorek actually has the gall (and the total lack of ethics) to take disturbed people's money so he can, without exception, fail to win compensation from the government for their...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4163705.stm Convicted of murdering her children, imprisoned for 18 mths. Conviction quashed because the key prosecution witness was "discredited". Not entitled to any compensation for that period because the witness, while appearing for the (state)...

Just read somewhere here where an insurance company made it easier to seek "alternative" treatments compared to some conventional medicine. Relevant analysis here suggests chiropractic "treatment" is more expensive than conventional. CA chiro limitations