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Insurers remain reluctant to pay business...
Posted in Dispute Resolution on 3rd Mar 2021
On 28 February 2021 the Sunday Times reported that FTSE 250 insurer Hiscox offered a struggling East London café owner $13.00 in settlement of its business interruption claim.
The London café claimed for more than 3 months’ loss, comprising of $1,600 a month in rent and $2,500 a month in stock, after it faced closure due to the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The café had said it had been “battling bankruptcy” due to closure, like many other businesses in the UK today.
It was reported by sources close to the FTSE insurer that only...
Sepsis: Fatal Dangers of Delayed Diagnosis
Posted in Medical Negligence on 24th Jan 2020
It moves quickly and time is of the essence.
It is therefore shocking that some hospitals are still slow to identify symptoms and treat them accordingly, with a recent article from the BBC highlighting the sepsis issues at large.
This article highlights alarming statistics from a recent University of Washington study, stating “one in five deaths around the world is caused by sepsis” with an estimated 11 million fatalities a year.
This is more than those killed by cancer.
Rates in the UK are higher than that of neighbouring countries (including...
Healthy New Year’s Resolutions for the NHS
Posted in Medical Negligence on 7th Jan 2020
Healthy New Year’s Resolutions for the NHS
Now we have entered the New Year, many businesses tend to take stock from the previous year and review their New Year’s Resolutions.
They are asking themselves ‘what do we want to achieve in 2020?’, ‘what are our targets and challenges this year?’ and ‘how did we do last year?’
Asking these questions is a fantastic step in the right direction, especially for the NHS, however achieving these can prove far more challenging.
Recent statistics show that NHS has not managed to meet their own targets in relation...
Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace
Posted in Employment Law on 3rd Jan 2020
The terms ‘bullying’ and ‘harassment’ are often used interchangeably when discussing unwanted behaviour in the workplace, but they are not the same thing.
Harassment
Harassment is specifically defined in the Equality Act 2010 and occurs when a person engages in unwanted conduct towards another person that has the purpose or effect of violating the second person’s dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for the second person.
Crucially, in order for the unwanted conduct to be harassment, it must...
