Stan Lee Media Inc. (SLMI) has reportedly filed a lawsuit over the rights to the character of Conan the Barbarian, as portrayed in the recent released film by Paradox Entertainment. SLMI, the company set up by iconic comic book creator Stan Lee but now operating independently of him, is currently in the process of rebuilding …
The analytics firm comScore is facing a new lawsuit filed by a law firm in Chicago which alleges that the company used “sinister and shocking” methods to collect its data. The class-action lawsuit, filed by Edelson McGuire on behalf of at least two plaintiffs, accuses comScore of violating the following US laws: • Stored Communications …
On 1st October 2011 a team from John Heath Insurance will be attempting to walk the entire length of the Sandstone Trail in Cheshire. This is a 34 mile stretch of hills in the Cheshire countryside from Frodsham to Whitchurch. We are raising money for The Wingate Centre, a local charity suppoting people with disabilities. …
A prominent conservation charity is facing charges and fines from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a gardener was killed when a tree fell on his van. The Woodland Trust is being accused of health and safety failings after gardener Alex McDonald, 25, died when a large tree fell and crashed through the windscreen …
Atos Healthcare, the company which assesses which patients are entitled to employment support allowance on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is accusing websites and forums which publish patient complaints about its assessment process of libel. Atos has issued legal threats against websites and forums which criticise the company’s Logic Integrated Medical …
The electronics giant Apple is reportedly looking to file a new patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola over its tablet computer design, fresh from a court victory in Germany against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. After claiming that the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is an imitation of the iPad, Apple recently succeeded in gaining …
A recycling firm has been prosecuted and fined after an employee was crushed between two skips at one of its centres in the Scottish town of Ayr in Ayrshire. The incident occurred when 46-year-old employee Steven Graham was working between two skips and an 18-tonne shovel loader hit one of them. This caused Graham to …
A new ruling by a federal court judge has denied Harley Davidson’s motion to dismiss overheating claims by Harley bikers, meaning that the class action product liability lawsuit against the biking firm can now go ahead. The complaint, filed by four bikers in the US, alleges that certain Harley Davidson motorcycles were defectively designed and …
Mortgage broker John Bagguley, a founder of the Provincial Finance Company, is reportedly set to file a libel lawsuit against a former client after he was accused of mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). Banks and other lenders have been swamped with PPI mis-selling claims in the last year, as soon as the UK courts ruled …
An engineering firm based in the Lancashire town of Burnley has been prosecuted and fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a contractor fell from the roof of its factory. Lupton & Place was fined £6,000 over the incident, in which a 67-year-old contractor fell through a roof panel. He was lucky enough …
