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The article focuses on learning from corporate manslaughter cases concerning nursery operator PS & JE Ward Ltd. and mining company MNS Mining Ltd. under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. It mentions that PS & JE Ward Ltd. was convicted under the back-up Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in April 2014 and fined 50,000 pounds. It states that MNS Mining's mine manager have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter for the death of four miners in Wales.

The article reports on criminal negligence and involuntary manslaughter charges issued by Israeli authorities against five people and Itzuv Bama staging company in connection with the collapse of a stage structure on April 18, 2012 in Jerusalem, which killed an Israel Defense Forces officer and injured seven other military personnel.

The article focuses on the $1.3 million-in-fines that will be paid by Carnival Cruise Lines' brand Costa Crociere to end possible criminal negligence action brought by Italian prosecutors over the 2012 Costa Concordia shipwreck.

The article focuses on the negligent homicide trial of James Lomma regarding the deaths of two construction workers due to the collapse of a Kodiak tower crane owned by Lomma's construction equipment rental firm at a building site in Manhattan, New York, in 2008. Lomma's attorneys are scheduled to present several forensic engineers in April 2012 to testify that the structural failure of the crane was not a result of negligence.

The article looks at two criminal trials of construction industry executives. The former chief executive officer of the construction firm Louis Berger Group Derish Wolff was granted a continuance at his November 2011 arraignment on federal fraud charges regarding alleged overinflation of costs of federal construction contracts. The negligent homicide and manslaughter trial of New York Crane company executive James F. Lomma regarding a 2008 crane collapse was adjourned until February 2012.

Practice nurses have expressed alarm at the RCN's plans to change its indemnity insurance scheme so that GPs pick up the cost of clinical negligence claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to health and safety in Great Britain which include an imprisoned builder for illegal gas repairs and, a severed worker in the arm due to a faulty machine, and the prosecution of a property maintenance firm due to failure of offering edge protection.

The article reports on a property developer in Wales, Michael Murton, who has been handed with multiple suspended prison sentenced for failure of identifying the presence of asbestos at a construction site before proceeding to work.

The article announces that the Piperdam Gold and Leisure Resort, an exclusive leisure resort in Dundee, Scotland has been fined with 120,000 pounds for inadequate controls preventing Legionnaires' Disease over the death of one of its resort guest, Edward Warnes.

The article offers news briefs related to industrial health and safety cases in Great Britain in 2011 including a company's failure to monitor the work for its contractors, an asbestos exposure case against a roofing firm, and a company which allowed the use of flammable chemicals in open fire.

The article reports that Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd. has been fined with 385,000 pounds fine for breaching health and safety regulations. The company was convicted under the new Corporate Manslaughter law and it is believed that it would act as a clear warning to the construction industry. The firm was found guilty of causing the death of junior geotechnical engineer Alexander Wright on September 5, 2008.

The article reports that Mannion & Gray Co. has succeeded in securing a $0 judgment for its client from a $132 million lawsuit. The firm was defending railcar repair company Rescar Inc. of Illinois against a claim of negligence after a worker, Patrick McCarthy, sustained a massive brain injury that left him in a persistent vegetative state. However, the jury determined Rescar was not at fault for the injury.

The article discusses the possibility for accounting firm KPMG to face negligence litigation due to its audits of New Century Financial and for its efforts to help the mortgage company devise strategies to hide the problems that led to the lender's collapse in April 2008. A report from Michael Missal, an examiner for the bankruptcy court, claims that KPMG failed to exercise due care in planning and carrying out its audits and reviews for New Century Financial. Missal also raised criticisms on some of the accounting advice given by KPMG to New Century.

The article assesses the implications of the new Corporate Manslaughter & Corporate Homicide Act 2007 to engineering firms in Great Britain. The new Act will abolish the common law offence and replace it with a statutory offence, creating a new frame-work for finding an organisation guilty of corporate manslaughter. For engineering firms the main concern will be the second part of the definition of senior management, catching people lower down the management chain than those regarded as the directing mind under the outgoing law.

The article reports on the civil lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly against 15 firms for negligence in management, design, construction and oversight Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston in 2006. The suit was triggered by tunnel plenum collapse that killed a motorist on July 10, 2006. The lawsuit is under a six-year-statute of limitations for defective construction.

The article focuses on the results of a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of two workers on a Shell North Sea platform on September 11, 2003. According to the sheriff's inquiry, the deaths could have been prevented if a more suitable repair had been applied to a leaking pipe. Oil industry's labor unions have called for corporate manslaughter law to punish companies for workplace deaths caused by negligence.

The article focuses on the Idaho Supreme Court's ruling on the negligence claim filed by parents Frank and Leslie O'Guin. The Supreme Court remands that the negligence case be heard. O'Guin children, Shaun and Alex, are both killed when a section of the pit wall at a landfill collapsed and crushed them. According to the parents of the victim, the county has breached its duty to control access to the site. The lawsuit has been dismissed by the lower court. But the Supreme Court vacates the ruling, arguing that the county violated the state landfill rules governing access control.

Cites a lawsuit filed by an employee in Texas who was sexually assaulted and robbed during regular business hours claiming negligence on the part of her employer. Contention of the complainant; Argument of the defendant; Opinion of the court.

Revolving doors throughout Japan have stopped turning since a six-year-old boy was crushed on March 26. Building owners have shut automated and manual doors, waiting for a new government panel to produce safety recommendations. Tokyo's police department is mulling charges of criminal negligence against the building owner and the door manufacturer. The incident occurred when the boy and his mother were entering the 54-story Mori Tower, the centerpiece of the Roppongi Hills redevelopment project.

Focuses on the case against Japan Airlines pilot Koichi Takamoto, who was charged with criminal negligence in connection with the death of flight attendant Atsuko Taniguchi. Stand of the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations on Takamoto's case; Concerns about the use of accident-investigation reports; Proposal of the International Civil Aviation Organization member nations to develop a strategy that would allow countries to adopt laws that protect the sources and free flow of safety information.

Reports on the victory of law firm Withy King in the decision of a Westminster Coroner's Court on a clinical negligence lawsuit against two hospital trusts in Great Britain.

Reveals that law firms specializing in property work are most likely to find themselves on the wrong end of a professional negligence claim, according to a study by the insurance broker, Alexander Forbes Limited. Reasons for negligence claims; Factor that will encourage firms to improve risk management and consequently benefit from lower premiums.

Reports that authorities in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia have fined Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. $40,000 after pleading guilty to three counts of negligence resulting in the death of machine operator Jeffrey Bennett. Investigations concerning an emergency cutout switch; Goodyear's reaction to the ruling.

Reports that an arbitrator has decided the `Hawaii Tribune-Herald' was in the right for firing a circulation driver for gross negligence. Charges against the driver; hawaii Newspaper Guild's filing of a grievance on the driver's behalf.

States that it was held in the Court of Federal Claims, that an employer is liable for the negligence penalty under Sec. 6662 for failure to withhold taxes on employee wages, in Abbey Carpet, 9/26/97. Findings of the court; Information on the penalty of Sec. 6662.