Homeowner Seeks £100million Compensation for Subsidence

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Homeowner Seeks £100million Compensation for Subsidence from Mining Works [27th Feb 2012]

The owners of one of the UK's largest stately homes are asking for £100 million in compensation as they say the house is being destroyed by mining subsidence. Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade 1 listed home near Rotherham with 365 rooms and is owned by the Newbold family. They paid just £1.5 million for the property in 1999. Despite the relatively small price they paid, the family say that the house needs a conservation plan which will cost £200 million to save it for future generations. They are asking for the compensation from the Coal Authority who allowed mining works to be carried out in the area until around 30 years ago. The authority say that damage notices which were issued in 2007 and 2009 were invalid because they were issued under the name of just one member of the family and not all of the owners. A judge has disagreed and the case will be able to go ahead.

Former child singing star Charlotte Church has accepted a £600,000 compensation package and a public apology from The News of The World publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN). Half of this money will go to her lawyers. The money was in return for the damage caused by 33 stories which were written about her which could only have come from the hacking of her phone messages and that of her family. Church said she was sickened and disgusted by what had happened to her and that the money could not mend the damage which was done to her and her parents. She said she would use the money to further protect herself and her children from further media intrusion. Church made a statement outside the court where she stated that she took action against the paper because she wanted to find out the extent of the hacking and because her parents had been targeted. She also felt that the paper felt little remorse as they had forced her mother to relive the distress she had felt during the hearing.

Victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 will have to wait longer to hear if they will receive compensation as the case has been delayed for another week. The trial is expected to start on March 5 which is a week late. The judge has said that BP is trying to come to an out of court settlement which will prevent the case needing to go ahead. Sheryl Revette whose son was one of the 11 killed on the oil rig which exploded has said that she simply wants an apology from BP which she is yet to receive. She says she has heard nothing at all from them. Many families feel that the dead men were overshadowed by the oil spill. The trial is expected to last one year and will have three phases. The first will concentrate on the causes of the blowout and to decide to what extent BP and Deepwater Horizon were at fault. It is expected that even if a settlement is reached it could take several months for compensation payments to be made.

It has been revealed by the NHS Litigation Authority that Queen Alexandra Hospital which is run by the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust has paid out for 332 clinical negligence claims in the last five years. 45 cases were for less the £5,000, 97 were up to £99,999 and 21 were up to £600,000. There have also been cases which have resulted in compensation payments in the millions. Many of these were due to birthing problems which resulted in permanent brain damage for babies. John White from Blake Lapthron, a medical negligence specialist has said that the payments can be so large because often people require lifetime care and this care is rising in cost. A spokesperson from the trust has commented that they fully investigate any claim made against them and that they pay an insurance premium to cover any compensation payments. This is the limit of their exposure to the cost.

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