Illustrative image of two Cane Corsos, undated. Agatino Zuccaro, 55, was mauled to death by three Cane Corsos in 2018. (Newsflash)

Animals / Europe / General News

Owner Of Ferocious Dogs That Tore Deliveryman Apart Jailed And Ordered To Pay EUR 2.7 Million In Compo

A man whose guard dogs savaged a deliveryman to death in a horrific attack has been jailed for nine months and ordered to pay EUR 2.7 million compensation to the victim's family. Agatino Zuccaro, 55, was delivering a package to a guest at the Tenuta Walter hotel, on the outskirts…

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October 10, 2022

Claims Committee Chairman Sir Franklin Berman takes the lectern – a view to the audience. Reception in honor of the Claims Committee held at the Austrian Parliament on 4 April 2017. (Parlamentsdirektion, Johannes Zinner/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / History

USD 215 Million Compo Fund For Hitlers Victims Closed

A programme that handed out USD 215 million in compensation to victims of Nazi plunder in World War II has closed in Austria, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Trustees of the General Compensation Fund dissolved the organisation on Tuesday, 26th April, saying it has "fulfilled" its mission. The fund was…

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May 12, 2022

Piazza dei Tribunali where the Supreme Court is located in Rome, Italy. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / Legal

Italian Supreme Court Orders Compensation For Neighbours Over Noisy Toilet

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that neighbours who were disturbed by a noisy toilet for years must now be compensated by the lavatory's owner. The row over the noisy WC took place in La Spezia, which is a city located in the Liguria region of north-western Italy. The toilet…

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January 27, 2022

Costa Concordia, the ship involved in a accident on the Island of Giglio, Italy, on 13th January 2012, the Court of Genoa granted Ernesto Carusotti, one of the EUR 77 thousand in compensation, in December, 2021. (Newsflash)

Accidents / Europe / General News

Survivor Of Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Disaster Receives GBP 80K In Compo

A survivor of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012 has received nearly GBP 80,000 in compensation for ‘post-shipwreck stress’. The Costa Concordia cruise ship struck an underwater rock, capsized, and sank off Giglio Island near the coast of Tuscany on 13th January 2012. The Court of Genoa has…

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January 12, 2022

Ever Given's ship returns to Egypt's Suez Canal for the first time since the blocking in March 2021.

General News / Middle East

Ever Given Container Ship That Blocked Suez Canal Returns For Second Attempt

The massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal back in March is set to attempt a second crossing after compensation to the tune of USD 540 million was reportedly agreed. The MV Ever Given vessel, registered in Panama and measuring 400 metres (1,312 feet), brought a significant part of…

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August 30, 2021

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Europe / General News / Women's Rights

Female Hunter Awarded Compensation For Hate Comments

A young female hunter in Germany has been awarded compensation after an image of her with a dead fox she killed received insults from social media users. The hunter from northern Germany, Sinah Marie, will receive thousands of Euros in compensation after a hunting association helped her take those who…

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October 9, 2020

Webcam footage from 11.03 at 11am showing the service still in full swing at the Ischgl Idalp

Europe / General News / Health

Ischgl Lawyer For 1000 COVID Victims Files First Demand

Vienna lawyer Dr Peter Kolba has presented a formal demand for compensation as the first step to gain damages for around 1,000 holidaymakers skiing in Tyrol in February and March this year who were infected with COVID-19. In a statement, the consumer protection association Verbraucherschutzverein (VSV), which is heading up…

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July 6, 2020

Yulia Yasyulevich (Saraynikova)

General News / Health / Russia

COVID Nurses Autopsy Changed To Avoid Paying Compo

This daughter of a Russian nurse who died of COVID-19 while battling the virus on the frontlines has claimed that the authorities changed her cause of death to pneumonia on her death certificate to avoid paying out 11,000 GBP in compensation. Yulia Yasiulevich, who worked as a nurse at the…

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May 10, 2020

David Serrano during trial

Crime / Europe / General News

Borehole Land Owner Where Toddler Died To Pay Almost 1M

The owner of the land where Spanish toddler Julen fell into a borehole leading to his death has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay over 700,000 GBP in compensation. Landowner David Serrano was given a suspended sentence of one year in prison and ordered to…

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January 26, 2020

Business / Europe / General News

Boy Plane Passenger Burned By Hot Coffee Gets 34K Compo

A nine-year-old boy who was scolded on the face and shoulders by hot coffee during a flight from Cairo to Vienna has been given 40,000 EUR compensation. The accident happened on an Egyptian airline which was not named but has its headquarters in London and which agreed to the settlement…

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January 8, 2020