Firms fined for 11,000 volt death
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Two companies working on an industrial estate where a teenager was electrocuted are fined Â£31,000.
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HOME furnishings firm Courts yesterday issued a profits warning after Hurricane Ivan delivered a blow to its trading. The London-based company, which has 91 stores in the Caribbean, said the storm forced the
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Water firm United Utilities is given a Â£8.5m fine from water regulator Ofwat for breaching trading rules.
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By Thomas J. Morgan; Journal Staff Writer  The company agrees to pay more than $100,000 in penalties and contributions.
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Inquests are due to begin on Tuesday into the deaths of 11 elderly and psychiatric patients at a hospital.
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Insurance firm Norwich Union is fined Â£1.26m for exposing some of its customers to identity fraud.
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By Cliff Hightower, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 2--DAYTON, Tenn. -- A chemical plant that was the site of an August  blast that killed a worker may face a fine of $91,000 after state officials  said they found 13 serious violations during an investigation.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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By Jonathan D. Epstein  HSBC Bank USA agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $1 million in fines and reimbursement to settle a state lawsuit over a toxic chemical cleanup in Orange County in a case brought under the federal Superfund Act.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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The EU imposes a record 992m euro fine on four lift and escalator firms it found operated a price-fixing cartel.
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UK businesses lost more than Â£40bn last year, about Â£100m a day, as a result of economic crime, a report finds.
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Business & money: Â· Firm teaching energy assessors sacks 100Â· Government could be sued for lost earnings
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US life insurer Prudential Financial has been ordered to pay a 600 million dollar fine by the government after some of its brokers engaged in fraudulent trading of mutual fund shares, prosecutors said.
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Individual penalties for the four Infineon executives who pled guilty in a price-fixing scheme follow a record $160 million fine that Infineon agreed to pay in mid-September stemming from the same investigation.
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They can run, and they can hide US network operators who can't locate their customers in the case of an emergency are facing fines of over $2m, having already been given 18-months grace to comply.â¦
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Prosecutors reached a $458 million settlement with contractors over tunnel defects that caused a fatal 2006 accident Â but a small contractor that isn't involved in the agreement says it unfairly spares the most responsible party from criminal charges.