20 December 2006

Refuse worker wins payout

Refuse worker wins payout A former refuse collection worker at Lichfield DC has been awarded £3.75m after an accident left him severely disabled. Birmingham High Court heard that Richard Taylor, 21, of Cannock, was in a refuse lorry which overturned last year. A spokesman for Lichfield DC said the authority ‘would like to express its deep regret and sympathy to Mr Taylor for the dreadful injuries that he sustained’.

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