Owners of small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) often find themselves doing everything from hiring staff to drawing up supplier contracts, but taking on all these responsibilities without advice can leave an SME owner open to legal action.

A window manufacturer has been fined £100,000 after a teenage worker had two fingers severed by a cross-cutting saw.

Brendan Husband-Whiting, senior management liability account underwriter at Allianz, explores the risks facing directors and officers in 2025 and explains why the time is right to take out insurance cover. After the challenges of high interest rates, double-digit inflation and a pandemic, the UK’s economy is beginning to show signs of improvement. But, while there […]

A company has been fined £133,000 after a man was left seriously injured when he fell through a barn roof in Southampton.

A father-of-three was left paralysed from the chest down after falling through a ceiling at a house renovation in Derbyshire.