The Thessaloniki Administrative Court of Appeals ruled in favour of the families of two helicopter pilots of the Hellenic Army who died when their UH-1H (Huey) type military helicopter crashed during night training operation on February 2006 in Northern Greece. The pilots had found themselves trapped in thick fog and their helicopter struck wire cables […]

Thirteen years after his retirement in 1996, a 65 year old carpenter was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma. He had been working for 35 consecutive years as a carpenter in one of the major Greek shipyards, Skaramanga, being involved in numerous ship-building and ship-reconstruction and repair projects. Less than a year from the date of the […]

The 1st Division of the State Council by means of decision no. 3041/2014 ruled that the municipality of Keratsini – Drapetsona should pay the sum of €200.000 as moral damages for the pain and suffering of a municipality worker who, in the course of his employment, contracted asbestosis (and subsequently died).  The municipal employee was […]