Almost two weeks after the deadly fire broke out on a car deck of ferry NORMAN ATLANTIC, high temperatures and thick smoke still prevent investigators from entering the lower decks of the vessel. Eleven passengers have been confirmed dead, whilst two Albanian sailors were killed during the towing operations of the vessel to the Italian […]

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 […]