The collision of fact and fiction. http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/ Osama Bin Laden has been found in a camp just outside of Kabul by a team of six New York lawyers. Bin Laden is the founder of the organization Al-Qaeda which was blamed by the American Government for the September 11th attacks on US buildings in 2001. After seven years of waiting for US military forces to locate Bin Lad... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/osama-bin-laden-found-1020080522.htm 22 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT The general figures pushed out by the Labour government inform us that stabbings and other violent crimes are down since they came into power in 1997. But opposition leaders have recently lashed out after Home Office figures pointed to an actual 25% rise in stabbings in the same time period. David Cameron, sporting a new ton... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/tony-blair-compensation-1020080501.htm 01 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT Despite the outrage caused by the Archbishop's comments regarding the integration of Sharia Law in the UK, no extra security was provided for the religious leader. A fault that has sparked investigation into police handling of the matter. Lord Harken, who will be leading the inquiry, spoke at a press conference: "The ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/archbishop-of-canterbury-killed-1020080415.htm 15 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT It will start with the Trident missile systems and end with the cleaning staff at the MOD, but within the next five years every part of the UK defence network will be dismantled in favour of more modern defence weapons - lawyers. A high ranking naval officer who wishes to remain anonymous told us that it was the milita... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/less-missiles-more-lawyers-1020080203.htm 03 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT In a daring move to avoid further lawsuits, leaders in the science community have petitioned to be classed as a religion. After more than three years of litigation over their climate change theories the move has been welcomed by scientists who are tired of spending their days in court: "This isn't what I signed up for... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/rest-of-science-joins-scientology-1020080115.htm 15 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Until now, in the UK, everyone has been happy with the concept that you have to be injured first before you can obtain compensation. But with the asteroid Apophis hurtling toward earth people are starting to feel that the law needs an overhaul. We spoke to one family man who wishes to remain anonymous who said: "Thi... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/asteriod-compensation-claims-1020071201.htm 01 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Though not surprised by the ruling, lawyers for the claimant announced they, and their client, were shocked that their secondary aim was not recognised by lawmakers: "Nestle marketing their KitKat product as a light, tasty snack is simply unacceptable when other snack items like crisps are vilified by the media. We ex... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/kitkat-lawsuit-fails-1020071121.htm 21 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT The fashion world is still quaking in it's fluffy boots after last week's test case against a clothes home shopping catalogue was granted a continuance to obtain more evidence. The claimant, who cannot be named for fears of reprisal from fashion models, has to be measured by the defence team's own group of doctors to prove that the... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/discrimination-law-for-shoppers-1020070814.htm 14 Aug 2007 08:00:00 GMT Unhappy with the 40% tax rate imposed on him as a sole proprietor, David Scanlon of Peterhead, Scotland decided to take advantage of the lax compensation regulations to join the many people in the UK living off lump sums provided tax free through lawsuits against their employers. In an interview he relayed: "It's comp... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/tax-evasion-tips-1020070813.htm 13 Aug 2007 08:00:00 GMT With the introduction of the Suicide Act 1961, which de-criminalized the act of suicide, laws regarding assisting someone's in their own suicide were clarified: "A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction on indictmen... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/cigarette-suicide-1020070705.htm 05 Jul 2007 08:00:00 GMT Despite the numerous documentaries and fictional films about the tobacco industry, often portraying them as less than forthcoming when it comes to the truth, many still whole heartedly believe the studies and data produced by tobacco firms in regards to the dangers of smoking. Even now with the most alarming of revelations that smo... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/smoking-and-cancer-not-an-issue-1020070601.htm 01 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT Mark Langford, known for his notorious role as the founder of The Accident Group, has died in a car accident whilst hiding from British authorities in Spain. His former company collapsed in 2003 when 2,500 staff were famously sacked by text message as he and his wife ran off to Spain with the last of the cash. Even with ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/the-accident-group-director-dies-1020070529.htm 29 May 2007 08:00:00 GMT In a landmark case the owner of a Lhasa Apso that bit a neighbour has won GBP32,000 in compensation ... from the person the dog bit! Strange though it may sound to you and I, the victim of the original bite was even more perplexed: "I can't believe it, I was awarded only GBP1,700 for the loss of feeling in my right index ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/attack-dog-owner-sues-victim-1020070321.htm 21 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT In light of the recent leaked documents by the Ministry of Defence there has been a public outcry regarding the billions wasted on defence. Though many are concerned with the global impact an admission of this magnitude will have, at home people seem more concerned with the money that has, essentially, been flushed down the silo. ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/trident-missile-public-compensation-1020070101.htm 01 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT The move by Walmart owner of the Asda chain to purchase the top eleven claims management companies and law firms in the UK has been called "genius" by their rivals Tesco and Morrisons. With each having to shell out millions in compensation every year for slips and trips in their supermarkets the novel idea was hit on by Walmart's... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/walmart-buys-compensation-law-firms-1020061201.htm 01 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT Tired of lawyers and company directors sucking all the milk from the compensation cash cow, the government is to introduce the 'Compensation Bill'. This bill will be sent to every claims management company that deals with personal injury compensation claims in the UK. Depending on how large the firm is and how many claims they hand... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/government-compensation-bill-1020061104.htm 04 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Although there was a suspicious lack of coverage by most media corporations, the class action lawsuit against 117 named scientists in the UK was followed intently by both sides of the argument. After the controversial ruling was made to dismiss the case, lawyers for the plaintiff announced: "Making up reports on clima... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/scientists-sued-over-climate-change-1020061021.htm 21 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT In the wake of the lawsuit by Steve Irwin's family against The Bloodhound Gang, alcohol and tobacco producers have piggybacked the tragic death of the beloved animal chasing icon in an awkward attempt to circumvent the numerous lawsuits against them in courts across the world. A spokesperson for the legal team behind the move had t... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/alcohol-tobacco-to-be-illegal-in-the-uk-1020061005.htm 05 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT In a move not seen since the days of Ozzy listener's suicides, the family of Steve Irwin, famous for his TV show crocodile hunter, are suing the record label of the "verbally obnoxious" rock band the Bloodhound Gang. They state that as Steve's own ratings fell he became obsessed with climbing back into the limelight. A close friend... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/steve-irwin-family-sue-bloodhound-gang-1020061001.htm 01 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT The case has been called 'disgusting', 'utterly baseless' and 'the downfall of justice' but no judge has been able to overturn the ruling that 43 children abused by Stan Wilminstot are ordered to pay GBP2,500 each in compensatory damages to their abuser. One mother told us: "On contacting the CICA to get compensation fo... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/paedophile-wins-compensation-1020060314.htm 14 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT Lawyers for Simon and Schuster, the original publishers of the Joseph Heller novel Catch 22, have filed simultaneous lawsuits in the 79 english speaking countries across the globe to try and stop the use of the phrase "Catch 22" in any form of media. "It was quite flattering to the both the author and those of us involv... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/catch-22-1020060221.htm 21 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT The landmark case of a wife who sued her soon-to-be-ex-husband for half a million pounds for the un-necessary loss of her virginity was not reported widely in the UK, but word has slowly spread and government officials are unsure just how to proceed as injured hymen cases start to trickle into the compensation claims arena. Current... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/virgin-compensation-claims-1020050415.htm 15 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT The former Home Secretary, David Blunkett, has been found guilty of defrauding 24 women and ordered to pay each GBP5,000 in compensation. In December 2004, just months after the highly publicised split from his three year affair with Kimberly Fortier, the heart broken Labour MP hit on a novel twist to the online dating boo... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/david-blunkett-dating-website-scandal-1020050214.htm 14 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT In light of the leaked document stating that Roland Emmerich, the writer and director of the film The Day After Tomorrow, had paid 11 researchers $300,000 each about GBP160,000 to make up reports about climate change that validated his movie several months before it's release, the industry watchdog has ordered him to pay $550millio... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/roland-emmerich-day-after-tomorrow-lawsuit-1020041219.htm 19 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT In an unprecedented move by the leader of any corporation, Jesus Christ address unknown has filed a lawsuit against the Catholic church for 'defamation of character'. In a press release the divine one's lawyer told reporters: "This case is really more about distinguishing between the acts of the company's employees ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/christ-in-court-1020040614.htm 14 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT The much publicised sacking of over 2,500 staff members via text message was the first indication to the public that The Accident Group was not all it was cracked up to be. Along with the thousands of victims who lost money in unpaid compensation claims, the tax payer is now being asked by the TUC to pay GBP8million in redundancy pay... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/news/claim-companies-get-compensation-1020040131.htm 31 Jan 2004 08:00:00 GMT I'm normally not shocked by stunts on TV because you generally know that celebs would not try them if they were not 99.9% safe and of course there are always fifty fire engines and ambulances just off camera. But did you see Jeremy Clarkson pull that Grease manoeuvre last week? He attached spikes to his car wheels and slammed them ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/top-gear-cartoon-10058.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT If a child swallows a button that falls off her doll and chokes for a few seconds, the parents will feel anger towards the manufacturor and expect some sort of compensation. If a teenager downs six alco-pops, steals a car and runs over a whole family, the taxpayer has to foot the bill?... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/santa-claus-christmas-cheer-cartoon-10042.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT This was one where the visual concept came to me before any message, and now it's done I can't pin down my own personal meaning. A commentary on how Justice is not really blind? How Justice looks after the dishonest more than the victims? Maybe about how Justice and money are now far too intertwined in our society? Then I settled o... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/lady-justice-cartoon-10041.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT I would like to have stuck a pharmaceutical sales rep in there somewhere but my wife was one and I like a quiet s wife s ... sorry, I meant life ... ; I'm a dead man! ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/nhs-compensation-cars-cartoon-10040.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT We were doing so well, becoming smarter and self-sufficient, the greatest predators on earth. Now we make a living falling over one inch high paving slabs and crying like a little girl?... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/evolution-cartoon-10026.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT For those who keep emailing saying about how women are second class citizens in Iraq so Justice would not be represented by a woman - it was supposed to represent that they we pulled down their our own standards of Justice that day, not Iraq's.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/iraq-war-saddam-hussain-cartoon-10025.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Only a complete moron would think that a regulatory body for claim companies would stop the epidemic of claim fever.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/supply-and-demand-cartoon-10004.htm 04 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT The never ending circle of compensation.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/paper-cut-irony-cartoon-10059.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT This one is funny at first glance ... then you give it a few seconds and realise that you've actually heard about that sort of thing taking place for real. A claims company actually injuring people so they can get them to claim is a stretch of the imagination and I hope it has never actually happened, but what direction will they g... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/compensation-claims-company-cartoon-10039.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT The media nicknamed claims companies as "ambulance chasers", a term coined in the US where injury lawyers do actually chase ambulances to ask the victims inside if they want to make a claim against anyone. The UK got far worse than that. At least the US lawyers could admit that what they were doing was unethical and demeaning, UK s... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/ambulance-chasers-cartoon-10038.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT In all honesty I came up with this before I found out that we have been paying out millions to people injured in Iraq. It was meant to be a joke, an assumption that countries were too afraid to attack each other now that compensation was rampant. People are even suing countries for things they did to their ancestors. I think we're ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/world-peace-cartoon-10037.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT If cartoon characters had modernised and starting suing each other my childhood favourites would never have made it for my kids to watch. Bye, bye Wiley Coyote. So long Elmer Fudd. Have a good retirement Sylvester. We'll miss you all.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/tom-and-jerry-lawsuit-cartoon-10036.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT I've always wondered how that went down. Do you think people in malpractice law lie when asked their occupation in hospitals? I would imagine that you don't want to tell the guy about to operate on you that you put 12 of his colleagues out of work that year or that he didn't get his bonus because you've pushed his insurance premium... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/medical-malpractice-lawyer-cartoon-10035.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT I was five years into this before my first child was born. Till that point I'd sympathised with whiplash victims and consoled those that had slipped on wet floors. After watching 14 hours of my wife in labour they can all go to hell, the bunch of wimps. Our priorities seem completely warped in this country, we reward people who don... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/maternity-giving-birth-cartoon-10034.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Acts of God are the final frontier in compensation claims. The movie The Man Who Sued God with Billy Connelly had good points, it does seem unfair that organisations profit from perpetuating the idea that God exists whilst insurance companies profit from putting the blame on someone that cannot be taken into court. Doesn't the chur... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/man-who-sued-god-cartoon-10032.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT I researched a wrote an article on the developing notion of a compensation culture and one comment stuck out to me. It was by Norwich Union's Chief Executive Patrick Snowball at a conference where he said people today were more "squeamish" and therefore expected compensation for things that our predecessors would never have conside... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/i-see-dead-people-cartoon-10031.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Most of the phrases being thrown around are nonsense. "If you've suffered a personal injury ..." what other type of injury is there? "... you can make a no win no fee claim ..." you're not getting any special treatment, the solicitor will generally make you take out legal insurance so they get paid no matter what the outcome ".... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/personal-injury-lawyer-cartoon-10030.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Our courts haven't sunk to the level of their US counterparts yet but the people of this country sure have. The slightest pin-prick and the first thought is "is it enough to win me some cash" rather than "how do I stop this happening to someone else". Justice is never done through compensation, it should be an accessory to justice ... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/i-pledge-allegiance-and-justice-for-all-cartoon-10029.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Allow me this one cheap crack!... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/duck-compensation-bill-cartoon-10028.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT I've seen this on every application for compensation whether it's whiplash with "now I'm scared to ever drive again!" to slipping in a supermarket with "now I can't look at a tin of canned peaches without crying!". No really, well except for that last one, our nation seems to be very fragile with "I'll never get over it" appearin... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/scarred-for-life-cartoon-10027.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT At the time I had this image in my head I thought it was an exaggerated visualisation of claims companies. Little was I to know that some firms would not just be returning zero cash to their injured clients but were actually putting them into debt! People with whiplash injuries ending up owing their solicitors thousands of pounds i... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/big-compensation-cheque-cartoon-10023.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT This cartoon was drawn up before the government displayed their actual compensation bill plans. I expected it to be a heavy handed approach that would infringe on the rights of actual victims and play into the hands of large corporations, protecting them from being sued for most things. I was wrong. The bill does nothing for anyone... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/compensation-bill-cartoon-cartoon-10019.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT If there's one area of claims that should be targeted but plainly isn't, it's criminal compensation. Rather than being from insurance companies this money comes from tax payers and is paid out to anyone that has been the victim of a violent crime. Common claims include bar fights where the victim lost, though obviously unable to wr... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/crime-pays-everyone-cartoon-10016.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Imagine if compensation claims for injuries had started with the beginnings of mankind ... would we be where we are today? Who would have tried to invent an aeroplane? Who would have developed bungee jumping? Who would have developed electricity? Who would even have invented paving slabs if suing people was common throughout our hi... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/evolution-of-lawyers-cartoon-10015.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Far from making any actual criticism of gender bias in the workplace or commentary about pressure to act like a man, I simply find this piece funny. It makes me smile every time I look at it.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/gender-discrimination-cartoon-10012.htm 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT Were all the King's Horses and all the King's Men unable to fix Humpty or were they just afraid that if they did anything wrong they would be sued? If you tell someone something is unfixable then you haven't been negligent. Best just to let people die at the roadside I think, it will save millions in costs to this country ...... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/humpty-dumpty-compensation-cartoon-10056.htm 23 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT No examples here in the UK yet thankfully. I was absolutely appalled to hear that the courts even entertained a lawsuit against an individual who offered first aid to someone who was injured in the US.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/jack-and-jill-first-aid-cartoon-10047.htm 23 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT Which crime prevention is more important? The crimes criminals commit against innocent people, or crimes committed against criminals? Seems that the law wants to treat every individual as though they have equal rights unless you might be a terrorist or course which means that if you seriously injure someone who has broken into yo... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/crime-prevention-and-criminal-protection-cartoon-10013.htm 23 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT If anyone was ever looking for an example of people making a living off of the misery of others the story of miner compensation in the UK has the be holy grail of examples.... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/miner-compensation-claim-cartoon-10005.htm 23 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT The separation of church and state has been in much debate. What is strange though, is that politicians use of religion to hit home political points is never really seen as crossing that line. Tony Blair's justification that he was morally okay with invading Iraq even though lawmakers were saying that it was illegal has received mu... http://www.nakedcompensation.org/strips/god-vs-tony-blair-cartoon-10033.htm 14 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT