Stand in the breach

- By Insurance Post Staff
- 02 Nov 2006
- Indicative reading time: 4 minutes

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The legal action against a council worker implicated in a legionnaires' disease outbreak in 2002 highlights the weakness of corporate manslaughter charges. David Lewis says there is too much scope for conflict between employer and employee

The recent conclusion of the long-running Crown Court manslaughter proceedings arising from the legionnaires' disease outbreak at Barrow-in-Furness in 2002 has again drawn attention to sensitive

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