UK Sets Out Reforms to Address Failures in Grenfell Tower Fire February 28, 2025 By Damian Shepherd The UK set out a raft of reforms designed to improve building safety, as it aims to clamp down on...
Ghosts of Grenfell Disaster: No Penalties for UK Firms That Used Flammable Cladding January 6, 2025 By Tom Bergin When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped...
UK Government’s Safety Plan for High-Rise Buildings Could Push Away Investors: Aviva July 14, 2021 By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu Aviva Plc, the UK insurer and asset manager, warned the government that new safety proposals for high-rise apartment blocks could...
Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry Chief Seeks Immunity for Corporate Witnesses February 10, 2020 By Danica Kirka The chairman of the inquiry into a London apartment building fire that killed 72 people wrote Britain’s attorney general Thursday...
Firms Involved in Building Work on London’s Grenfell Tower Take No Blame for 2017 Fire January 29, 2020 Firms involved in building work on London tower bloc that caught fire have sidestepped any responsibility for the 2017 tragedy...
Inquiry into Grenfell Tower Inferno Criticizes Fire Brigade for Higher Fatalities October 31, 2019 By Gregory Katz British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday vowed to speed up efforts to make sure the dangerous cladding used in the...
Norway Insurer Protector Expects Q2 Loss After Grenfell Fire Ruling with Munich Re July 10, 2019 Shares in Protector Forsikring fell 12% on Wednesday after the Norwegian insurer warned about a second-quarter loss, partly because it...
Lawsuit Filed for ‘Defective’ Products Linked to London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster June 13, 2019 By L.S. Howard Three U.S. companies have been slapped with a wrongful death and products liability lawsuit for manufacturing products linked to London’s...
London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Report Says ‘Stay Put’ Policy Failed Residents June 7, 2018 By Jill Lawless Residents of London’s Grenfell Tower were wrongly told to stay in their apartments as fire raged through the high-rise building...
Insurer-Backed Research Urges Reform of Fire Tests of British Building Materials April 25, 2018 British laboratory tests on the fire safety of building materials are inadequate, research for the insurance industry in the wake...