Nigeria: Substantial damages for fatal industrial accident

Evidence arose in a recent case before the National Industrial Court (NIC) that an employer does not defray responsibility for a fatal workplace accident by simply denying culpability, claiming an accident did not take place in the course of employment, by paying for the funeral or insisting that compensation claims were purely the duty of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and its appeal processes …

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