Asbestos advice, mesothelioma compensation and claims from UK specialist We Solicitors.

We Solicitors have secured more than £143,000 in compensation for a former shipyard worker after being exposed to asbestos almost 50 years ago.

The 66-year-old former joiner, who worked at City Dock in Bristol, developed mesothelioma...
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There was a remarkable number of everyday household objects, as well as commercial/industrial components containing asbestos material, manufactured up until the 1970s and 1980s, many of which, would simply not be suspected of containing the toxic mineral.

It has long been established that until the legislation of the 1970s/80s, both Britain’s shipbuilding and dockyard workers were two of the most vulnerable groups to be continuously exposed to asbestos, the direct and consequential cause of related cancers and fatal diseases such as asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma.

The family of Kenneth Wildman have won a £48,500 payout after Mr Wildman died of mesothelioma, a lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos dust. Mr Wildman worked as an Engineer/ Foreman 1960-1988 at Royal George Mill and came into contact with asbestos whilst carrying out his duties.

A recently published study, which investigated the value of measuring exhaled biomarkers from individuals exposed to asbestos, have found a level of detectable symptoms that would not occur in normal subjects.

Dear Mr Evans
I would like to thank you and all at WE Solicitors for your assistance with my compensation claim over the last few years.