Archive for March, 2010
Mesothelioma New Payment Scheme
Despite assertions in the tabloid press to the contrary, the figures for rising mesothelioma deaths in the UK are expected to peak between now and 2015. By 2020, it is feared that up to 30,000 people will have died of mesothelioma or asbestosis, as a result of the long latency period – up to 40 years or more – from initial asbestos exposure to asbestos disease being diagnosed and commencing a claim for mesothelioma compensation.
It was only 12 months ago that research into the occupational, domestic and environmental risks of mesothelioma, undertaken by the Institute of Cancer Research on behalf of the HSE (Health and Safety Executive), and the largest study of its kind to date, discovered the death rate from mesothelioma in the UK to be the highest in the world.
Asbestos Compensation Benefit Levels.
Looking back over the last thirty years of DSS asbestos benefit levels, classified under industrial disabilities, makes valuable, if not altogether, happy reading. It certainly gives reason enough for individual sufferers to pursue a separate asbestos compensation claim through a legal process.
Asbestos in Public Buildings.
Recently, some press attention has been focused on so-called ‘asbestos hysteria’ claiming that the dangers of its presence have been greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, as asbestosis sufferers know only too well, the terrible truth is very much the opposite and the many thousands of genuine claims for asbestos compensation are not best served by negative press treatment.
Asbestos Dangers Are Facts Not Hysteria!
A recent claim that much hysteria has been generated by a deliberate exaggeration and distortion of the realities of asbestos danger in environments like school classrooms, causes deep offence to the many proven asbestosis sufferers fighting long and hard for asbestos compensation. It also does an irresponsible disservice to the asbestos awareness initiatives of organisations like the Health & Safety Executive.