Archive for August, 2010


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.

Surprisingly, a question often just simply overlooked, but can a family pet be affected by exposure to asbestos and develop the deadly mesothelioma, just as humans do?