Archive for February, 2012
Dying asbestos victims plead to be let off new legal fees
Sufferers are demanding Justice Secretary Ken Clarke ditches his “abhorrent” reforms that would force them to pay two new fees.
Asbestos and the risk of exposure are always in the news. Lack of asbestos awareness to the serious health dangers right up until 1999 when the import of white asbestos was finally banned means that the horrific legacy of mesothelioma cancer and other asbestosis diseases still continue on an upward curve.
The case of a 66 year old plasterer who was said to have probably died from an asbestosis-related condition in 2011 featured on the BBC 1 documentary “Death Unexplained”, which aired on Tuesday 21st February.
Many key regions of Scotland, the North of England and Wales and the Midlands were almost entirely involved in manufacturing, construction, engineering and industrial production in twentieth century Britain.
Sweeping Asbestos Led To Fatal Mesothelioma
The issue of asbestos awareness and the continuing legacy of exposure to white chrysotile asbestos, inherited from the closing decades of the twentieth century, becomes highlighted whenever another unfortunate victim of mesothelioma is reported.