Archive for the ‘Asbestos Compensation News’ Category
Mesothelioma Compensation For Asbestos Filter Factory Victim.
Whilst news of large scale, asbestos industries continue to predominate amongst the 52 known, active mineral using nations, principally Canada, India, China and Russia, stories in the UK press regularly surface, which serve as a reminder of this country’s own horrific legacy of asbestos awareness denial.
Asbestos Claim Ruling Boost To Hospices.
Latest estimates forecast cases of mesothelioma are likely to peak at around 2,500 a year in the next ten years. It was therefore, landmark news in August, when a high court ruled that an employer responsible for exposing a former worker in the 1950s to asbestos, who later died from contracting the deadly cancer, mesothelioma, should pay the hospice a part of the mesothelioma compensation awarded for the care received.
Engineer/ Foreman’s family compensated
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.
Pleural Plaques Compensation
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.