Archive for the ‘Asbestos Legal News’ Category
Low Level Asbestos Risk Under Review.
The raising of asbestos awareness, especially since the first Asbestos Regulations of 1969, which simply aimed to ‘manage asbestos contact’, and the evolution of legislation to adequately control and, ultimately, prohibit the use of the white chrysotile form of the hazardous material in 1999, has always been slow and contested every step of the way.
Mesothelioma Fund And Research Centre Dropped.
A Government proposal to introduce a £400million “fund of last resort”, which would provide finance assistance to former employees and their asbestosis lawyer to help trace former company employers whose workplaces had exposed them to the deadly asbestos fibre dust, has been reported to have been quietly abandoned.
Monday 1st August 2011 is the closing date to apply for the Ministry of Justice ‘Pleural Plaques Former Claimants Scheme’.
Action Mesothelioma Day 2011 – Manchester
Action Mesothelioma Day 2011 took place on Friday 1st July. Hundreds of asbestosis disease sufferers and their families came together at events staged at UK regional areas of former industrial and manufacturing asbestos use, including Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and Plymouth to warn of a growing asbestos crisis.
Mesothelioma Claims For Secondary Exposure
Secondary exposure to asbestos has been proven to occur in countless number of cases and where sufficient evidence can be given by the third party concerned. However, occasions have arisen where a challenge has been made to the evidence provided for establishing secondary exposure within an ongoing mesothelioma compensation case