Archive for the ‘Asbestos Legal News’ Category
Successful Asbestos Claimants May Claim Again
Following a decision in made by the House of Lords that pleural plaques should no longer be compensated, the English government established a scheme whereby the government (rather than negligent Defendant) would make a one off payment of £5,000 to victims who had already commenced their claims before 17th October 2007.
Dangers of Crysotile
In English law there has been found to be no safe level of asbestos however this is distinguished from an employer being found negligent. Depending upon the illness different levels of exposure are required to prove causation.
Equitas, the reinsurance vehicle created by Lloyd’s of London to pay off all the liabilities of Lloyd’s reinsurance syndicates for policies written before 1993 and asbestos-related claims, many of which go back to the 1950s and 60s, have just recently announced it would “ … make (ex-gratia) payments to mesothelioma victims in situations where they would have been compensated by a Lloyd’s policy but the company no longer exists or cannot be traced.”
Djanogly challenged on mesothelioma ‘trigger’
As reported by the association of personal Injury Lawyers a Labour MP has tabled an Early Day Motion calling for the point of exposure to asbestos to be the trigger point for employers’ liability policies in mesothelioma cases.
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.