Archive for the ‘Government Asbestos News’ Category
National Centre for Asbestos-Related Diseases Announced.
The blow dealt by the recent let down from the Government, ruling out mesothelioma compensation for pleural plaques sufferers, was softened by plans announced to create an Employers’ Liability Tracing Bureau and the setting up of a UK National Centre for Asbestos Related Disease.
Asbestos sufferers have been outraged at insensitive comments made by soon to retire tory MP ahead of the general election. In her regular column on the Daily Express’s website
Asbestos Denial – The Victims Story & Lawyers
I am writing this article in relation to asbestos compensation, as over the last few weeks there has been a tendency in the press namely The Daily Mail and Daily Express to vilify victims of mesothelioma as ambulance chasers and suggest those willing to forgo significant compensation on behalf of deceased family members are heroes or heroines.
Pleural Plaque – Government Payments
The government has decided to make payments to those who had begun, but not resolved legal claims for compensation for pleural plaques before a Law Lords ruling in October 2007.
Latest Pleural Plaques News
Following the Government’s announcement this morning that only some pleural plaques victims will receive a compensation payment more details of their asbestos plan have been made known. We have summarised them as