Archive for the ‘Government Asbestos News’ Category
Victory for Asbestos Victims
A ruling today in the Supreme Court has upheld a decision to compensate two victims of mesothelioma, an incurable lung cancer, who had been exposed to small amounts of asbestos dust.
Asbestos training for Apprentices
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have launched a scheme aimed at apprentice joiners, electricians, plumbers and other trades to warn of the dangers of asbestos. The scheme involves lectures being delivered at 6 training colleges across Cheshire and Merseyside and is supported by Jean Doyle whose husband died of mesothelioma after he worked as a Joiner all his life.
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.
Mesothelioma Cases are Underreported Worldwide
Researchers undertaking a new study have found that for every 4 to 5 reported cases of mesothelioma worldwide, at least one goes unreported, according to estimates published online today ahead of the print in the peer-reviewed Environmental Health Perspectives.