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Asbestos Connection To Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Early in 2010, both a government health department and a court appeal ruling over distinctions to be made between causal connections in the issue of asbestos exposure, pleural thickening, pleural plaques and development of mesothelioma, proved disappointing to the claimants involved in the claim for mesothelioma compensation.
It has been often asserted that the raising of asbestos awareness in recent years, combined with the pressure to reform legislation and asbestosis lawyers pushing harder to obtain asbestos compensation for their long suffering clients has meant companies are taking their duty of care to their employees more seriously.
A Cornwall development company, Norwegian Homes Limited, has been fined £4,500 for failing to undertake a survey for the presence of dangerous asbestos fibres when demolishing a Hotel.
A local authority and it’s contractor have been fined after a worker left a family exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres for three days.
A development company has been fined a total of £15,000 at Bournemouth Crown Court for exposing employees and members of the public to the dangers of asbestos material while working at a property in Poole.