by Russell Worth | Feb 23, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
A founder of the Staffordshire Regimental Association’s Burton branch died from asbestos exposure, a coroner has ruled. 89-year-old Sam Hutchings spent 36 years in the Burton brewing industry and was exposed to asbestos on many occasions. He and his colleagues...
by Russell Worth | Feb 16, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
Retail giant B&M has been fined £5,300 for exposing its employees to asbestos fibres at its store in Dalkeith. An investigation by Midlothian Council’s Environmental Health officers found the firm to be in breach of health and safety regulations and it pleaded...
by Russell Worth | Jan 22, 2015 | asbestosis compensation, Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
Insurance giants Aviva and Zurich are to donate a combined £1million to fund mesothelioma research by the British Lung Foundation. The investment will be made over the next two years and it is hoped will prove invaluable in the prognosis of the cancer, caused by...
by Russell Worth | Jan 7, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
An art teacher has died from mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos through hanging paintings on classroom walls. 60-year-old Jennifer Barnett, of Painswick, Glos, passed away in September 2014. Speaking at the Gloucester inquest into her death, her husband...
by Russell Worth | Jul 21, 2014 | Accident Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
In a ruling which it is to be hoped will speed the path to justice for grieving families of deceased asbestos victims, the High Court has taken urgent steps to break a legal log-jam that had blocked the way to prompt damages payments. The deadly effects of asbestos...
by Russell Worth | Jun 18, 2014 | Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
A ground-breaking decision by the courts has seen a widow who was stricken by terminal lung cancer after spending years washing her husband’s asbestos-laden overalls secure a £700,000 pay-out. Recognising that the case raised ‘a point of some novelty’, the Court of...
