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GOVERNMENT DETERMINED TO TAKE ACTION ON PLAQUES
Posted: 17-03-2008
Gordon Brown has stated that he is determined to take some action in relation to compensation for Pleural Plaques. In answer to a Parliamentary Question on 12/3/2008 ...
ASBESTOS COMPENSATION RULED OUT BY LAW LORDS
Posted: 17-10-2007
In January 2006 the Court of Appeal decided in a test case that no compensation should be awarded to individuals suffering from pleural plaques alone. That deci ...
Marrons Launch Dedicated Asbestos Website
Posted: 04-04-2005
While we have provided basic information about asbestos claims on this site, we felt it would help our clients suffering from asbestos related disease if we were to set u ...
Asbestos timebomb cover-up
Posted: 25-11-2004
A Chronicle probe has uncovered hundreds of the documents which show directors knew workers were being put at risk from asbestos. Papers from the Wa ...
Future of Personal Injury Claims - Lord Falconer
Posted: 17-11-2004
Andy Cook Hello and welcome to the Second Insurance Times ‘Future of Claims’ Conference. I’m delighted to see so many of you here today for what is a massive ma ...
Compensation Culture is a Myth
Posted: 17-11-2004
Andy CookHello and welcome to the Second Insurance Times ‘Future of Claims’ Conference. I’m delighted to see so many of you here today for what is a massive mas ...
Thousands of Britons are dying of a lung disease that has been largely ignored
Posted: 17-09-2004
There is a hidden killer out there. It will end the lives of more than 2,000 Britons a year in a terrible, painful way - and you may be only metres away from the cause ...
Asbestos ruling set to help thousands of claimants - Fairchild, Fox and Matthews
Posted: 15-07-2002
On 26th June 2002 the House of Lords made a landmark ruling. Where claimants can prove significant asbestos exposure with more than one defendant but cannot establish ...

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