Asbestos Related Illness

A retired plumber who was diagnosed with mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos at work has won £115,000 in damages. The man had worked almost exclusively for the same building firm between 1950 and the early 1970s. He was exposed to asbestos...

A retired man who has been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease several decades after exposure has received more than £141,000 in compensation. For more than 20 years, the man worked as a labourer at a paper mill, where he operated a paper...

The widow of a man who died of an asbestos-related disease has won over £250,000 in compensation. William Wolff had worked as a joiner for 50 years before he retired in 2005, three months before his 65th birthday. He and his wife had planned to tour...

The family of a former shipyard worker who was exposed to asbestos in more than one job has won compensation from three of his former employers. William Galloway began working as a lagger when he was 16 years old, and was exposed to asbestos during that...

A compensation settlement of £212,500 has been awarded to the widow of a former joiner who died as a result of being exposed to asbestos at work. The man had worked as a joiner for a building firm from 1958 to 1968. He and his wife later moved to...

A joiner who is now terminally ill after being exposed to asbestos at work has won compensation of more than £350,000 from his former employer. Stephen Adkin, 54, worked for Nova Retail Display Ltd. between 1996 and 2010. During the late 1990s he was...

The family of a woman who died from an asbestos-related disease has received £150,000 in compensation. Christina Bolas trained as a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and worked there until 1968, and again between 1971 and 1986. She...

The family of a man who died of mesothelioma has been awarded £250,000 in damages from the company where he used to work. The unnamed man had carried out research on asbestos for a chemical company. This necessitated cutting up samples of the...

The family of a woman who died of mesothelioma has received £150,000 in damages. Christina Bolas, who was 64 when she died, worked as an intensive care nurse in a Birmingham hospital. She was exposed to asbestos while using an underground corridor in...

The families of two women who died of mesothelioma have won compensation following a landmark decision by the Supreme Court. In each case, there was a sole known source of exposure to asbestos dust and the extent of the exposure was found to be very small. ...

The widow of a former town councillor who died of an asbestos-related disease has won compensation from his former employer. Ted Hissey, 75, was exposed to asbestos many years ago when he worked for what was then the Department of the Environment (DoE) at...

A recent ruling of the Supreme Court is an important victory for victims of mesothelioma, particularly those who claim to have developed the disease after exposure to only small amounts of asbestos dust. The Court dismissed the appeals of the employers of...

The wife of a man who died as a result of being exposed to harmful asbestos whilst at work has secured compensation of £74,000 from his former employer. George Combe, who was 69 when he died, had worked as an apprentice turner for an engineering firm...

A telephone engineer who is suffering from mesothelioma, a deadly asbestos-related disease, has won his battle for compensation from British Telecom (BT). Bernard Mottram, now 82, was employed by BT from 1970 until 1991, installing phone lines at office...

We regularly report on compensation awards made to victims of mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer that principally affects the external lining of the lungs and normally only affects people who have been exposed to harmful asbestos. The symptoms of the...

The family of a builder who died from an asbestos-related disease has won a compensation settlement from his employer. The man first developed chest problems whilst on holiday in Spain and his condition was serious enough to warrant admission to hospital....

A compensation settlement of £47,500 has been awarded to the family of a Devonshire man who had been exposed to asbestos in the workplace and subsequently died of an asbestos-related disease. Donald Bracher had worked on and off for a firm in...

The family of a man who died of an asbestos-related disease has received £121,716 in compensation. James Simpson died in a hospice at the age of 83 shortly after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a particularly lethal form of cancer caused by...

After a three-year legal battle, the High Court has ruled that a mesothelioma victim’s former employer must pay for his hospice care. Mesothelioma is a deadly disease, almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. It can manifest itself decades after...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that the Government is to compensate thousands of victims of pleural plaques. Pleural plaques are a form of scarring of the lungs caused by penetration of them by asbestos fibres. Since pleural plaques do not...

The family of a man who died of an asbestos-related disease has secured a settlement of £57,500. John Scott, who was 76 when he died of mesothelioma, had worked as a foreman and electrician for the Atomic Energy Authority for almost forty years until...

A pensioner who developed a deadly form of lung cancer decades after coming into contact with asbestos in the workplace has won a six-figure compensation settlement. The 72-year-old man worked as an engineer for a motor vehicle manufacturer between 1953 and...

After a four-year legal battle, the seven sisters of a Plymouth woman killed by an asbestos-related disease have won a five-figure sum in damages from the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Beverley McKnight was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an asbestos-related...

A former pipe fitter who worked for Michelin Tyre plc has been awarded £23,300 in compensation after he developed a respiratory disease from exposure to asbestos in the workplace. Roy Ibbs was employed by Michelin between 1969 and 1985, during which...

The widow of a factory worker has won an interim settlement of £50,000 after her husband died of an asbestos-related disease. Alan Bickle, 58, worked for over 30 years for a cigarette filter manufacturer, until he was made redundant seven years ago....