Pleural Plaques Bill Passes through House of Commons!
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Friday, October 16, 2009
I have just this minute heard that Andrew Dismore's private members bill, The Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) Bill, which aims to make pleural plaques a compensatable condition again has been passed by the House of Commons this afternoon. This is brilliant news for the victims of asbestos related disease.
Let's hope its passage through the House of Lords is as smooth...
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Kim Harrison wrote:
I completely sympathise. 99% of pleural plaques do not give symptoms but of course having pleural plaques can be a great worry to sufferers and their families and is a marker of having been exposed to asbestos and should be compensated. It is to be hoped that the law will change in England like Scotland but unfortunately it has not changed yet.
mr. glenn cook wrote:
i suffer from plural plaques. when these plaques have calcifide they must lose flexability. this must impare lung movement giving aphysical condition,this is totaly the opposit to medical opinions i have heard these people state quite clearly that plural plaques do not have any physical effects on sufferers. i beleive that my breathing is effected by this. i cant understand why this condition has not been raised by anyone else it must turn the house of lords ruling on its head regards glenn