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As a personal injury solicitor who specialises in asbestos related disease claims I am used to people misunderstanding and belittling what I do.  The popular press has made sure that personal injury lawyers like me aren’t popular people. But even I was angry and shocked to read Ann... read more

  Jack Straw finally announced the government’s response to the consultation they launched back in 2008 to consider whether to reverse the House of Lord’s decision to make pleural plaques a compensatable condition again. The government have decided not to change the law but have proposed... read more

Those of you who read my blogs will know that I have written on many occasions about the terrible difficulties that victims of asbestos related diseases and cancers such as mesothelioma have in finding who insured their employer at the time they worked there.  That is because asbestos... read more

I read with interest in the Independent on Sunday that the Government is to present a £70m package of help for asbestos victims to trade unions this week. The proposals include setting up a research centre into asbestos-linked diseases; insisting insurers fund compensation for dying victims... read more

I've written the following article for this week's New Law Journal about pleural plaques. Asbestos, which was used extensively in power stations, ship building, house building and other sectors of industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, is made up of microscopic fibres which can be inhaled... read more

Readers of my blog interested in the campaign led by Asbestos Victims Support Groups and APIL amongst others to establish an insurance fund of last resort for victims of asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma should listen to this episode of the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme from minute... read more

On 12th November 2009 I along with Patrick Walsh, Pauline Chandler and Alicia Rendell of Pannone LLP attended the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group seminar which had the aim of discussing palliative care provision in Greater Manchester. The seminar was attended by victims of... read more

As regular readers of my blog will know, I am outraged that the government has still taken no firm action to re-instate pleural plaques as a compensatable injury. Pleural plaques are scarring to the lungs caused by exposure to asbestos.  Sufferers could obtain compensation for this injury... read more

  It has now been nearly a year since the Government's consultation into restoring compensation for pleural plaques sufferers was launched and when concluded it concluded in October 2008 many of us who represent victims of this asbestos related disease hoped that an announcement would be... read more

5 Pannone LLP members of staff will be taking part in day 6 of a 1,200-mile bike ride to raise awareness of ‘the breathtaking scandal of asbestos and the breathtaking damage it has caused.’ The bike ride's aim is to raise awareness that although asbestos is the cause of Britain's... read more