This blog is produced by members of the Personal Injury department at Pannone LLP, a full service law firm based in Manchester city centre. Our Personal Injury Team is the top-rated team in the North West in Chambers Legal Directory. We undertake the full spectrum of personal injury work, from road traffic accidents to industrial disease cases; from travel and tourism litigation to catastrophic injury claims involving serious head, spinal and amputation injuries; from police assault and child abuse cases to group actions arising from major disasters.
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By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
As a solicitor who specialises in industrial disease cases such as mesothelioma and asbestosis I know what invaluable work hospices do to care for cancer sufferers and their families. Therefore I was very pleased to read about a landmark claim recently in the news, reported in the... read more
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Wednesday, July 28, 2010
My colleague, Madelene Holdsworth, who specialises in asbestos compensation claims against Turner and Newalls, has put together this useful update on the compensation scheme: Up until now, sufferers of asbestos related conditions who worked at Turner and Newalls, Turners Asbestos Cement and... read more
By Kim Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Thursday, July 15, 2010
As a lawyer who specialises in obtaining compensation for workers who have contracted asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestosis I like to think I know quite a bit about asbestos and it’s use. However I was shocked and quite frankly stunned to hear at the last conference I... read more
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Monday, July 5, 2010
On Friday 2nd July it was Action Mesothelioma Day across the country and I am proud to say staff from Pannone LLP attended and supported events in Manchester, Liverpool and Barrow organised by asbestos victim support groups in those places. The idea of the day is to raise awareness of... read more
By Kim Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Thursday, June 24, 2010
Last Friday I attended a course run by the Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group which is a charity helping victims of asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma. The first speaker was Michael Lees, who is part of the Asbestos In Schools campaign formed in 2009. Michael's... read more
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Following the election of the Con-Dem government many of us were worried that with talks of cuts the new government would look again at whether to compensate the pleural plaques victims who had already begun their claims before the House of Lords decided that pleural plaques was no longer a... read more
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Tuesday, April 13, 2010
In my last blog I wrote about the death of Malcolm McLaren, former Sex Pistols manager from mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. What I didn’t know at that point was where Malcolm could have been exposed to asbestos. In today’s... read more
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Friday, April 9, 2010
I heard the news report that the man who is considered to be the cornerstone of the punk rock movement in the 1970’s died yesterday, 8th April. Most of the press and TV coverage referred to Malcolm as having died of cancer. This is because most people have not heard of... read more
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Thursday, March 11, 2010
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
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Friday, February 26, 2010
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
