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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

Della Sabin of Wigan finally has justice after being awarded £100,000 following the death of her husband Leslie from asbestosis, represented by Pauline Chandler, Partner at Pannone LLP who specialises in asbestos related disease claims.  The case is reported in the Manchester Evening News... 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

Readers of my blog will know that as well as waiting for the government to make an announcement on pleural plaques, Labour MP Andrew Dismore has 2 bills going through the commons at present which are private members bills.  Both bills were debated last Friday. The first, the Damages (... read more

Last week I blogged that according to the press the government was about to announce a £70 million asbestos package to include setting up an insurance fund of last resort for suffers of the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma and to fund more research into this terrible asbestos cancer. I... read more

Further to my most recent blog on this there are further rumours that the government is set to announce any day that victims of asbestos cancer mesothelioma where insurers cannot be traced will be compensated by a "fund of last resort" a bit like the Motor Insurers Bureau which compensates road... 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 act for sufferers of asbestos related diseases and cancers who were exposed to asbestos many years ago.  When it was first manufactured asbestos was seen as a ‘wonder mineral’ that was incredibly versatile and heat resistant.  Of course in today’s society we know the dangers of... read more

Regular readers of my blog will know that last year the Scottish Parliament changed the law to allow victims of asbestos related pleural plaques to obtain compensation.  Then the insurance companies tried to use the European Convention on Human rights to challenge the law.  I’m... read more