Electrician wins £948k damages over asbestos disease

Source : CN+ Construction News

A waste disposal business has been fined £15,000 for a serious breach of its pollution prevention and control permit conditions at its asbestos-handling site in Swindon, Wiltshire.

Source : The Environment Agency

A firm has to pay nearly £20,000 in fines and costs for smashing sheets of asbestos cement at a demolition site.

Source : The Hereford Times

A cancer sufferer who is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD), claiming her illness was caused by being exposed to asbestos, has spoken of her plight.

The 31-year-old from Telford, who does not want to be named, said she was certain a fire in 1983 at the MoD site near Donnington was to blame. She said she thought the white asbestos flakes which dropped in the area were "just like snow".The MoD has said it is looking into her claim.

Source : Injury Watch 

Asbestos found in schools right across West Surrey

Reports from County Hall show the potentially deadly material was present in 50 schools in Mole Valley, Guildford and Waverley.

Source : Surrey Advertiser

FFW report deaths from asbestos-related mesothelioma continue to rise

Evidence from Field Fisher Waterhouse supports the latest figures from the latest figures from the British Mesothelioma Register which shows that deaths caused by mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs caused by exposure to asbestos, is continuing to rise.

The Asbestos Claims Department at law firm, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, has been recovering compensation for victims of mesothelioma for 25 years. The statistics confirm the rise that the team’s lawyers have seen reflected in their caseload over the years.

The figures show that the number of deaths caused by mesothelioma have risen from 153 in 1968, to 1969 deaths in 2004, with the majority of deaths occurring in men.

The figures suggest that the peak in mesothelioma mortality in this country may occur in the next few years

The figures show that the geographical areas associated with the highest mesothelioma mortality are those associated with industries which in the past were responsible for high levels of exposure to asbestos.

Source : UKPRWire

Corporate Manslaughter Bill has further reading in the House of Lords