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“I get very angry when insurance companies try to argue that pleural plaques is harmless.”

Elaine Darling knows from bitter personal experience just how quickly and easily pleural plaques can develop into fatal cancers.

Her father George O’Donnell, 80, a builder to trade was diagnosed with pleural plaques just three years ago. He died in August this year from mesothelioma the deadly form of asbestos related cancer.

Elaine said: “I get very angry when people like the insurance companies try to argue that pleural plaques is harmless and nothing to worry about.

“It was heart breaking to see what a devastating effect mesothelioma had on my Dad.

“He was diagnosed with pleural plaques in 2008. At the end of 2009 we discovered he had mesothelioma and he went on a course of chemotherapy.

“The first course worked and he was fine for about seven months, but then it came back. This time the chemo didn’t work and the doctors told him there was nothing more they could do for him”.

Elaine spoke of her father’s plight at a press conference following the Court of Session’s pleural plaques judgment just six months ago. At that time George was going on a respite break to Blackpool.

She added: “That was the last time he could go away because he wasn’t fit to travel, and he couldn’t get insurance. 

“It was really terrible to see him just getting worse and worse every day – a dreadful, dreadful experience.

“It’s such a strain when someone you love is in that position - basically your life just stops and you live for each day. It was especially hard for my Mum, Mary who cared for him morning noon and night.

“It’s such a shame because even at his time of life my Dad had so much to give, and when he was well enough he tried to keep all our spirits up.

“But eventually he couldn’t fight anymore and he just wanted it to end and the pain to stop.”