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Asbestos News

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 28 May 2014; Hits: 3266

A story appeared on BBC news recently which highlights the failings of companies to properly recognise the dangers of asbestos. Angus Group Ltd, an asbestos removal firm, was fined £109,000 when it failed to adequately carry out the proper risk...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 28 February 2013; Hits: 3192

A Wokingham business has been fined £28,000 and ordered to pay £22,631 in costs for failing to alert two subcontractors of the presence of asbestos in the workplace.

Gardener Mechanical Services Ltd had been contracted to carry out a mechanical...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 27 February 2013; Hits: 3314

Staffordhire council and building contractors fined for asbestos exposure during refurbishment Staffordshire City Council and a firm of building contractors hired to undertake refurbishment work in a local school have been fined £27,000...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 26 February 2013; Hits: 3544

Marks & Spencer fined over failure to properly investigate asbestos complaints High street firm, Marks & Spencer, has been fined one million pounds after failing to properly investigate asbestos complaints. A judge has found that the lack...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 26 July 2012; Hits: 3458

Thompsons welcomes the announcement of an Employer's Liability Insurance Bureau Scheme for mesothelioma claims. The Department of Work and Pensions yesterday announced a £300 million fund of last resort for those sufferers of mesothelioma who have...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 12 July 2012; Hits: 3459

PRESS RELEASE FROM THOMPSONS SOLICITORS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thompsons Solicitors is to hold a public meeting with local politicians, officials and residents at St Mark’s Church Hall, Shettleston next week following a recent asbestos scare in...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 01 October 2011; Hits: 2299

Thompsons Solicitors has welcomed ground-breaking damages of £258,000 awarded to the family of one of their clients who died just seven months after being diagnosed with mesothelioma.

Mrs Elizabeth Wolff and her family won the damages following...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 21 April 2011; Hits: 2099

Thompsons Solicitors, the only law firm to represent individual clients at the Court of Session Judicial Review hearings on pleural plaques, has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to take on insurance companies over the issue.

First...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 12 April 2011; Hits: 2589

Pleural Plaques Opinion - 12th April 2011 Picture courtesy of the Daily Record

Pleural Plaques campaigners and victims expressed their delight at the decisions of three Court of Session Appeal Judges who...

Details: Asbestos News; Created: 11 March 2011; Hits: 2189

Thompsons Solicitors and asbestos campaigners have welcomed a judgment by the UK’ s supreme court reinforcing victims’ rights to compensation.

The Court rejected an appeal against compensation awarded to relatives of two women from Merseyside...

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Contractors failed in duty to alert workers to presence of asbestos

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Marks & Spencer fined over asbestos complaints

Mesothelioma Compensation in Scotland

PUBLIC MEETING FOR CONCERNED SHETTLESTON RESIDENTS

Thompsons Welcomes Ground-breaking Award to Mesothelioma Victim's Family

Thompsons Welcomes Scottish Government's Commitment To Fight For Plaques Law

Pleural Plaques Campaigners and Victims Welcome Judgment

Supreme Court Judgment Reinforces Asbestos Victims' Right to Compensation