Asbestos Related Illness

A gardener who developed a deadly asbestos-related disease has won £205,000 in compensation from his former employers. Mr Gaffney, 57, worked for the University of Liverpool during the 1980s looking after the grounds. He used to take his lunch breaks...

A former employee of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been awarded £65,000 in damages after he developed asbestosis. Alan Cox, 85, worked in dockyards and on ships where he was repeatedly exposed to asbestos. This first occurred when he worked for...

A grandfather who contracted an asbestos-related cancer has won £140,000 compensation, even though an initial attempt to trace the insurers of his former employers proved unsuccessful. Ronnie Cadwallader, 76, was exposed to asbestos when he worked as...

The widow of a man who died as a result of being exposed to asbestos while working at an oil refinery many years earlier has been awarded more than £300,000 in compensation in the High Court. Frances Streets’ husband began his career working for...

A pensioner who developed an asbestos-related disease has won compensation for his illness. The man, who had worked for a variety of employers in the Cambridgeshire area, was exposed to asbestos at work on a daily basis. Despite this, he was neither offered...

A man whose wife died of mesothelioma, a deadly cancer that attacks the lining of the lungs, heart or abdomen and is almost exclusively caused by exposure to asbestos, has won an undisclosed amount in compensation. June Probin, who was a trained nurse, knew...

The family of a man who died in 2007 of an asbestos-related disease has won the right to compensation. The man used to work as a self-employed tailor but lack of business forced him to change his line of work in order to support his family. He took a job in...

An electrician has received damages after he developed an asbestos-related disease as a result of being exposed to the deadly substance in the course of his work. Ken Morton, 70, developed asbestosis after a 45-year career as an electrician. He was exposed...

A former dock worker who is dying of the asbestos-related disease mesothelioma has been awarded substantial compensation after a three day trial in the High Court. Ian Waite, 62, worked for the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority, between 1972 and the late...

The widow of a school teacher who died from mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos in a school’s science laboratories has been awarded compensation. The unnamed man worked as a chemistry teacher at a school in East Sussex for 34 years. He...

A man diagnosed with the asbestos-related disease mesothelioma has been awarded £200,000 in compensation. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, worked as a labourer’s mate, mixing asbestos for use in the insulation of boiler pipes in a power...

The family of a former shipwright who died of the asbestos-related disease mesothelioma has received £112,000 in compensation. The man worked for the Ministry of Defence at HM Dockyards in Devonport as an apprentice shipwright from 1941 to 1946....

The family of a 60-year-old teacher who died of an asbestos-related disease have won their claim for compensation. Terence Dugdale was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer that attacks the lining of the lung, after he was exposed to asbestos 40 years...

The family of a Lancashire man has received more than £74,000 in compensation after he died from asbestos-related mesothelioma – a cancer of the lining of the lungs. The 65-year-old man had worked as a labourer for a firm in Chorley and was...

A recent case illustrates that, contrary to popular conception, the risk of developing an asbestos-related illness is not confined to ship and dockyard workers or those who have worked in heavy industry as laggers and maintenance electricians. A Royal...