Successful asbestos claim against Wates Group Limited, London Pensions Fund Authority and The BBC
Boyes Turner’s specialist industrial disease lawyers were instructed in July 2007 by a man who had been diagnosed with an asbestos related condition, thought to be asbestosis but confirmed by the independent experts in the case to be pleural thickening.
Asbestos Exposure
His asbestos exposure had come about during various employments and our asbestos lawyers successfully secured compensation for the man in claims against Wates Group Limited, London Pensions Fund Authority (formerly Greater London Council) and The BBC.
His asbestos exposure with Wates Group Limited came about whilst our client worked as a labourer on building sites, working in the vicinity of other tradesmen disturbing asbestos and working with asbestos based products, specifically pipefitters who were lagging pipework with asbestos on a regular basis.
Whilst employed by Greater London Council, the Claimant was a painter and decorator and worked on many prefabricated buildings containing asbestos as well as cleaning and preparing various asbestos surfaces within the premises in which he worked.
Finally, whilst working for The BBC as a painter and decorator and scenic painter, our client came into contact with asbestos working on the emergency staircases which were surrounded by asbestos lagged piping and became disturbed and also working in studios from which asbestos had been removed and disturbed in the process.
Asbestos Claim
Court proceedings were issued to progress the claim, as liability was not accepted by any of the defendants who alleged that the claim had been brought out of time.
Our asbestos lawyers obtained expert engineering evidence and following disclosure of this evidence we made offers to settle the claim against the defendants. Eventually these offers were accepted and the claim settled in the total sum of £12k representing 40% of the total value of the claim. Unfortunately the remaining 60% related to exposure to asbestos during employment which was uninsured.
Given the stance taken by the defendants and the issues raised this was an extremely good outcome for our client.
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