A number of industrial disease claims appear to have been hampered recently by the lack of adequate consideration and investigation by the coroner. In one case a worker exposed to asbestos at the York Carriage Works for British Rail sadly passed away in December...
WE Solicitors recently represented a client who had been diagnosed with asbestosis, having moved from the UK to Texas some years ago. The claimant was employed at The Royal Devonport Dockyard, Portsmouth between 1960 and 1967 as an apprentice electrical fitter and...
A former electrician and Birmingham resident, Mr Roger Prince died of mesothelioma, an asbestos related cancer, leaving his wife Carol. Roger and Carol moved to Spain in 2016 to live out their retirement in the sun but sadly Roger was was diagnosed with the...
Mr S contacted WE Solicitors about a claim for an asbestos related condition, having been exposed during the course of his employment with CEGB, from 1963 to 1965. Mr S was employed in the maintenance department and he would paint everything from pipework to...
Our client was employed at Vickers Shipyard in Barrow as an apprentice electrician between 1961 and 1974. He recalled working on various nuclear submarines commissioned for the Navy, during which time he was heavily exposed to asbestos. He would regularly...
In July 2020, we Solicitors were contacted by the family of a former client. We have acted on his behalf in 2012 and brought a successful claim for asbestosis against British Rail, Crewe. In late 2019 our former client was diagnosed with lung cancer and...
