Welcome to the Asbestos Compensation Claims website from Humphreys & Co. Solicitors. Here you will find free information and advice about asbestos, mesothelioma, asbestosis, asbestos-related lung cancer and pleural plaques.
We have been working with asbestos victims for decades to win for them the compensation they deserve. We have seen first-hand the devastating effect that asbestos industrial disease has on people’s lives.
It is hoped that this website will provide some useful guidance at a difficult time. If you want to find out more about any of the issues discussed here, you can always talk things through with your doctor, or with one of our experienced asbestos partners.
We have divided the material into asbestos background information, the symptoms and treatment of asbestos industrial disease, and an outline of the asbestos compensation claims process. Please use the menu at the top of this page to explore the categories. You will also note the asbestos news feed below and to the right. Please check back regularly to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the treatment of asbestos and compensation available to asbestos victims.
With the benefit of hindsight, the reality is that the extensive use made of asbestos over the last 150 years in the construction and manufacturing industries has resulted in huge loss and damage, let alone loss of life to workers exposed to asbestos fibres. We will continue to see the effects of this for many years to come, with the number of people suffering and dying from exposure to airborne asbestos fibres not expected to peak for at least another decade.
Although the damage cannot usually be undone once the symptoms of asbestos exposure start, there is no need for the situation to be worsened with financial hardship. We can advise you as to how your personal circumstances might be improved with claims for certain state benefits and an action for asbestos compensation. We will strive to take your case on a no win, no fee basis, so that you will not need to pay us a legal fee under any circumstances.
The Supreme Court rules in favour of mesothelioma claimants – 9th March 2011 in the cases of:
Sienkiewicz -v- Greif; Willmore -v- Knowsley 2011 UKSC10.
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of mesothelioma claimants who suffered low levels of asbestos exposure.
Now in order to succeed on the issue of causation a mesothelioma claimant only needs [...]
more→On Friday of last week the Court of Appeal overturned a 2008 decision of the High Court that in cases of workers exposed many years ago to asbestos it was the companies’ insurers at the time the exposure took place that were responsible for paying out compensation.
Stephen Burbidge of Humphreys & [...]
more→With a new incoming government, it is vital that existing Department for Work and Pensions proposals to improve access to compensation for victims of asbestos industrial disease are not forgotten. This was the message sent out in a recent press release from the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Employers are legally required [...]
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