Lords asbestos ruling favours insurers

UK insurers received a boost recently when the House of Lords decided to cut asbestos compensation m...

UK insurers received a boost recently when the House of Lords decided to cut asbestos compensation mesothelioma sufferers and their families receive. The employers of two men who died of mesothelioma have won an appeal to change the law, with the result that their widows, Sylvia Barker and Mary Murray, will not get full compensation. Both widows have lost an appeal mounted by their husbands' former employers to change the law, because their late husbands had more than one employer, and at least

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