In 2007 the Lords ruled that sufferers of pleural plaques could not seek compensation through the courts. But claimants could still succeed if they base their case on a breach of contract On 20 ...

PLEURAL plaques victims have welcomed a compensation scheme started after the Chronicle spearheaded a campaign for suffers to get justice. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) yesterday began accepting ...

TIME is running out for victims of the pleural plaques scandal to claim their rightful compensation before the Government stops payments. They need to get their claims in before August 1 – or ...

The dispute centred on whether or not Claimants who contract a condition known as Pleural Plaques, as a result of negligent exposure to Asbestos, are entitled to recover damages. Pleural Plaques are ...

A government consultation on whether people with pleural plaques should be able to claim damages has been criticised by a leading insurance lawyer as threatening to undermine the ‘constitutional ...

The UK Supreme Court has backed the right of people in Scotland to claim damages if they have an asbestos-related condition called pleural plaques. Insurance firms had tried to get Scottish ...

The Supreme Court in London has ruled on the validity of Scotland's law on compensation for pleural plaque patients, backing the right of people in Scotland to claim damages. One man told BBC ...

In October, a Supreme Court ruling found that the Scottish Parliament acted within its powers in making pleural plaques compensatable, thwarting a challenge by a group of insurers to the Damages Only ...

Pleural plaques were present in 79% of cases for which information was available, and asbestosis was diagnosed in 34/127 cases (27%). Median survival was 3.5 months. Fiber analysis was performed ...

A group of MPs has put forward an early day motion regarding the rights of those with pleural plaques. Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print ...

Ron Marsh says he was exposed to asbestos at a locomotive works in the 1960s The Supreme Court in London has ruled on the validity of Scotland's law on compensation for pleural plaque patients ...