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The family of a woman who developed asbestosis as a result of work she carried out during the Second World War has won compensation for her pain and suffering. Doris Timbrell had worked assembling gas masks at a factory in Blackburn. This involved packing...
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The widow of a mill worker has won a six-figure sum in compensation after her husband died of asbestos-related cancer. Michael Bartholomew worked at a paper mill in Newbury for a spell during the 1950s and again in the 1960s. The factory had exposed pipes,...
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A former factory worker who developed an asbestos-related disease has won a significant sum in compensation. Fred Penn, now 73, worked for a boiler manufacturer in Worcester for 29 years before his retirement in 2004. During the 1970s, he regularly handled...
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A man has won compensation of £187,500 after his wife died of a disease caused by exposure to asbestos. Yvonne Moaby died of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs, aged 66. Her husband, John, had worked as an electrician, repairing and...
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The husband of a former Woolworths employee who died of an asbestos-related disease in 2010 has won compensation from the defunct retailer’s insurers. Betty Westhead had worked at the Woolworths shop in Durham for 35 years, until 1982, and it was...
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The family of a former metal tester has been awarded compensation after his death from an asbestos-related disease. Derek Billingham had worked for Lloyds British Inspection Services Ltd. (Lloyds) between 1968 and 1970, carrying out inspections of...
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A former power station worker has secured compensation after he developed the asbestos-related disease mesothelioma. The 77-year-old man worked at a power station in the North East between 1964 and 1991. He first worked as a cleaner, then as a...
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A woman from Swindon whose husband died of an asbestos-related disease has won £145,000 in compensation from his former employer. Sheila Simpson brought the case after her husband, Robin, died less than a year after he first developed symptoms of the...
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A former shipyard worker who has developed an asbestos-related disease has won compensation from two of his former employers. Robert Kemp, 75, worked first as an apprentice and then as a shipwright between the 1950s and the 1980s. During that time, he was...
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The family of a former hosiery worker who died of the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma has won compensation for the hospice that took care of him at the end of his life. The 67-year-old man had worked as a dyer for a clothing firm from 1958 until 1979....
