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Walk for Mesothelioma

17 June 2009 - The Family and friends of Mr. Francis Innelli who was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung caused by asbestos, will be doing a sponsored walk from the Pier Head Liverpool to Southport on Saturday 20 June to raise funds for the Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group (MAVS). Dave Innelli, Mr. Innell's son has organised the walk to raise awareness of the disease...more

£32,500 compensation for South African pleural thickening victim

8 June 2009 - Mr Mant was exposed to asbestos during the 1950s and 1960s whilst working at Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain. He was employed by the War Department and subsequently the Ministry for Public Building and Works...more

Asbestos Victims Lobby Fat Cats

8 June 2009 - Members of the Merseyside Asbestos Victim Support Group (MAVS) will be travelling to the ABI (Association of British Insurers') AGM in London on Tuesday 9th June to lobby the organisation to meet their demands on compensation. The group are demanding an equitable system for compensating asbestos victims who do not receive any compensation from their members when insurance policies cannot be traced....more

Liverpool Law Firm shortlisted for personal injury award

8 June 2009 - John Pickering and Partners LLP have been shortlisted for a prestigious award from Liverpool Law Society of Personal Injury Team of the Year...more

Mesothelioma Campaign Petition Handed into 10 Downing Street 

4 June 2009 - A petition signed by over 20,000 people was handed into 10 Downing Street, on the 20th May 2009. The petition is urging the government to provide funding for a specialist research centre for mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos which is the least researched of the UK’s top 20 cancers....more

Mesothelioma Widow Recovers Compensation

4 June 2009 - Having watched his work colleague die from mesothelioma, Charles Reed, ‘Spud’, to his friends feared the worst when he developed breathlessness. ..more

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This ad from the 1950s proclaims the miracle properties of asbestos, but it was identified as a serious health hazard in the 1920's and causes mesothelioma... more

 
         

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Employers' Liability Insurance Bureau Bill to Protect Mesothelioma Sufferers

29 May 2009 - When a person has been diagnosed with an asbestos related illness, particularly mesothelioma, it is extremely traumatic. There are many things to consider. In comparison, in a road traffic accident, one of the first questions to be asked is undoubtedly ‘Are you insured?’.. more

My settlement exceeded my expectations says former bricklayer in asbestosis claim

29 May 2009 - Ken Walker was enjoying his retirement with his wife Thelma when he was diagnosed with asbestosis in August 2007.  He instructed us to claim compensation from his former employer Pilkington Brothers Limited who exposed him to asbestos dust during his employment as an apprentice bricklayer, bricklayer and technologist...more

John Pickering and Partners Staff to Run 10k for Charity

27 May 2009 - On 14 June 2009 a team of John Pickering and Partners LLP employees will be donning their running shoes to take part in a charity 10 k run in Victoria Park, London for Barts and the London Charity.  This is an independent charity for the three hospitals of Barts and the London NHS Trust – Barts in the city, The Royal London in Whitechapel and The London Chest in Bethnal Green....more

Spring Newsletter 2009

Paul to hit the road again for mesothelioma

21 May 2009 - Paul Glanville, partner at John Pickering and Partners LLP, will be joining other cyclists in a ‘Breathtaking Journey’ around the U.K.  The aim of the ride is to raise awareness about the risks posed by asbestos and the breathtaking damage, in particular mesothelioma, has caused to men and women across the world...more

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Fastest mesothelioma lawyer in the land

21 May 2009 - Satpal Singh, a solicitor at our Halifax office, dealt with a mesothelioma claim from start to finish in an impressive 24 days...more

 

 

Insurers’ bid to halt Scottish law change

21 May 2009 - A group of insurers have lodged a judicial review against The Damages (Asbestos-related conditions) (Scotland) Act.  The Act makes pleural plaques a compensatable condition in Scotland but does not apply to England, Wales and Northern Ireland....more

Prime Minister gets involved in moving forward agenda for asbestos in schools

21 May 2009 - On 14 May, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown met asbestos campaigners, the leaders of the biggest teaching unions and worried MP’s to discuss concerns about asbestos related deaths in schools in particular from mesothelioma....more

Asbestos sheets found in children’s play area

22 April 2009 - Parents in Barrow were shocked to find their young children playing with corrugated asbestos sheets. The asbestos sheets had been left in Walney in Barrow. The parents have contacted the Council to have this deadly asbestos removed..more

Sweet Victory for Family

22 April 2009 - When Doris Fowler took a job at Nuttall’s sweet factory in Doncaster she had no idea that it would eventually claim her life from mesothelioma. She worked in the factory on the boiling pans. She boiled toffee to make the famous ‘Nuttall’s Mintoes’ sweets...more

Joiner Receives £170,000 Compensation in Successful Mesothelioma Claim

1 April 2009 - Our client, Mr F, was fit and active, working two days a week as a joiner and three days a week for a charity, when he was told that he was told he was suffering from the terminal condition mesothelioma, caused as a result of his exposure to asbestos.  He was 59 years old at the time..more. 

Secretary dies from asbestos cancer

1 April 2009 - Mrs P was born and brought up in South Africa.  She trained as a secretary in Durban before coming to England.  She fell in love with her husband to be and stayed in London. They married and had two children.

She found work as a secretary at the Central Asbestos Factory in Mile End London. It was here that she breathed in the asbestos fibres which would eventually take her life from mesothelioma...more

Daily Mirror’s Asbestos Timebomb Campaign -

17 March 2009 - See their aims here ...more

 

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