A recent House of Lords decision has denied compensation to many thousands of workers negligently exposed to asbestos by their former employers and now diagnosed with the condition known a pleural plaque.
Even those suffering a real psychiatric disorder ( as opposed to just worry ) as a result of the  diagnosis will not be entitled […]

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The Health and Safety Executive is heavily criticised for its approach to tackling workplace cancer in a report to just published by experts at Stirling University.
The figure for work related cancer deaths could be as high as 24,000, not the figure of 6,000 favoured by the Health and Safety Executive. It would appear that […]

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