http://www.roberttarren.co.uk Robert Tarren Solicitors Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:31:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Instead of strengthening a law which is there to protect injured workers the Government proposes to abolish a 1998 regulation requiring employers to hold onto their personal injury insurance details for 40 years.  The intention is to replace it with mere guidance.  This will only reduce the chance of finding ... http://www.roberttarren.co.uk/threat-to-injured-workers-ability-to-find-insurers/ Victoria Wass (correspondence wass@cardiff.ac.uk) April 7th 2008 Background The Ogden Tables (Sixth Edition) (2007) introduced a new methodology for the calculation of loss of future earnings when the claimant has post-injury earning capacity. The key departure from the conventional method used prior to The Sixth Edition is the separate calculation of ... http://www.roberttarren.co.uk/62/ Personal injury lawyers acting for claimants continue to call on the government to introduce new legislation to allow sufferers of asbestos-related pleural plaques to claim compensation and so reverse the decision by the House of Lords last October 2007 which put an end to the longstanding right to compensation.  Pleural plaque, although said to be ... http://www.roberttarren.co.uk/scottish-executive-lead-the-way-on-asbestos-disease/ It is very good news that on 17th January 2008 the Court of Appeal handed down a landmark judgment supporting claimants in a series of very serious personal injury claims where there are substantial future care costs as a result of serious and often catastrophic injury.  These cases frequently involve the need ... http://www.roberttarren.co.uk/court-of-appeal-backs-claimants/ 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  ... http://www.roberttarren.co.uk/pleural-plaque-sufferers-will-not-be-compensated/ 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. ... http://www.roberttarren.co.uk/asbestos-tragedy-could-be-repeated/