Asbestos disease claims are made every day by specialist asbestos solicitors working on behalf of clients who have just received the news that they have got asbestos disease. Most of the claims that our asbestos disease lawyers deal with are on behalf of clients who were exposed to asbestos disease ...
Yes, it is, and it wasn’t just wives who got asbestos disease from, what is known as, secondary exposure to asbestos. Some children who gave their fathers a hug every night after Dad returned home from work, still clad in overalls caked in asbestos dust, also went on to get ...
The symptoms described above are fairly generic. They could be symptoms of a number of ailments, many that are far less serious in nature than asbestos disease. For that reason, it’s easy to dismiss them as being fairly trivial and to try to, ‘ride them out’. If you or a ...
The following list covers most of the symptoms of asbestos. Not all asbestos sufferers have all these symptoms: Developing a dry cough that becomes persistent Wheezing Becoming short of breath A pain in the chest or shoulders Extreme tiredness Loss of appetite/weight loss Chest tightness Clubbing (thickening) of the fingers ...
Pleural plaques are another type of asbestos condition. These are lesions of scar tissue on the lining of the rib cage and are caused by asbestos exposure. They tend to appear between five and thirty years after exposure. They do not usually cause lung impairment or inconvenience. Neither does their ...
There are four main types of asbestos disease: Mesothelioma Asbestos Lung Cancer Asbestosis Pleural thickening.
The simple answer is that ‘no’ they weren’t. Alternatively, if they were provided with masks, they proved totally unsuitable. However, in the case of almost all the asbestos claims Mooneerams asbestos disease solicitor partners have dealt with, the evidence is that those who were exposed to asbestos were not provided ...
Asbestos disease is caused by inhaling the dust or fibres given off by asbestos when it is worked on. When asbestos is cut, torn, sawn or otherwise worked with, asbestos fibres are released into the air. As asbestos was worked on to make it suitable for the particular job in ...
People were dying from asbestos exposure, in large numbers. There is a long time lag between being exposed to asbestos and symptoms presenting themselves – and we mean a long time lag (known as the latency period). It can be anything between 10 and 60 years from exposure to symptoms ...
In 1985, amosite (brown asbestos) and crocidolite (blue asbestos) were banned from being imported and used. In 1999, the use and import of chrysotile (white asbestos), was prohibited. The final ban made the manufacture and supply of all asbestos based products illegal.
