This is an aggressive cancer almost exclusively caused by asbestos. It can develop after even transient or minimal asbestos exposure.
It is a cancer usually of the lung, but often also of the digestive system.
Asbestos fibres lodge and irritate the lining of the lungs or the digestive system for many years and eventually cancer can develop. Mesothelioma can take anywhere between 15 and 60 years after exposure to asbestos, to develop. About 10 years after the cancer starts, it reaches a size where it causes clear symptoms and can be easily diagnosed.
The Courts nowadays recognise how important it is for a person with mesothelioma to have their case dealt with urgently. It is therefore possible for a case to be successfully concluded within six months.
THE LEGAL ISSUES
In bringing a claim on your behalf to try to obtain compensation for you if you have contracted mesothelioma, we have to demonstrate that you have had at least some transient exposure to asbestos caused by an individual or organisation which should have taken steps to prevent your exposure to that asbestos.
In many cases, the companies concerned have long-since stopped trading and cannot be found. Just because a company has ceased trading though it does not mean you cannot bring a claim. Instead, when companies have ceased trading we need to identify the appropriate insurance companies or individuals against whom to bring your claim.
As we say above, a long time can pass between exposure to asbestos and the development of mesothelioma, so in putting your case together we have to look very carefully at your working life so we can see at which times - and there may have been a number of them - you were exposed to asbestos. We need to take a very careful and as detailed as possible a witness statement from you to hopefully show which company or companies were responsible for your exposure to asbestos.
The approximate year or years of your exposure to asbestos are very important as different industries and different employers came to understand the dangers of asbestos at different times.
HOW MUCH IS YOUR CLAIM WORTH?
Compensation for mesothelioma ranges between £50,000 and £80,000. In addition, compensation is paid to meet any financial expenses - past or future - to compensate your loved ones for the care provided to you and to replace lost income or pension provision that you have suffered as a result of this condition. A separate payment of compensation can also be claimed for the surviving spouse in any case where a husband or wife has passed away. Most compensation awards in mesothelioma cases exceed £150,000.
Completely free of charge, our Industrial Disease team will willingly talk to you about your case and about your circumstances. They will answer any questions that you have. They will advise you on whether you have a claim, on what you would need to prove to progress a claim, and on what compensation you might be entitled to receive.
If you do have a claim, our Industrial Disease team would be delighted to help you to bring that claim. If we do, we will do that free of any cost to you.
Please do not hesitate to contact us now so that we can help you obtain, at no cost to you, compensation to help in as far as money can, to provide for you and your family as soon as possible.
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