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		<title>Pleural Plaques compensation – Association of Personal Injury Lawyers responds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APIL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[asbestos disease compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asbestosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Personal Injury Lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Straw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[APIL disappointed by government decision following pleural plaques consultation
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has reacted with disappointment following the publication of the Government’s decision that people diagnosed with the asbestos-related condition Pleural Plaques did not qualify for personal injuries compensation, except in exceptional circumstances. The findings from the long-running consultation were published late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widow of Policeman who died from asbestos disease makes successful compensation claim</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/widow-of-policeman-who-died-from-asbestos-disease-makes-successful-compensation-claim</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asbestos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asbestos disease compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Symptoms developed over 40 years after initial exposure
A widow whose husband, a retired policeman, died from an asbestos-related disease has made a successful compensation claim against the firm he worked for as a 16-year old engineering apprentice.
Mrs B’s claim, which was conducted by another firm of solicitors unrelated to Camps, shows just how long some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos exposure in school leads to £240,000 in compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/school-asbestos-exposure-compensation-claim</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/school-asbestos-exposure-compensation-claim#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accidents in schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asbestos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asbestos disease compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Knowsley woman wins High Court battle for mesothelioma compensation
A woman from Liverpool has been awarded nearly a quarter of a million pounds compensation after she developed the asbestos related cancer Mesothelioma.  The woman, Mrs W, had been exposed to brown asbestos in the ceiling tiles of the secondary school she attended in the 1970’s.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£52,000 compensation for mesothelioma sufferer who made a claim using new government legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/52000-compensation-for-mesothelioma-sufferer-who-made-a-claim-using-new-government-legislation</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/52000-compensation-for-mesothelioma-sufferer-who-made-a-claim-using-new-government-legislation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the BBC news website, a young father from County Durham has received £52,000 compensation after contracting mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos.  County Durham County Council said the man made his claim with the help of MacMillan Cancer Support, using a new piece of government legislation, the Child Maintenance and Other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpenters at greatest risk of asbestos related cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/carpenters-at-greatest-risk-of-asbestos-related-cancer</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/carpenters-at-greatest-risk-of-asbestos-related-cancer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Research UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If ever a reminder was needed of the damaging impact exposure to asbestos has had on industrial workers in the UK, it came in the form of new research published in the British Journal of Cancer recently.  Funded by Cancer Research UK and the Health and Safety Executive, the largest global study of its kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nowhere to be found?  APIL proposes new employers insurance database to solve tricky problem of tracing insurance policies in workplace injury claims</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/nowhere-to-be-found-apil-proposes-new-employers-insurance-database-to-solve-tricky-problem-of-tracing-insurance-policies-in-workplace-injury-claims</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Personal Injury Lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, APIL, along with support groups representing sufferers of asbestos related diseases, has called on the government to establish a compulsory national database of employers’ liability insurance policies.  The database is seen as the solution to the problem of tracing the relevant insurers when making a claim for industrial disease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government allows asbestos disease victims to keep full compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/government-allows-asbestos-disease-victims-to-keep-full-compensation</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/government-allows-asbestos-disease-victims-to-keep-full-compensation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pneumoconiosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turner & Newell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government has announced it is scrapping a controversial plan to deduct compensation paid out to former employees of a car parts manufacturer who developed asbestos related diseases after being exposed at work.   Ex-workers at Turner &#038; Newell, an American owned company with several factories in Britain, faced having some of their compensation taken off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Irish workers call for pleural plaques compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/northern-irish-workers-call-for-pleural-plaques-compensation</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/northern-irish-workers-call-for-pleural-plaques-compensation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Personal Injury Lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House of Lords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleural Plaques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Parliament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Legal and Medical magazine has reported on a new development in the ongoing legal wrangles over compensation for pleural plaques sufferers which has taken place in Northern Ireland.  Lawyers acting on behalf of some of those affected by their exposure to asbestos have called for the Executive to launch a consultation into the issue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos hotspots named by Health and Safety Executive</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/asbestos-hotspots-named-by-health-and-safety-executive</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/asbestos-hotspots-named-by-health-and-safety-executive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asbestosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plymouth, Leeds and Warrington have been named and shamed as the country’s top three asbestos disease hotspots in new figures released by the Health and Safety Executive this month.  The statistics revealed that areas of heavy industry, such as the dockyards at Plymouth, have far higher rates of asbestos related diseases than the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman sues Knowsley council for exposure to asbestos at school</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/woman-sues-knowsley-council-for-exposure-to-asbestos-at-school</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/woman-sues-knowsley-council-for-exposure-to-asbestos-at-school#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Camps Solicitors were interested to read about the case of a 48 year old woman from Merseyside who has launched a lawsuit against her local council for exposing her to asbestos whilst she was at school in the 1970’s, causing her to develop the fatal asbestos related cancer mesothelioma.  The case against the local council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courts rule in favour of asbestos victims</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/courts-rule-in-favour-of-asbestos-victims</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/courts-rule-in-favour-of-asbestos-victims#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from Friday’s blog, we here at Camps were pleased to hear that the High Court in London had ruled in favour of asbestos-related disease sufferers in six test cases against insurance companies who were refusing to pay up.  Asbestos-related disease is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK, so it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestosis Victims await Courts Ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/asbestosis-victims-await-courts-ruling</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/asbestosis-victims-await-courts-ruling#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asbestosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camps Solicitors are closely watching developments in the High Court in London today.  Some of Britain’s most senior judges are due to deliver a verdict in a case that could have implications for asbestos-related cancer victims and their families.
The central issue in today’s case relates to when an insurance company becomes liable to pay out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon &#8211;  Faster Compensation for Mesothelioma Sufferers</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/coming-soon-faster-compensation-for-mesothelioma-sufferers</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/coming-soon-faster-compensation-for-mesothelioma-sufferers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government’s new Mesothelioma Scheme 2008 started accepting claims last week, promising faster payments for the victims of this fatal asbestos related disease. The news will be particularly welcome for the estimated 600 people each year who do not currently receive government compensation. It is estimated that payments during the first 2 years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleural Plaques Compensation &#8211;  But only in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/pleural-plaques-compensation-but-only-in-scotland</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/pleural-plaques-compensation-but-only-in-scotland#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House of Lords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleural Plaques]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hot topics that we have been following at Camps Solicitors is the compensation of people suffering from pleural plaques. In the past, if you were unfortunate enough to contract pleural plaques, then you would be able to claim compensation, usually from the owners of the building you were in when you were [...]]]></description>
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