Asbestos - Personal Injury
Asbestos Related Disorders
There are three main types of asbestos white asbestos (chrysotile) brown asbestos (amosite), and blue asbestos (crocidolite). All of these three types of asbestos have been directly associated with lung disease both non-cancerous and cancerous.
Here at Attwood Solicitors, we can help you receive the compensation that you deserve, we have a specialist team who deal only with compensation claims for asbestos related disease.
Frequently found in a variety of building materials asbestos has been used predominantly for insulation and also as a fire retardant. It is mostly found these days in older homes in roof shingles, millboard, textured paints, coating materials, pipes, furnaces and floor tiles.
What are the types of asbestos-related lung disease?
Lung disease from exposure to asbestos can be divided into three main types: 1) asbestosis, 2) disease of the lining of the lung (pleura), and 3) lung cancer.
- Asbestosis is a process of widespread scarring of the lungs.
- Disease of the lining of the lungs, called the pleura, has a variety of signs and symptoms and is the result of inflammation and the hardening (calcification) and/or thickening of the lining tissue.
- Lung cancer, either of the internal portions of the lungs or the outer lining (pleura).
All of the commonly available commercial forms of asbestos have been linked to cancerous and non-cancerous lung disease.
Asbestos-related lung disease occurred at very high rates toward the middle of the 20th century, when patients who were exposed decades earlier to asbestos eventually developed disease. British asbestos workers were among the first who were observed to have lung cancer related to asbestos.
You may be eligble to claim if you have been exposed to asbestos while working, Some workers have been exposed to high concentrations of asbestos in:
- Mines
- Mills or Factories
- Automotive Repair
- Boiler Making
- Construction Industry
- Pipefitting
- Launderers of asbestos-containing clothing.
Continuing sources of exposure are asbestos removal and general construction industries. The delay between exposure to asbestos and the development of cancer is generally 20 or more years.
The number of deaths from asbestosis has increased over the past two decades, but is believed to have plateaued due to increased awareness of the risks.
In order to qualify for compensation from an asbestos related disease a personal injury claim must be started within three years from the date that the client who is suffering from an asbestos related condition is diagnosed as such. In the case where the claim is because of a fatality resulting from such a disease the claim must commence no later than 3 years after the clients death or within three years that the deceased's family became aware that the fatality was asbestos related from a Coroner's Inquest or a post mortem examination.
For these reasons it is important that legal advice about making a claim is sought without delay.
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