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A WIFE who lost her husband to asbestos poisoning urged the Government to exempt victims from paying legal costs ahead of a crucial vote.
Marie Hughes watched her husband Phil die a tragic and debilitating death of cancer after coming into contact with the toxic substance at Brymbo Steelworks in his younger years.
Mr Hughes was a former of headteacher of Tanyfron School, near Wrexham, and died at the age of 57 in 2005.
Tomorrow the Government will go through a series of votes on amendments to its controversial Legal Aid Bill which is looking to save millions of pounds.
Part of the legislation, which is being resisted by a proposed amendment, is to make victims of asbestos mesothelioma pay for any legal aid through damages received.
Mrs Hughes, of Coed-y-Glyn, Wrexham, said: “He underwent gruelling, unrelenting and debilitating courses of chemotherapy, intensive radiotherapy and invasive surgery in the form of an EPP (extra pleural pneumonectomy) which involves the removal of a complete lung, half the pericardium and half the diaphragm.
“He lived in constant pain.ŠAll this was a vain attempt to improve the quality and to extend his life.
“The court hearing was pending during the time of my husband’s major surgery.”
A FORMER railway worker died after being exposed to asbestos while fitting carriage brakes.
Ronald Creed, 88, worked in the rail industry for nearly 50 years before his death, an inquest yesterday heard.
In a statement read out in Derby Coroner’s Court, Mr Creed’s son John said his father had started his career in 1938.
He said: “He started at Derby Loco Works in Derby as a machinist. I don’t know if he came into contact with asbestos dust then.
“He moved to work for EW Bliss as a machinist before he retired in 1987.
“I also worked for EW Bliss for 15 years, working on brakes and clutches as he had done, and that probably involved working with asbestos.”
A schoolteacher from Eastbourne was killed by asbestos dust on history books, according to his widow whom is suing Ratton School for £250,000.
After malignant mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs linked to asbestos, killed Susan Becks husband Neville, the widow has decided to launch a legal battle for compensation.
Mrs Beck alleges the cancer was caused by inhaling deadly asbestos dust at the schools in Park Lane. Mr Beck, whom was 71 when he died, was head of history at Ratton School in Eastbourne between 1972 and 1988.
The schoolteachers teaching equipment was kept in a large cupboard which contained two asbestos shelves, according to the High Court writ. Mr Beck usually had to wipe the dust of the books when taking them out of the cupboard and he also worked on a fixed table within another room which was covered in a sheet of asbestos, the writ says.
Father of one Mr Beck first suffered symptoms of mesothelioma, a painful and terminal cancer, around 19 months before his death on April 14 2009.
He developed breathlessness followed by complications with his blood supplies, and underwent various medical procedures. Mr Beck needed much care from his wife in the final months of his life, and lost years of life expectancy, the court will hear.
A wife whom had washed her husband’s asbestos-covered clothes for a decade, died because she was exposed to the deadly dust.
Jill Bolstridge would shake off the dirt from overalls worn by her husband James, who worked at Derby engineering firm S Robinson and Sons, on a weekly basis before putting them in the washing machine.
Jill died of mesothelioma after following the same routine of washing her husband’s clothes for a decade, her husband was not affected.
An inquest heard that Jill, 56, was in good health until last May, when she started to become out of breath. Doctors confirmed that she was suffering from malignant mesothelioma of the pleura, an asbestos-related cancer affecting the lining of the lungs. Jill underwent major surgery.
Jill, died in October, only two days after her family helped her put together a statement of her condition.
After the hearing, her daughter Carla, 22, paid tribute to her mother.
She said: “My mum was a loving, affectionate, warm and a beautifully-giving woman who was always willing to put others before her.”
A devastated husband whose wife died of an asbestos-related cancer has called for more awareness of the disease.
Brenda Foxley, 65, of Elm Grove Drive, Dawlish, is believed to have come into contact with asbestos during her working life as an accounts clerk in Stockport.
She died in Dawlish Hospital on April 11, 2011.
An inquest in Torquay heard how Mrs Foxley regularly visited a factory floor where asbestos lagging was present to deliver wage packets to staff when she worked as an accounts cleric from 1961 to 1967.
The mum of two died just five months after being diagnosed with mesothelioma at the end of 2010.
Coroner Mr Ian Arrow recorded a verdict of death by industrial disease.
Brenda’s distraught husband, Bill, is calling for more awareness, particularly for those whose profession was not directly linked to the deadly substance but could have come into contact with it.
Bill, 72, said: “Brenda was a lovely woman, she was my wife and my best friend. We had been together for 48 years and married for 45 of those.
An Electrician whom was exposed to asbestos on work sites including Cheltenham Ladies’ College has died of an industrial disease, a coroner has confirmed.
Michael McQuire died on October the 5th from pneumonia; the illness was brought on by the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. The 61 year old electrician made a statement before his death saying that he had been exposed to asbestos and asbestos dust; he was exposed in various boiler rooms, including the one at Cheltenham Ladies’ College.
David Dooley, Gloucestershire deputy coroner, said that, Mr. McQuire had a 28 year-history of asbestos exposure. The verdict that malignant mesothelioma had caused his death was supported by his employment history.
In a statement by Mr. McQuire, of the Rudge, in Maisemore, said he had worked as a trainee electrician for a number of companies from 1965 to 1993, when he set up his own business.
The electrician had been exposed the asbestos whilst working alongside plumbers in various boiler houses, he said that, plumbers would cut the lagging piper with hacksaws and there would often be a dusty atmosphere once this was done. He was also often exposed to asbestos whilst drilling into the ceiling for wiring and rewiring jobs.
Victims of asbestos-related cancer and their families are hoping that a Supreme Court case that is due to start will clarify a “complex” area of the law in their fight for damages.
Following a Court of Appeal ruling in October 2010 lawyers said many victims faced more “confusion and uncertainty” over who can be compensated and it was now a matter of “pot luck”.
Five Supreme Court justices, headed by the court’s president Lord Phillips, will now hear appeals arising out of six separate test case actions over eight days.
The proceedings will centre on the question of when liability is “triggered” – either at the time of exposure to asbestos or at the onset of symptoms.
Insurers won a partial victory in the 2010 Court of Appeal ruling which found that only some sufferers could recover damages for the injuries they sustained at work decades ago.
The three judges were unable to agree on a High Court ruling given in November 2008 – hailed as a victory for the victims – that employers’ insurers at the time of exposure were liable to pay out on claims for the fatal lung disease mesothelioma caused by exposure to lethal asbestos in the workplace.
A widow has claimed her late policeman husband died from an asbestos-related cancer – which he may have contracted at a Birmingham police station.
Frances Dodd, 73, is now determined to discover how her partner Frank, 73, caught the killer disease which is far more common in industrial workers.
Her late husband joined West Midlands Police in 1956 before retiring in 1990.
Frank first began to suffer symptoms of mesothelioma – a form of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure – in March 2009. He was diagnosed in July 2009 – before dying less than two months later.
Last year the Deputy Coroner for Birmingham, Sarah Elaine Ormond-Walshe, recorded a verdict that Mr Dodd had died as a result of an industrial illness.
Widow Frances, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, said: “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Frank was a policeman, not a factory worker so I don’t understand how he could have got the disease.
Why hopes are particularly high regarding trials of an experimental cancer vaccine which could help people suffering from mesothelioma.
It comes in a tiny tube little bigger than a knuckle but its impact on the lives of many cancer sufferers could be massive.
A possible vaccine which prompts the human body’s immune system to fight the mesothelioma strain of cancer is due to be tested on 26 people later this month. The results of the trials will be monitored by millions of mesothelioma sufferers worldwide.
Mesothelioma is a deadly form of lung cancer often associated with exposure to asbestos. It has no cure and methods of treating it only enjoy limited success.
No win no fee solicitors Claims Direct can help you make a personal injury claim if you are diagnosed with an illness related to contact with asbestos.
Research into the possible new vaccine – which is called TroVax – is being partly funded by the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund (JHMRF).
The ‘About Us’ section of the JHMRF website is written by famous playwright Alan Bennett. Alan’s childhood was connected with June Hancock’s in that both of them hail from Armley in Leeds; the writer’s father managed the butchers just above the J W Roberts factory.
The factory billowed out dust which led directly to the deaths of many local people from mesothelioma.
THE family of a Kidderminster factory worker who died from an asbestos-related cancer wants former workmates to come forward to help continue his battle for justice.
Seventy-five-year-old David Taylor was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer of the chest lining, in March last year and died four months later on July 29.
It is believed Mr Taylor could have been exposed to asbestos dust while working for Fry’s Metals Ltd at their Worcester Road factory in Kidderminster, between 1966 and 1994.
He worked in the factory’s stores but as part of his duties also worked in the foundry where asbestos was present both on the furnaces and within lagging around the pipe work.
The father of three was made redundant from the company in 1994, when the firm moved its operations from the Kidderminster site to Rochdale.
PEOPLE who worked at a factory in Doncaster as long as five decades ago are being urged to come forward as part of an investigation into a former employee who was diagnosed with an asbestos-related cancer.
John Hartley Mason, 77, from Swinton, was diagnosed with cancer of the lung lining, mesothelioma, in March this year and is currently being treated at Rotherham General Hospital.
Solicitors at Irwin Mitchell are now conducting an investigation into working conditions at his former employer Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
Mr Mason worked for ICI, which was based on Wheatley Hall Road in Doncaster, between 1966 to 1967 and again between 1974 and 1975 as a fitter in the Draw Twist Department.
Irwin Mitchell claimed it is believed he was exposed to asbestos during these two periods when others were performing maintenance work on the steam pipes which ran through the premises and which were lagged with asbestos.
The law firm are now appealing for anyone who worked at the firm in the 1960s or 70s to come forward as witnesses as they attempt to establish the levels of asbestos exposure to Mr Mason during his time at the company.
A RETIRED engineer who had worked in a “asbestos-dust filled” factory has died from malignant mesothelioma.
Michael Keily, who was an apprentice at Derby Locomotive Works in the 1950s, died at Royal Derby Hospital in April.
A coroner has now ruled that Mr Keily, of Newbold Close, Chellaston, died from an industrial disease.
The 78-year-old went to hospital with abdominal problems.
A post-mortem examination found that he had malignant mesothelioma – an asbestos-related cancer.
In a statement read out at Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner’s Court, John Selby, who had worked at Derby Locomotive Works with Mr Keily, said: “Many of the jobs involved working with white and blue asbestos.
It’s well known that exposure to asbestos causes lung cancer, but there have been suspicions that it could also be linked with ovarian cancer. Now, researchers have shown that there is indeed a causal association between asbestos exposure and ovarian cancer.
Over the years, there have been several suggestions that asbestos might be a risk factor in ovarian cancer on top of links to lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis. A working group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently concluded there is sufficient evidence for a causal association, and now a study led by Leslie Stayner, from the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, US, confirms it.
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