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Leading the way in securing compensation for charitable hospices

08 June 2009

Between 1978 and 1986 Roger Wrench breathed significant quantities of asbestos when employed as a boiler man fitter by International Computers Ltd. In 2007 he contracted mesothelioma . On 30 Ma...

£325,000 damages and admission of negligence secured in Erb’s Palsy case

04 June 2009

Samantha Critchley , Partner in our medical negligence claims team, has won £325,000 for a young man who suffered a serious brachial plexus injury ( Erb’s Palsy ) during his birth. ...

Lung cancer proven to be caused by asbestos in heavy smoker

02 June 2009

We have won £84,000 in compensation for Mr B, a 67 year old man from Hayes who contracted lung cancer after being exposed to asbestos dust when working as a labourer for Cape Building Product...

Father dies from chicken pox after string of hospital failures

01 June 2009

Paul McNeil won a substantial sum of compensation for the widow of a 38 year old man who died from chicken pox related pneumonia after doctors repeatedly failed to diagnose and treat his co...

Architect recovers compensation for mesothelioma caused by work on Government housing

01 June 2009

An architect contracted mesothelioma from breathing in asbestos whilst working for the Government on a new brand of housing in the late 1960s. In one of his first jobs Mr W, ...