Simon v. W B Realisations Limited
Peter Williams
acted for Simon who contracted Mesothelioma. He worked for a company
called Wild Barfield Limited between or around 1969-1978 and he
remembered that in 1972 the company was taken over by Senior
Engineering (Thermal) Limited who employed him from then on.
He worked at their factory in Otterspool Way in Watford,
Hertfordshire. The company manufactured electric gas high
frequency furnaces for heat treatment metal. The furnaces
were used to harden and soften metal and he was a “muffler”
assembler. He had to cut soft asbestos sheets and hard
asbestos sheets called Sindanyo with a “tinciloa” saw, which was a
hand-held saw. He then placed the soft asbestos sheet in the
furnaces to line them and then drilled the hard asbestos sheets
over the top. He had no warnings about the dangers of
asbestos or any masks or protective equipment.
The company Wild Barfield Limited was no
longer in existence and we therefore needed to know the identity of
the Employers’ Liability Insurers who were on risk at the time of
Simon’s employment, as there was no paymaster. Often this is
a difficult and time-consuming process which is not always
successful.
Michael Osborne had previously made a
successful claim against a similar company known as Wild Barfield
Electric Furnaces Limited some years ago. This was recorded
on our databases. In this case, Mr Williams was able to look
at past correspondence from the previous case where Norwich Union
accepted that they were the Employers’ Liability Insurers.
The case was settled for full value within five months of being
instructed. We have a computerised database of more than
1,700 companies and their insurers – almost anyone we have ever
identified or sued – which often enables us to find the right
company and insurer within minutes of being instructed.
For further information or if you have a
mesothelioma claim please call Peter Williams on 020 7861
4825 or email peter.williams@ffw.com.
You can discuss your mesothelioma claim
with any member of our mesothelioma
team on freephone 0800 358 3848, email
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