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Asbestos Claims Lawyers Look to the Future

On Tuesday 30 October Andrew Morgan . Partner in Field Fisher Waterhouse's Asbestos Claims Department, chaired a meeting of the Occupational Health Group of the Association of Personal Injury ...

House of Lords ruling on pleural plaques

This morning the Law Lords ruled that pleural plaques is not a disease, so sufferers should not be awarded compensation. This decision will affect thousands of people with pleural plaques now and ...

FSCS pays out compensation following pressure from law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse

The government’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has finally agreed to pay out compensation to a group of workers suffering from asbestos related diseases, following pressure...

Personal injury annual update published

Rodney Nelson-Jones , Personal Injury solicitor at Field Fisher Waterhouse, has published Personal Injury Damages Statistics 2007, which provides personal injury lawyers with all the basic st...

More benefits for asbestos victims

From 6 April the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), through Job Centre Plus, recognises a new category of prescribed disease for the purposes of awards of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benef...