Great Britain: a bill to compensate asbestos victims

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14 March 2007 à 17h21

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The Department for Work and Pensions - DWP - proposed, on March 13, a compensation reform for asbestos victims. This proposition plans to broaden the field of people entitled to the compensation and to quicken the compensations granting procedures. (Ref. 070241)
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14 March 2007 à 17h21

Updated on 16 March 2007 à 08h34

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Currently, the legislation in force (the 1979 Workers’ Compensation Act), only people who caught cancer because of exposure to asbestos at work are granted a compensation only, by single payment. The plan is broadening the field of people who can pretend to a State compensation, including :

  • people exposed to asbestos given to their relatives’ activity (notably by contact with the infected overalls);
  • people exposed to asbestos in their environment (for instance living close to a factory using
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