Miners with VWF 'will miss out on compensation'

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• Irwin Mitchell Solicitors

A key High Court ruling has this week shattered hopes of compensation for many North East miners with Vibration White Finger (VWF).

Roger Maddocks, partner and industrial disease specialist at Newcastle personal injury law firm Irwin Mitchell, says aspects of the way the Government handles the British Coal VWF Claims Handling Arrangement (CHA) have meant scores of former miners, many elderly, in the North East are missing out on compensation.

Maddocks said many former miners who have had th... (308 more words)

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