Will compensation for pleural plaques be stopped?

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• Thompsons Solicitors

A long-awaited appeal to the Law Lords to reinstate compensation for sufferers of asbestos-related condition, pleural plaques, will be heard next week.

The House of Lords will hear arguments from Unite (Amicus section) and its lawyers Thompsons Solicitors during the week-long session starting on Monday 25 June.

Unite (Amicus section) are appealing against a Court of Appeal ruling made in March 2006, which stopped compensation being paid to those with pleural plaques.

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