Pressure grows on Government over pleural plaques decision

The Government admission that they may yet legislate to provide justice for workers who developed pleural plaques through exposure to asbestos has been welcomed by unions.

Pleural plaques is scarring to the back of the lungs caused by prolonged exposure to asbestos. Although the scarring and damage to the body is regarded as “symptonless”, people who have pleural plaques are far more likely to develop the fatal lung cancer mesothelioma.

In October last year the Law Lords overtur... (454 more words)

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