Widower loses £82,000 damages for wife’s asbestos death

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A former shipyard worker whose wife died from an asbestos cancer has been stripped of his £82,000 compensation payout.

James Maguire's wife Teresa, 67, contracted mesothelioma through secondary exposure to asbestos dust on his work clothes. The Appeal Court ruled this week that Harland and Wolff, which owned the ship-repair yard in Liverpool which employed Mr Maguire as a boilermaker in the 1960s, was not legally liable for Mrs Maguire's death.

She died in May 2004, just weeks after the Hi... (111 more words)

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