FFW reaches £100 million pounds total compensation for asbestos victims
21 August 2006
The Personal
Injury Practice at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP (FFW) has
announced that the amount of compensation the firm has won for
victims of asbestos-related diseases has reached the £100 million
mark.
Since forming in 1983, the Asbestos
Compensation Practice at FFW, headed by personal injury
partner, Rodney
Nelson-Jones, has won compensation for over 1,700 victims of
asbestos-related diseases and their families.
Asbestos-related disease affects thousands of people in the UK
each year. The damage caused by exposure to asbestos varies
in severity. Over the years FFW have successfully fought for
compensation for victims of mesothelioma, (an asbestos-related
tumour on the lining of the lungs or abdomen), asbestos related
lung cancer, asbestosis (scarring of the lungs) and asbestos
pleural disease (affecting the lining of the lungs).
Although asbestos-related disease more commonly affects asbestos
factory workers, those working in the shipping industry and
labourers, over the years FFW has also acted on behalf of
professionals such as doctors, nurses and teachers who have been
exposed to asbestos through their work. Those who live near
asbestos factories have also been affected, as have the families of
those working with asbestos (through exposure to their clothing)
and even hairdressers who regularly cut the hair of asbestos
factory workers.
Over the last 23 years FFW’s Asbestos
Compensation Practice has grown to six lawyers, all
specialising in working to win compensation for victims of
asbestos. In 2002, head of the practice, Rodney Nelson-Jones was
awarded the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers’ Award for
Outstanding Achievement for his work in the field.
Rodney
Nelson-Jones, personal injury
lawyer at FFW, comments: “We have been working on asbestos cases
for the last 23 years and I am delighted that in that time we have
been able to win compensation for so many victims of these terrible
diseases. Although the dangers associated with asbestos were first
recognised back in 1930, we are still seeing an increased number of
people suffering as a result of their exposure to asbestos
dust. Mesothelioma, which can be caused by only small amounts
of asbestos, causes around 2000 deaths in the UK each year. It is
vital that sufferers and their families receive the compensation
they deserve. ”
For more details or comment please contact:
Rodney Nelson-Jones (020 7861 4022) Field Fisher Waterhouse
LLP.
Peter Williams (020 7861 4825) Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP.
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