According to the UK Health and Safety Exec, over 3,000 people die in our country every year as a result of illnesses caused by exposure to asbestos. For victims of these debilitating and often terminal diseases there must be two priorities: medical care and consultation with a compensation lawyer who can help ensure that victims of asbestos and their families are taken care of financially.

Many a compensation lawyer and victims’ rights groups have long been expressing their fears that not enough victims are made aware of the compensation available to them, or are not being diagnosed in time to make a claim. Unfortunately, thirty or forty years have often passed before it becomes apparent that the asbestos has affected an individual’s health. Many victims are already ageing when symptoms become apparent, so often make the mistake of assuming general old age is to blame, delaying diagnosis and reducing the amount of time they have left to make a claim.

Compensation lawyers and victim campaigners are therefore calling for increased availability of information on signs and symptoms to look out for for those people who were exposed to asbestos in their working life. In the days before the dangers of asbestos were known, it was used in various industries, so thousands of employees were exposed to its dust, which was inhaled. Tiny fibres of asbestos dust lead to the progressive rigidifying of the lung lining, causing disease, notably the most serious: Mesothelioma.

This terminal lung cancer will often kill victims in less than two years from diagnosis. It is therefore important that victims take legal advice from a compensation lawyer after getting the appropriate medical attention.

Compensation lawyers in this area are well trained to approach matters with a great deal of sensitivity, whilst ensuring that victims obtain the compensation to which they are entitled.

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