The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Like Scotland, legislation in Northern Ireland will permit recoveries for pleural plaques. The legislation takes effect next week, and is covered in this government press release. The BBC has the story here. A past government memo on the subject is here. Background is here from Herbert Smith, a UK firm on the insurance company side of things.
Issues arising from criminal prosecutions of former managers at an asbestos-cement plant (Everite) are up on appeal, as described in a February 2, 2021 post at the Ban Asbestos Secretariat run by Ms.
Some "toxins" are long-lived, and so decisions made decades ago continue to ripple through current events. A "now in the news" example is the Carolina Asbestos Company in North Carolina. In the first
The Isle of Jersey will be making lump sum mesothelioma payments as a result of citizen requests through an “e-petition,” as described in this 30 September 2019 online article at gov.je.news. Accordin