Winterbothams Solicitors

Winterbothams Solicitors

Winterbothams Solicitors

Posted on: February 19, 2012 - 10:47 am
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A personal injury lawyer who has dedicated his life to campaigning for compensation for asbestos victims today mesothelioma claims that a new High Court Ruling indicates a landmark victory for asbestos victims.

Solicitor and personal injury expert Peter Hankins has given over 30 years of his life to the cause, fighting tooth and nail for the ex-employees of former Chalford-based asbestos firm Fibrecrete and their families.Many became terminally ill after their jobs at the firm brought them into close contact with the dangerous substance. The families of workers at the factory were also put at personal risk through contact with contaminated workers, in addition to facing the pain of losing loved ones.

The case has been ongoing due to the slow appearance of the effects of working with asbestos, which can manifest themselves years later in the form of aggressive cancers.

The latest twist in the rollercoaster trail of legal successes and setbacks comes with this month’s test case judgment defeating insurers, who were reluctant to validate ongoing payouts to ill workers.
“It is a milestone. I feel enormous relief for the families involved,” said Mr Hankins, consultant to Rowcroft solicitors AES Winterbothams.

“This is probably one of the most aggressively fought areas of injury and disease in my professional life,” he said.

“This is also a very important case for Stroud as the lead defendant insurer was BAI and six test case victims defeated the insurers.”

Mr Hankins maintains that the insurer, BAI, had gone along for years with the payouts to the ex employees of Fibrecrete, before arguing in 2007 that the payments should only begin once symptoms of the associated diseases began to manifest themselves.

For many victims, diseases such as mesothelioma and lung cancer which are caused by exposure to the dangerous asbestos particles do not develop until up to 30 years after the original contact, by which point the majority of insurance policies would have expired.