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Victims and insurers await a ruling on pleural plaques

By: Language: English Series: Construction News ; (6958) 16 March 2006, 32(1)Publication details: 2006Subject(s): Summary: Reports on the decision in "Rothwell v Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd and another" ([2006] EWCA Civ 27, unreported), where the CA ruled on public policy grounds that victims of lung scarring caused by asbestos inhalation were not entitled to compensation unless and until cancer itself develops.

Reports on the decision in "Rothwell v Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd and another" ([2006] EWCA Civ 27, unreported), where the CA ruled on public policy grounds that victims of lung scarring caused by asbestos inhalation were not entitled to compensation unless and until cancer itself develops.