Medical News Summary: Damages award for mesothelioma death reversed

About: Damages award for mesothelioma death reversed
Date: 26 January 2005
Source: News Scotsman
Author: Stephen Howard
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by News Scotsman): An 82,000 pound damages award was reversed in the Court of Appeal today. The award was for the wife of a boilermaker who allegedly died from mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure while washing her husband’s clothes. She died before the case was heard but her husband continued the fight. This award reversal will have implication on other such cases of secondary exposure to asbestos.
URL: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4049484
Related Disease Topics: Mesothelioma

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