A recent report showed Prime Minister Gordon Brown is ready to make your support known in the asbestos-related disease pleural plaques.
It is expected that the decision will be clarified in April.
The main stumbling block is that insurers are unhappy to pay compensation for a disease which, according to them shows little or no symptoms. That may be true, but facts are diagnosed with pleural plaques are likely to cause suffering mental torture, because the company is an indication that the asbestos exposure has taken place. With this in mind it may well be the calling card for more serious asbestos-related diseases, such as pleural thickening, asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Ignoring the mental effort of those diagnosed with pleural plaques suffer unacceptable and irresponsible, two qualities that should not be associated with the insurance companies.
Perhaps of responsibility lies mainly to the shareholders, but with the proviso that it is paid to protect.
So let us hope the government see sense and re-claim the UK wide.
In Scotland, it is possible to seek compensation for pleural plaques after a large majority in Holyrood, but this does not apply in England and Wales.
The campaign appears to have received a positive result, a 'postcode lottery' for this type of disease looks set to be completed.
is not known at this stage, if the fee will be through the individual claim or by the scheme.
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