Asbestos claim help please

D4nny

benniebert wrote: »

Sorry you are too late to make a claim. I know that it seems wrong, but many many cases go without anybody taking action to secure a financial future.
My daughter lost a son due to medical incompetence at the local hospital. They admitted to her that they should have realised earlier what was wrong, but the chain of command broke down and messages/reports were never passed on. He died needlessly. It took her years to come to terms with her loss. Eventually she felt that it wasn't her fault but that of the hospital. She approached a well respected firm of solicitors that dealt with clinical negligence. She hoped that with the compensation she felt that she was entitled to she would donate it to a charity to help other parents in the same position. Unfortunately the solicitors told her that she had left it too late to do anything. She now suffers from the guilt of not fighting hard enough for what her son would have wanted to have happened. Sad story but it is only one of many that get left by the wayside.

gosh thats an awful story it really is,i dont understand why you only get 3 years after diagnosis ect and as stated this info was withheld from my parents untill after this time and my parents still didnt/dont have a leg to stand on.

D4nny

mad_spaniel wrote: »

It might be worth checking the industrial injuries benefit route. This is a weekly paid benefit from the Govt if assessment is above a certain threshold. The 3 year rule relates to civil compensation claims not a claim for IIDB which can be made at any time. the IIDB route just has a limitation on backdating and the weekly amounts paid are way lower than a civil payout which can be thousands.
http://www.pkc.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=19670&p=0
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/360297/bi100pd_print.pdf

brill thankyou for your help.

D4nny

lisaf wrote: »

Hi D4nny,

my dad had mesothelioma (not sure if that's the same as your Dad's condition but it was caused by asbestosis).
He unfortunately passed away 12 years ago and didn't get time to claim himself.
I really don't think you are too late to claim as I tried very recently and the only reason I couldn't progress was because my Dad's death cert said that he's died of hear failure and didn't actually name 'mesothelioma'.
He had been given 2 years at diagnosis but 2 weeks after that he had an op to relieve the symptoms but due to his condition his heart couldn't withstand the op so he passed away 1 week later thus them putting 'heart failure' on the certificate.
I will try and get the info for who I contacted recently about it but I'm sure it was a government body of some sort.

Lisa x

hi lisa
sorry to hear about this,im not sure wich condition my dad has off the top off my head,if you could find the info sometime that would be brilliant if you wouldnt mind id really appeciate this.

danny