Industrial Disease Compensation - How We Can Help You
Our Solicitors are specialists in industrial disease, with extensive experience in a wide range of all cases, you can be sure that we will always act in your best interests
Have You Been Diagnosed With An Industrial Illness?
If you have been diagnosed with an illness or condition caused by your past or present working conditions, you should seek legal advice from an experienced lawyer at the earliest opportunity.
There are time limits for making an industrial disease compensation claim. Usually this would be three years from the date of diagnosis, with few exceptions
How And When Were You Exposed?
It is important for us to know how and when you were exposed to a hazardous substance, in order for your solicitor to establish who was to blame. We also need to investigate and identify the hazard responsible. Your exposure may have occurred at more than one place of employment for example, or perhaps many years ago.
Try to collate the details of your employment history and the work you did in each job, as this will be helpful in pursuing your claim. If you are still in contact with any colleagues that can act as witnesses to your exposure, this may also be useful
Can Your Employer Be Held Responsible?
Employers are required to reduce assess the risk and then eliminate it or failing that, control or reduce the risk of harm to their employees as far as is reasonably possible. This includes, as a last resort, providing adequate protection from any hazardous substances in the workplace if avoiding its use altogether does not prove practicable. If your employer failed to provide sufficient measures for example, and you developed an industrial disease as a result, it is likely they could be held responsible.
In most cases, a claim can be made against an injured person's current or former employer/s. Sometimes the responsible employer may no longer be in business, however it is often possible to trace an existing insurer for the company and make a claim through them.
Our Solicitors have extensive experience in recovering compensation for industrial disease victims, so can use their expertise to explore every possible method of making your claim.
How Much Compensation Might You Receive?
At The Legal Line, our aim is to maximise the amount of compensation that you will receive. Various factors are taken into account when an award of compensation is calculated, including:
- The pain and suffering of the affected individual
- Disability
- Any financial losses (for example loss of earnings and pension rights)
- Costs of care, transportation, housing modifications and services
- Any other expenses that are related to the illness
- Loss of employability
The aim of compensation is to put you in a position financially as though you had never developed an industrial disease. Therefore past, present and future losses are all taken into consideration.
You will receive 100% of the compensation awarded; our lawyers do not make any deduction
