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Personal injury compensation has been paid to the family of a man who died from asbestos cancer as a result of exposure to the substance while working as a railwayman in Oxford during the 1940s.
According to the family’s industrial illness solicitor, personal injury compensation of £98,000 was paid by man’s former employer, in addition to sums for costs associated with the asbestos claim.
The solicitor commented, “We were able to establish that... death was caused by asbestos during his employment at the Oxford works.
"Boilers of locomotives were coated with thick asbestos and asbestos was also used over the pipes and cylinders of the engines.
"As a cleaner and fireman, [the deceased man] would have been exposed to this."
The man was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2005 after complaining of multiple symptoms but died in July 2006 at the age of 74.
Due to the swift onset of mesothelioma personal injury compensation claims for the disease are frequently paid posthumously to the families of those affected.