Asbestos & Mesothelioma Claims

• Ashtons is delighted to facilitate payments to two local hospices

  • PostedNovember 25, 2019

  Ashtons Legal is delighted to have been able to pass on to St Clare Hospice in Harlow and St Nicholas Hospice in Bury St Edmunds fees for the cost of...

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• £230,000 settlement for Cambridgeshire mesothelioma sufferer

  • PostedOctober 17, 2019

  Martyn Hayward has obtained a settlement for a Mesothelioma (an asbestos-related disease) sufferer from Cambridgeshire. Martyn, a specialist asbestos-related disease lawyer in our Personal Injury team here at Ashtons Legal,...

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• Council concealed asbestos risk from woman now terminally ill from asbestos cancer

  • PostedAugust 30, 2019

  A former Dagenham woman is terminally ill from an asbestos cancer she contracted from washing her husband’s overalls, after the local council who employed him had told him there was...

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• Ashtons Legal joins forces with Mesothelioma UK

  • PostedJune 27, 2019

  Ashtons Legal are delighted to announce their support for UK charity, Mesothelioma UK. On the back of a close working relationship the firm has had with this charity, Ashtons are...

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• Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme settlement obtained less than three months after diagnosis

  • PostedJune 25, 2019

  Mrs L, a Suffolk lady in her early 70s, was diagnosed with mesothelioma recently having gone to hospital for tests to see whether she had a problem with her statins....

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• Interim payment of £50k for Mesothelioma, 6 months after instruction

  • PostedMay 21, 2019

  Asbestos-related disease specialist solicitor, Martyn Hayward, has obtained a £50k interim payment for a 79 year old man. Mr R is a retired BT Engineer who was diagnosed with mesothelioma...

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• £50k interim payment for secondary exposure to asbestos

  • PostedMay 15, 2019

  Martyn Hayward, an asbestos-related disease specialist solicitor, has secured a £50,000 interim payment for secondary exposure mesothelioma. Mrs D has been diagnosed with asbestos related mesothelioma, which was contracted after...

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• £60,000 obtained for retired carpenter with asbestosis

  • PostedApril 11, 2019

  Phoebe Osborne, an asbestos-related disease claim specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £60,000 for a retired Norfolk carpenter. Mr I, who was exposed to asbestos throughout the early part of...

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• Family of Benfleet man who died of an asbestos cancer pleads with former workmates for information

  • PostedApril 3, 2019

  The family of a Benfleet man who has died of an asbestos-related cancer are pleading with his former workmates to come forward and help them find out how he contracted...

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• Appeal to hospital workers by Norwich woman’s son to find source of asbestos that killed her

  • PostedApril 2, 2019

  The sons of a Norwich woman who was killed by asbestos she probably inhaled whilst working as a hospital cleaner have appealed to her friends and fellow workers to provide...

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• Ashtons Legal successfully concludes claim for former retained Suffolk firefighter

  • PostedFebruary 14, 2019

  Ashtons Legal has secured a substantial provisional damages settlement for Mr Jordan, a retired retained firefighter from Suffolk. Mr Jordan was exposed to asbestos in unprotected conditions during his career...

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• ‘Scandalous’ refusal by hospital to confirm asbestos dangers on grounds of ‘commercial confidentiality’

  • PostedJanuary 28, 2019

  A hospital has refused to reveal whether its patients and staff may be at risk of a deadly asbestos-related disease, on the grounds of ‘commercial confidentiality’. High Wycombe Hospital is...

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