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News Focus - Controversial UK ruling saves insurers "tens of millions of pounds".
(From Reinsurance)
In a controversial ruling, the House of Lords, the UK's highest court of appeal, has decided to cut the amount of asbestos compensation that mesothelioma sufferers and their families receive.
The employers of two men who died of mesothelioma have won an appeal to change the law, with the result that their widows, Sylvia Barker and Mary Murray, will not get full compensation.
Both widows have lost an appeal mounted by their husbands' former employers to change the law because their late husbands had more than one employer and at least one of those no longer exists or was not insured.
Law firm Thompsons said the decision will "deprive thousands of claimants of their full entitlement to compensation for mesothelioma. The law lords' decision follows the defeat of an attempt by insurers to end compensation for mesothelioma sufferers altogether in test cases in 2002. The insurance industry is now likely to save tens of millions of pounds annually."
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