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Asbestos Compensation Awards:

MESOTHELIOMA COMPENSATION: 
ASBESTOSIS: PLEURAL THICKENING 
RECENT SUCCESSFUL ASBESTOS CLAIMS
 
"We would both like to say thanks for all your help, support and compassion in dealing with the case. You made the process very easy for us and we appreciate your kindness."
 
 
Occupation
Defendant name
Years exposure
Damages awarded

Fitter’s mate

How Investment Limited (formerly 
Frogatt & Prior Limited

1954-6
1958-61

£98,007

Labourer/forklift truck operative

BRB (Residuary) Limited

1976-87

£130,669

Carpenter

John Laing Construction Limited,
John Laing plc

1961-69

£95,000

Electrician

Granada Television Limited

1973-96

£135,408

Labourer

Cementation Company Limited

1968-72

£87,750

Labourer/boiler cleaner

National Grid plc

1957-65

£112,000

Merchant seaman

Houlder Brothers & Co Limited
Furness Withy (Shipping) Limited

1970s-80s

£3,250

Chemist

Magnox Electric plc

1959-75

£12,500

Mechanical fitter/
apprentice 
mechanical fitter

National Grid plc

1955-71

£36,000

Docker

C J King & Sons Limited

1970-79

£75,000

Carpenter/
joiner

Parnall & Sons Limited

1945-52
1954-91

£100,000

Shipwright

Ministry of Defence

1963-69

£150,000

Heating and 
ventilation 
engineer

Haden Young Limited, 
G N Haden Limited, 
Haden Building Limited

1964-71

£200,787

Plant attendant/boiler operator

CEGB, 
Magnox Electric

1969-76

£444,135

Merchant Navy 
Deck Officer

Stuntbrand Mail Steamship 
Company Limited (formerly 
Union Castle Mail 
Steamship Limited)

1950s

£112,131

Merchant Navy 
Deck Officer

Stuntbrand Mail Steamship 
Company Limited (formerly 
Union Castle Mail 
Steamship Limited)

1952-62

£12,000

Lagger’s mate

Cape Insulation Limited

1960-61

£155,607

Telephone engineer

BT plc

1942-1988

£170,000

Telephone engineer

BT plc

1956-1992

£130,000

Telephone engineer

BT plc

1952-1983

£187,607

T.V. Producer

Granada Television Limited

1968-88

£250,000

Plant attendant/ 
refractory brick 
layer

Datadeep Limited (formerly R B 
Hilton Limited)

1959-64

£195,942

Plant attendance/utility worker

Rio Tinto Metals Limited (formerly 
National Smelting Company 
Limited)

1959-64

£59,000

Laundry worker

Unilever Best Foods Limited

1964-1966

£66,000

Apprentice electrician

Haden Young Limited (formerly 
Troughton & Young)

1956-59

£217,102

Foreman

Simons of Lincoln Limited
Simons Development Limited
Simons Construction Limited

1962-64 
1968-79

£171,000

Lorry driver

A J Anstey

Late 1960s
early 1970s

£213,825

Apprentice

Imperial Chemical Industries plc

1956-58

£62,500

Carpenter

Walter Llewellyn & Sons Limited

1973-76

£17,000

Boiler man

Rolls-Royce plc
Bristol Siddely Engines Limited


£20,000

Joiner - shipbuilding

Vickers Defence Systems Limited 
(formerly Vickers-Armstrong 
(Shipbuilders) Limited)

1959-1965

£80,000

Shipyard worker/
carpenter

Hard Rock Café (Edinburgh) Limited 
(formerly Butlins Limited
Harland & Wolff

1955-1962

£68,000

Boilerman/
maintenance engineer

Tooks Limited (formerly Tooks 
Bakers)

1969-1990

£130,000

Carpenter/joiner

Extraguard Limited (formerly WC 
Youngman Limited)

1971-1975

£130,151

Apprentice fitter - boilers

Wright Brothers (Sheffield) Limited
Wright Brothers Partnership Limited

1955-1960

£186,371

Lagger’s mate

Dicks Eagle Insulations Limited

1960-1961

£110,000

Fitter’s mate

Powergen UK plc

1950s-1960s

£112,500

Boiler maintenance

NRG Group UK Limited (formerly 
Gestetner)

1967-83

£55,034

Power station
employee

Powergen UK plc

1965-1968

£200,000

Factory worker

Avon Industrial Polymers 
(Bradford-on-Avon) Limited

1946-1964

£10,000

Merchant Navy
Deck Officer

Stuntbrand Mail Steamship 
Company Limited (formerly 
Union Castle Mail 
Steamship Company Limited)

1957-1965

£116,000

Fitter's mate/
fitter and welder

British Sugar plc

1948-1981

£6,000

Power station
employee

RWE Npower plc

1965-1968

£115,000

Labourer/
industrial 
fireman

ICI plc

1968-1987

£112,000

Lagger’s mate

Spousal Midlands Limited 
(formerly Joseph Nadin 
Limited)

1954-1956

£100,000

Merchant Navy
Marine Engineer

Palm Line Limited

1961,
1964-5

£175,000

Car mechanic

Whites of Bridgwater Limited 
(formerly A. & S. White Limited)

1972-75

£170,178

Asbestos factory
employee/heavy
moulder

Plumefern Limited (formerly 
Universal Asbestos Manufacturing 
Company

1961-69

£132,500

Labourer

Parnall & Sons Limited

1972-3

£195,369

Joiner/carpenter

Parnall & Sons Limited
Wilkins & Coventry Limited

1954-early
1970s

£160,000

Maintenance 
fitter

St Annes Board Mill Company 
Limited

1972-80

£119,872

Docker

Samuel Williams & Sons Limited

1955-70

£97,500

Sheet metal 
worker

Bristol Metal Components Limited
St Phillips Fabrications Limited

1955-60

£180,000

Heating engineer

Honeywell Limited

1975-90

£240,488

Improver/lagger’s mate

London Covering Company

1958-59

£100,000

Carpenter

Sweatfield Ltd (formerly JT (Bristol)
Ltd) + Royal SunAlliance PLC

1964-67

£16,813

Factory worker

XRI Ltd (formerly Rank Precision 
Industries Ltd)

1956-57

£113,710

Factory worker

T Lucas & Co Ltd

1952-82

£120,000

Factory worker

(1) Bristol Siddley Engines Ltd
(2) Rolls-Royce PLC

1958-83

£71,500

Merchant seaman

Blue Star Line

1961-63

£86,333

Power station 
worker

(1) Cape Darlington Ltd (formerly
The Darlington Insulation Co Ltd)
(2) E.ON UK PLC

1974-75

£135,000

Electrical engineer

South Western Electricity Board (SWEB)

1957-87

£118,000

AGA fitter

Gardiner, Sons & Co Limited

1953-58
1961-68/9

£130,000

Carpenter/joiner

Headway Construction Company Limited

1970-82

£83,344

Wife - secondary
exposure

Emcor Group (UK) PLC (formerly Drake
& Scull Engineering Limited)

Late 1950s - 1971/2

£165,000

Sheet metal worker

(1) National Grid Gas Plc
(2) Kenneth Galletly (formerly t/a 
Stephenson & Galletly)

(1) 1958-61/2
(2) 1966-68/9

£162,000

British Rail 
employee

BRB (Residuary) Limited

1956-62

£137,508

Docker

(1) The Secretary of State for 
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory 
Reform
(2) Warren P S Limited (in liquidation) 
(formerly Charles Hill & Sons Limited)

1957-67

£29,700

British Rail 
employee

BRB (Residuary) Limited

1974/5-1977/8

£148,590

Carpenter

Imperial Tobacco Group Plc

1949-1989

£68,000

Labourer

W G Fisher & Sons (Bristol) Ltd

1961/2

£134,933

Plumber

E J Heating & Engineering Company 
Limited

1977-1986

£19,000

Carpenter/
partitioner

Firmin & Collins Limited

1976

£151,591

Merchant Navy 
Marine Engineer

P&O Bulk Shipping Limited

1957-65/6
1966-69/70

£62,500

Painter/decorator

North Somerset Council

1972-1991

£114,000

Fitter

John Dale Limited

1964-1974

£141,008

Carpenter/
joiner

AMEC (WSL) Limited

1956-1962/3

£189,744

Docker

(1) Reed, Stock & Co Limited
(2) Port of Bristol Authority

(1) 1958-1971
(2) 1958-1967
& 1972-1980

£110,000

Machine assistant

(1) RWP Co Limited
(2) DRG Flexible Packaging

1969/70-
1985/6

£118,750

Electrician

(1) Polestar Purnell Limited
(2) Polestar UK Print Limited

1963-67

£175,529

Pipework maintenance

Sevalco Limited

1955-83

£120,304

Electrician

Department for Communities 
and Local Government

1967/8-1988/9

£135,000

Dilutee shipwright

Ministry of Defence

1953-1986

£125,000

Apprentice carpenter/joiner
Carpenter/joiner

Briscard Limited (formerly William 
Cowlin & Son Limited)

(1) 1953-1958
(2) 1960/1
(3) 1961/2


 
"...I cannot find words to express my thanks for everything you have done for us. We would both like you to know how grateful we are for the way in which you have conducted our case. You have brought it to a satisfactory conclusion in such a short time and have made it easier than we ever thought possible."

 

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