Engineer received £400,000 due to asbestos exposure

Posted on May 29^th 2009

£400,000 has been awarded to an Engineer following exposure to asbestos has lead to him developing terminal lung cancer.

The 56 year old man was first exposed to asbestos when he was 15, and after developing mesothelioma was forced to give up work in 2007 due to ill health.

The compensation that he has received will look after his family, money that he would have earned if he had not had to give up running his own business, which he was devastated to close down after 25 years of hard work.

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