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The Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK (AVSGF-UK) is an umbrella organisation representing asbestos victims support groups. The Forum' s main purpose is to work collectively to provide one voice for asbestos victims.
For advice on benefits and compensation and support for sufferers of asbestos disease and their families contact Forum Members
Remembering Nancy Tait MBE Hon DUniv
Obituary
Three asbestos campaigners, Katrina London, Paul Granville and Jason Addy have commenced a breathtaking cycle from Glasgow to Southampton to raise awareness of mesothelioma and to call for government funded research into this terrible disease. They will be stopping at asbestos ‘hot spots’ on route (see link) and will be met by asbestos victims and supporters to publicise the aims of the cycle (see photos and reports)
For up to date details log on to . . . www.breathtaking-journey.com
Donate at . . . www.justgiving.com/breathtakingjourney
To print out a flyer (3 Mb pdf.) . . . Cycle flyer.
In a protest by asbestos victims an open letter view was handed to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) at their conference condemning insurers' refusal to honour their liability to pay compensation to dying asbestos victims and in support of the All Party Parliamentary Group demand for an insurance of last resort view .
For a press release go to view
Mesothelioma sufferers will gather on Friday, February 27 to call for the government to invest millions in research to treat the devastating asbestos related disease, Mesothelioma is the least researched of the top twenty cancers.....
For the Forum Press Release please go to: . . . click here
Asbestos Victim Support Groups held events throughout the UK to mark Action Mesothelioma Day 2009. Family, relatives and friends remembered loved ones lost to the awful disease.
Looking back on the day . . . click here
The government has announced that it will now allow T&N claimants to keep lump sum payments as well as the small payments from the T&N Funds. This welcome decision was announced on the 13th February.
For the government press statement please go to: . . . click here
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a campaign to warn maintenance workers of the dangers of asbestos in buildings today.
For information about the campaign go to:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/hiddenkiller/index.htm
For information about essential precautions to prevent exposure to asbestos at work go to:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/essentials/index.htm
The insurers' attempt to deny asbestos victims compensation has failed.
A High Court judgment said that insurers of companies during the period when exposure to asbestos occurred are responsible for paying compensation - not insurers of companies during the period when an asbestos disease develops many years later. This judgment simply confirms what has been the practice for many years. If the judge had ruled otherwise, hardly any asbestos victims would receive compensation because most companies who expose people to asbestos have ceased trading and there simply will be no insurer to claim against.
NB
However, this decision has now been appealed and claimants must continue to wait for the final judgement
To read the Press Release ....click here
To read the judgement please go to this link here
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2008/2692.html
The government has laid an order before Parliament to revoke the requirement, introduced 9 years ago, to require employers to retain employers' liability insurance (EL Insurance) policies for 40 years.
The 40-year rule was introduced because hundreds of asbestos victims each year do not get compensation because they cannot trace the insurers of employers who have ceased trading. It is imperative that government establishes a central electronic database for the compulsory recording of all employers' liability insurance policies.
We call on the government to establish an Employers Liability Insurance Bureau to provide insurance of last resort as is provided to motor accident victims under the Motor Insurers Bureau. We see no reason why asbestos victims should be treated less favourably than motor accident victims.
Please see the Forum Statement . . . . click here
The Law Lords have upheld a Court of Appeal decision to end compensation for pleural plaques. For this and information on the GMB lobby to Parliament on the 29th January....... more