New legislation would extend compensation to all patients with asbestos illnesses

A new asbestos compensation bill for patients has been well received by a woman in Ireland whose husband died of a related cancer, according to BBC News on May 27, 2008.

According to the news article, between 40 and 50 people die every year from the disease in Northern Ireland.

The proposed legislation would break new ground by extending payments to all sufferers.

Hundreds of former workers in shipyards and other heavy industries around the world have died from asbestos-related diseases.

Under the new Bill in Ireland, it will not be necessary to prove an occupational or causal link to access compensation.

Sadly, this situation is all too familiar to the attorneys in the Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. Asbestos Litigation unit here in the United States.

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