Editorial
Coal miners' respiratory disease litigation
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On 23 January 1998 Mr Justice Turner delivered his judgement in
the longest and probably most expensive personal injury court case ever
to take place in Britain, concerning respiratory disease in coal
miners. The background to the trial was that many former miners in
different parts of the country had initiated actions at common law
against British Coal over a period of several years, some as long ago
as 1989, claiming damages for occupational respiratory disease. This
was disease other than pneumoconiosis for which there has for a long
time been an agreed scheme of compensation by British Coal. Since 1992 there has been a "prescribed disease" of chronic bronchitis and
emphysema for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is payable
but, as with all types of occupational disease, the sufferer is
entitled to pursue an action at common law against the employer(s)
responsible for causing the disease in addition to claiming benefit
from the
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