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Wait goes on for industrial disease victims' compensation

Karl Tonks

A specialist industrial disease lawyer has called for greater urgency to redress the fact that victims of asbestos-related illnesses are still dying without compensation - two years after the government finished consulting on plans to set up an insurance fund to help them.

Karl Tonks, head of the employers' liability department at Fentons Solicitors, and president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said: "It is crucial that insurers do more to ensure that

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