Lawyers acting for people suffering from asbestos-related diseases have renewed their appeal for a ‘fund of last resort’ when insurance details cannot be found.
Claimant lawyers said they had waited more than a year for the results of a consultation on setting up an Employers’ Liability Insurance Bureau.
The scheme would work as a safety net for victims of disease – mainly incurred through their work decades ago – when victims cannot trace their employers’ insurance records.
Welfare reform minister Lord Freud has confirmed that the idea is still under consideration but has yet to give a date for publishing the government’s consultation response.
A spokesman for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers reiterated its call for reform.
He said: ‘Victims of industrial disease, such as those dying from mesothelioma, are left subsidising insurers when they are unable to trace the relevant policy documents… insurance companies have collected premiums to pay out in the event of such claims.
‘We have a similar [scheme of redress] in place for millions of motorists.
There is no excuse for failing to treat workers in the same way.’
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