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Pleural Plaques Litigation
The House of Lords today (17.10.07) unanimously dismissed the joined appeals by Claimants in Johnston , Rothwell and others [2007] UKHL 39. Michael Rawlinson acted as first Junior assisted by Sophie Allan on behalf of the successful Respondents on the instructions of EL insurers Zurich Commercial and Norwich Union (instructing Halliwells) as previously instructed in the Court of Appeal where they had already succeeded before the Court of Appeal.
Estimates vary about the value of the savings to the industry but they have appeared in the i
ndustry press in the region of £1 Billion.
This decision brings to an end in excess of twenty years of litigation in which claims such as these were permitted and which had, until the insurers decided to test this point again, increased significantly both in the volume of claims brought and in the quantum of the awards.
The full judgement can be downloaded by clicking on the file below.
