Our expert workplace illness lawyers will handle your claim at no cost to you* and in the vast majority of cases you will receive 100% of your compensation**.
Expertise And Understanding From Irwin Mitchell
Employers have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of their employees. When this protection is inadequate, the results can be serious, including a wide variety of industrial illnesses.
At Irwin Mitchell we fight fearlessly to achieve the best outcome for your workplace illness claim. We’re renowned for our understanding of the issues affecting you and your family due to an industrial disease and we know what positive action to take to make a difference.
Our lawyers offer the highest level of professionalism and expertise, combined with dedication and sensitivity.
Above all, we put you first.
Handling Industrial Disease Claims With Expertise And Sensitivity
While respiratory disease in miners is well publicised, there are many, many more types of work-related illness that are equally as debilitating.
From asbestosis to vibration white finger, occupational asthma to industrial deafness , if you’re suffering from an illness that is related to your working conditions, contact Irwin Mitchell about a possible industrial illness claim.
Irwin Mitchell has represented over 200,000 people with workplace disease claims.
If we can prove there’s a link between your work environment and your medical condition, and that your employer failed to protect you, our specialist solicitors will pursue a workplace illness claim on your behalf.
We’ll also guide through the process while we gather evidence and compile a detailed work and medical history in support of your case.
Under English law, in most cases you must make an industrial disease claim within three years from the date that you first realise or suspect that your illness is a result of your employment, or three years from the onset of your symptoms.
This doesn’t mean that an illness triggered several years ago cannot be claimed for now. In the late 1990s, we handled a series of claims against British Coal resulting in 40,000 former miners receiving £500 million for their vibration white finger, whilst to date over 100,000 men received approximately £1.5 billion having suffered chronic bronchitis and emphysema caused by their time down Britain’s pits. Similarly, workers for BMW claiming for industrial deafness caused on the production line in the 1960s and 1970s, recently received £8 million in compensation, some 25 years after their employment.
Finally, and importantly, we’ll ensure that your care and rehabilitation needs are fully met, with interim payments in the meantime wherever possible.
Proven Expertise In Industrial Disease Claims
We act on behalf of several trade unions and their members as well as individuals who are not in a trade union. As leading, well experienced practitioners in this field we’re able to quickly identify evidence and precedents to bolster and support your claim.
Irwin Mitchell is also one of the largest and most experienced personal injury law firms in the country.
Our team includes many of the country’s finest personal injury lawyers. They operate in highly specialised teams, offering the highest level of legal expertise in industrial disease claims.
Irwin Mitchell’s Commitment To Making A Difference
Irwin Mitchell’s first commitment is to you, and to achieving the best outcome for your work related illness claim.
We also have a long history of campaigning with leading organisations in numerous personal injury fields. Together with those organisations we seek improvements in health and safety, prevent accident and injury where possible, and improve the quality of life and levels of compensation for those who have suffered injury.
We have also pursued many leading legal cases in order to improve the prospects of success of claims for various forms of personal injury, and to obtain fairer compensation.
The above information relates to the law and procedures in England and Wales
* Subject to entering a ‘No Win, No Fee’ agreement with us and complying with its terms.
** Does not apply to group actions, criminal injuries or accidents and illnesses outside England and Wales and is subject to compliance with the terms of your funding arrangements.
All Scottish cases will be handled by the Scottish law firm with which we are associated, Irwin Mitchell Scotland LLP. The law relating to funding is different in Scotland and you will receive separate advice about what that means as well as a separate funding agreement