Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme – Time for the Government to increase the Tariff?

Fieldfisher has claimed compensation for those with mesothelioma for over 30 years. Prior to 6th April 2014 compensation was only available for those employees who could both prove their employers were at fault and if the insurers for the relevant period of employment could be found. This was not easy to do given that you were generally looking at periods some 40 to 60 years before. The establishment of the Employers' Liability Tracing Office was the first bit of good news as this was the first database of employers' liability insurance. Then the government set up the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS) which would pay compensation according to a tariff to those eligible sufferers or dependants where the claim would have succeeded but for being able to trace the relevant employer's liability insurer. Tariff payments are on a sliding scale between £271,120 for those 40 years and under and £87,061 for those 90 years and over. Financing the Scheme…

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