Sufferers will usually contract an industrial disease through their working environments. It may be that the symptoms of the disease do not appear for some time and they may have left their position before the illness manifests itself.
This means that when you are looking to run a case against a previous employer, we may have to trace back to the time that you worked there. It could also be that a patient has worked at a variety of similar employers who may all be liable for the presenting symptoms.
If the company you worked for is no longer trading, this will not necessarily be a barrier to claiming. We will undertake what is known as an ELTO search. This stands for Employers Liability Tracing Office. This search will look to identify who insured the company when you worked for them. If insurers are located, they will have to step into the shoes of the Defendant and become the paymasters of the claim.
As a lot of these matters relate to exposure from decades earlier, it is not unusual that Claimants either forget jobs where they may have briefly experienced exposure, or the exact years of employment. Also, it is not unusual that the name somebody has understood to have been their employer is not actually the legal entity that employed them.
We will therefore obtain your employment schedule from the HMRC, which will list all your employers through your lifetime. After discussion with yourself, we will then look to proceed with the claims against all the identified Defendants and their insurers.
