Asbestos claim against two employers

A woman whose husband died from mesothelioma has received £100,000 in compensation. The man worked in railway workshops in the 1940s, and died in 2001, aged 77. He was exposed to asbestos and his widow sued two previous employers, British Rail and Anglo Saxon Petroleum. Both companies accepted responsibility and the compensation was split 75-25 between the two employers. The decision was based on the House of Lords ruling in 2002 that mesothelioma claimants could sue more than one defendant, and did not have to prove where the fatal asbestos had come from.