Articles by ‘Helen Childs’

Mr A was exposed to asbestos while working in the building trade at Birmingham University during the 1950s and 60s. He was employed by various companies on different jobs across the university campus and…

Our specialist asbestos claims team has been instructed by the family of a lady who has sadly developed and died from mesothelioma. We are investigating how our client may have come into contact with…

Helen Childs explains the findings of a recent Mesothelioma UK and University of Sheffield study into the gendered experience of mesothelioma, which has highlighted differences in support and willingness to bring a claim for compensation.

Helen Childs, Head of our specialist Industrial Disease claims team, details a recent successful case involving a claim for mesothelioma.

Helen Childs explains how her and her specialist mesothelioma claims team successfully sought £140,000 for a client whose health is rapidly declining.

Rix v Paramount confirms the answer to a question that sometimes arises from fatal claims following the loss of the driving force behind family companies. The court looked at the reality behind the income from the company i.e. that it was generated by the husband despite the wife being an equal shareholder, and also reconfirmed that the dependency claim is assessed at the time of death, so the ongoing success of the company in the hands of the family’s sons did not reduce the widow’s loss of dependency.

Mr K, a retired Paper Mill worker, sadly developed mesothelioma. Most people exposed to asbestos in paper mills maintain paper making equipment. The paper making process involves pulping, recovery and boiler operations which usually…

Mr L worked for the Greater London Council (GLC) as a carpenter in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although he never handled asbestos himself, he was often surrounded by other tradesmen who used…

Helen Childs, specialist industrial disease solicitor and head of our Mesothelioma Claims team, explains what we have learned from the impact of coronavirus on mesothelioma patients.

Mr P was 49 when he was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma. He had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis almost 25 years before and was considerably disabled by his multiple sclerosis when the mesothelioma developed….