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Successful claim for employee in cancer claim following twenty years exposure to metal working fluids
28 April 2012

Simon Browne QC acted on behalf of the Claimant in Pickering v Eaton Aerospace [2012]. The Claimant was successful in an industrial disease claim with regard to the development of cancer sustained whilst an employee and exposed to working mineral oils over twenty years. Breach of duty of care and causation were denied. It was suggested that the type of cancer sustained could not have been caused by the metal working fluids used. Following a reserved decision judgment was entered for the Claimant on both liability and quantum