TUC Risks reported that a Devon woman who developed an incurable asbestos-related cancer from hugging her father as a child has settled a damages claim. The Ministry of Defence (MoD), which owned Devonport Dockyard when Debbie Brewer's father worked there in the 1960s, settled with a six-figure sum. It had agreed liability in February
Ms Brewer, 48, was diagnosed with mesothelioma and doctors gave her between six and nine months to live. The MoD has acknowledged her only contact with the lethal substance was as a child, hugging her father Phillip Northmore when he came home from work as a lagger at Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth. Her father died from lung cancer in 2006 aged 68. His inquest found his death was linked to the deadly asbestos he worked with daily.
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