BBC 15th April 2008
A Norfolk MP has launched a campaign to get compensation for people who are affected by asbestosis. In October 2007, the Law Lords decided that scarring of the lungs should no longer be a compensatory illness.
Dr Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North, has now started a campaign to overturn that decision.
The eastern region has one of the highest rates of death from the disease in the country, and that number is expected to peak by 2020.
Dr Gibson said the figures were particularly high in the East because of the nature of the region's industries and the amount of asbestos involved.
"Council houses had it, some of the factories used asbestos to prevent fires and also in the products they made, and of course there's been ship building," he said.
"And the families at home who washed the clothes the people used in the factories have also developed the lung cancer, called mesothelioma."
Dr Gibson said he was confident the campaign could overturn the decision.
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