FRENCHMAN WINS ECJ ASBESTOS COMPENSATION CASE
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim. The pan-EU precedent came in a case brought by a French national facing a low compensation payout because he had been working in Belgium.
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THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compensation claimants for asbestos-contamination associated illness should receive awards calculated by taking their likely earning power in their home European Union (EU) country into account, even if they were working in another EU state when making the claim. The pan-EU precedent came in a case brought by a French national facing a low compensation payout because he had been working in Belgium.
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