Former State employees to pursue new asbestos claim

THE State is facing a fresh legal battle from former public sector workers who claim they have suffered from exposure to asbestos.

The Government had won a legal judgment that it was not liable to pay compensation to workers who claimed to have developed a serious psychiatric injury from the fear of contracting a disease after being exposed to asbestos.

However, it has emerged that a number of these individuals have begun a new legal challenge for compensation.