The job of a solicitor acting for a defendant or his insurers is to minimize their liability to the plaintiff. This ensures that premiums for motor and other forms of insurance remain affordable. No personal injury action should be settled before it has become clear how serious the injuries are and how long they will affect the claimant, or before the full extent of the resultant losses is known. However, once the value of a claims is established most claims can be settled fairly quickly if the evidence on the issue of negligence is clear, because the solicitors for both sides can second-guess the court and come to an agreement about what the case is worth, given previous court awards. The symptoms of asthma are a feeling of tightness in the chest, shortness of breath and wheezing.
Occupational asthma is asthma contracted in the workplace.
It results from particles, mists and gases inhaled in the working environment. These asthmagens include flour, wood dust, superglue fumes, spray paint fumes, soldering fumes, varnishing fumes and diesel fumes. An employer owes an employee a legal duty to take reasonable case to ensure that the employee does not contract asthma through exposure to asthmagens at work. This duty includes obligations to monitor and ventilate the working environment, and to provide employees with adequate protection, such as an airhood, where necessary. To the extent that an employer fails in this duty and an employee suffers asthma as a result, the employer will be obliged to compensate the employee.