Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Michael Clapham (Labour), on Monday, 25 October 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 70 members in total.

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COAL HEALTH CLAIMS HANDLING AGREEMENT

That this House is most concerned by what appears to be the intention of the Department for Trade and Industry to exclude an unknown but potentially large number of deceased claims from recovering damages under the Coal Health Claims Handling Agreement, notwithstanding the fact that the Agreement was designed by Lawyers for both sides under the direction of the Court and in the knowledge that in many cases medical records would not be available and that under the medical assessment process the respiratory specialists would do the best they could in arriving at a balance of probability decision resulting in a discount in compensation payable in recognition of the paucity of medical evidence; is alarmed that the DTI has moved away from the Agreement and has described cases where there is a paucity of medical evidence as unassessable claims; and calls on the DTI to go back to the principles of the Agreement under which 180,000 claims have already been processed instead of pressing ahead with a change that will damage confidence in the claims handling process.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1810 

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Compensation Coal Industrial diseases Mining

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk