Keywords: hearing loss, indisurtial hearing loss, noise exposure, test cases,

Deafness ruling is easy listening for textile firms

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.04.2007

In a landmark ruling on industrial deafness, a judge has decided a group of textile companies is not liable to pay damages in seven test cases of hearing loss at "lower" exposure levels.

The claimants, who all worked in textiles factories in the East Midlands from the 1960s onward ...

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