Death verdict (From Daily Echo)
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Death verdict
7:00am Friday 22nd March 2013 in News
Death verdict
A COMBINATION of smoking and previous exposure to asbestos caused the death of a Southampton man, an inquest heard.
Terence Murdoch, a retired engineer, was a life-long smoker and had been employed at Fawley Power Station for 34 years.
The 69-year-old, of Bishops Road, Itchen, died at Countess Mountbatten Hospice in October 2012.
A verdict of death due to industrial disease and cigarette smoking was recorded.
southy says...
9:44am Fri 22 Mar 13
Is this a way for companys not paying out on death due to industrial disease by including smoking now, if so its not going to work to many have been paid out to industrial disease deaths where people have smoked.