Corby Borough Council will pay out over a million pounds in personal injury compensation after a High Court ruling that it disposed of toxic waste from a local steelworks in a negligent manner, which resulted in a number of birth defects in the area due to toxic waste exposure.
According to the BBC News website, one of the families to make a successful personal injury compensation claim against the council is that of 18 year old George Taylor, who has had much of his right hand removed due to tumours after his mother was exposed to the toxic waste dumped from the steelworks whilst pregnant.
Taylor, and 18 further children affected by illness and physical defects from the toxic waste, will share between them an out of court settlement estimated at a total of more than one million pounds.
The lawsuit arises from a situation in the early 1980s, when Corby Borough Council bought former industrial sites following the closure of Corby steelworks. A large amount of contaminated land was removed before development began, but poor organisation meant that toxic waste was spread around the Corby area.
In the following years, several children were born with physical defects, including missing fingers, and the affected families joined together to launch a compensation claims case proving that the council’s negligent disposal of toxic waste was to blame.
In the summer of 2009, the High Court decided that both the toxic waste removal project was managed negligently by Corby Borough Council and that the waste was the cause of the victims’ birth defects.
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