In contrast, the employers submit that the insurance policies respond to mesothelioma caused
by exposure to
asbestos during the relevant policy period but which develops and manifests itself sometime later.
In any year in which there was a substantial
exposure to
asbestos, mesothelioma was «caused»
by that
exposure during that year and could be contracted when
exposure occurred.
Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for
exposure to
asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims
by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK
by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims
by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation
by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants
during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.