Your only mesothelioma statistics news source! Click on each item to read full story.   Grandparents claim compo for child care read story GRANDPARENTS have been given the same legal status as parents when seeking work-related compensation to cover the cost of raising children in their care.   Manchester Council’s £2m a year compensation bill read story Manchester council has paid out almost £4m in compensation – mainly for slips, trips and falls – over the past two years. New figures show the town hall settled 353 claims, at an average of £5,159 a time, in 2009/10, and 412 claims in the previous 12 months.   Asbestos Is A Good Lesson For BP ? To Avoid read story BP?s $20 billion oil-spill fund is a pre-emptive strike against plaintiff lawyers, an attempt