The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 4 WLR 109
Court of Appeal
Rix v Paramount Shopfitting Co Ltd
[2021] EWCA Civ 1172
2021 June 24; July 28
Underhill, Baker, Nicola Davies LJJ
Fatal Accidents Acts— Damages— Widow's dependency— Deceased building up family business— Claimant wife of deceased receiving salary as director of business and dividends as shareholder but not working in business— Deceased dying from mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos in course of earlier employment with defendant— Claimant bringing claim against defendant for financial dependency— Whether having valid claim for financial dependency where profitability of family business increasing after death of deceased— Appropriate method of calculation of financial dependency—
Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (c 30), s 3(1)