CLASS ACTION SUIT
Miners set aside silicosis funds
As many as 100,000 former workers are part of SA’s biggest class action in which 32 respondents are named
27 July 2017 - 15:15
Gold Fields and Anglo American have set aside more than $130m between them for a possible settlement with miners who contracted lung diseases at work. A class action suit, mostly relating to the fatal lung disease silicosis, was filed on behalf of mine workers in 2012 and has unnerved an industry that has been battling rising costs and generally depressed prices. Anglo American said on Thursday it had set aside $101m and Gold Fields said it had made a provision of $30.2m.
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