Piper Alpha claim
Piper Alpha claim
A North Sea oil rig painter who saw his comrades perish in the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 lost his High Court claim that he suffered psychiatric damage. Will-iam Hegarty, 43, was aboard the support vessel which tried to aid the rig as it was destroyed by explosions; 167 people died.
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