Until now, this compensation was limited to certain workers. The Court of Cassation decided Friday to allow everyone to claim ... under certain conditions.

The Court of Cassation, which limited until now the compensation of the injury of anxiety to certain categories of workers exposed to asbestos, decided Friday to allow all to claim, under certain conditions.

The plenary assembly, the most solemn formation of the high court, thus abandons a jurisprudence that unions and associations of victims of asbestos considered as "unfair" and "discriminatory".