Thalidomide victims seeking payout

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Thalidomide victims have mounted a new bid for compensation from the drug's manufacturer and distributor more than 50 years after they were born deformed.

Papers have been filed at the High Court on behalf of eight people whose mothers took the anti-morning sickness drug when pregnant in the late 1950s and early 1960s, law firm Slater & Gordon said.