Defendants related to uber-sized Lyondell Chemical are now seeking to use a recent chapter 11 injunction to try to bar claims that...

The Stern related opinions continue from SCOTUS. It will be interesting to see the impact for mass tort bankruptcies. A May 26, 2015...

Rand’s latest is out. See below: Bankruptcy’s Effect on Product Identification in Asbestos Personal Injury Cases This report investigates...

The press release is online.

There are many double-edged swords in mass tort litigation. Some people see them, and some do not, too often because of a propensity for...

A new abstract on pleural plaques and subsequent lung cancers. Longer term studies do matter. So do more CT scans. Am J Respir Crit Care...

Through the procedures of CMS under the statute governing regarding Medicare, there is news that Medicare is highly likely to start...

Garlock has grown to like North Carolina courts. The Belluck asbestos plaintiff’s firm, not so much. The result is what would appear to...

Here is the transcript  from the October 16, 2014 hearing at which the Garlock record was ordered unsealed.

iMig has posted videos of plenary sessions from Day 1 iMig 2014, and summaries of some other sessions. Best of Imig 2014 – Day 1 is...

As RAND and others long ago explained, the asbestos litigation wars generate massive expenses.  With aggregate professional fees now at...

Bankruptcy lawyers are seldom shy in asking for too much in chapter 11 plan confirmation orders. And,  too often, the lawyers and their...

Mark Plevin, Leslie Davis, Tacie Yoon and Rebecaa Suarez are the authors of the seventh edition of  the valuable series of papers...

The Garlock trial sealing order has been reversed. The order also provides that one judge will oversee Garlock’s  claims against...

Due to a Second Circuit ruling yesterday, Travelers is about out of rope in its effort to avoid paying $500 million to asbestos...

Messrs. Cohn, Shelley and Arnold are back with a valuable new article:  The Need for Further Transparency Between the Tort System and...

A June 13, 2014  paper by Dr. Joseph Testa and colleagues expands the ongoing investigation into the relationships among mesothelioma,...

Are bankruptcy court injunctions enforceable when they cut off personal injury claims and related rights of co-defendants without...

Bankruptcy court usually is an adventure, and too often, much of it is off the record. In the Garlock bankruptcy proceedings, the...

You know something’s haywire when a Catch-22 enters a courtroom, and plaintiffs start acting like defendants, and vice versa. So it goes...