It’s great to see and feel a message starting to get through, as illustrated by legal media coverage of last week’s Perrin asbestos...

Although long overdue, it’s once again good to see growing attention focused on the lack of transparency and accountability with respect...

Spring break included time to read several books. Some are relevant to a GlobalTort topics, including one highly relevant to the deep...

As described in this prior post of a little less than a year ago, a bankruptcy judge in Pennsylvania last year wrote a cogent opinion...

As explained before in many posts categorized under "asbestos bankruptcy," the situation in the US today is that we have two different...

What a great legal term of art – "scheme of arrangement." The term has multiple but related nuanced meanings and applications because...

Pasted below are key excerpts from a February 18 Wall Street Journal Australia article by Miland Rout which provides news of a $ 2...

Today, a new example of issues that arise from secrecy in asbestos litigation. The question in short: How often do asbestos trusts...

I’m setting aside James Hardie and Australia for a few days. News on Friday provides a great springboard for some comments in the same...

Now it’s west (from Chicago) to Australia, asbestos and the public company fiber cement business commonly known as James Hardie. The...

Here is an article from Japan this week that reports on finding Libby Mines vermiculite in buildings in Japan. The article claims the...

The Supreme Court’s Manville/Travelers opinion was quite narrow (some might say advisory) and resulted in a remand of the case to the 2d...

As a result of bugging the clerk’s office and the court reporter’s office, the transparency-blocking 90 day veil has now been lifted...

I’m headed to London this weekend to chair an asbestos litigation conference starting On Tuesday the 29th, so this seems a good time for...

This article from Bloomberg describes the start of the confirmation trial in the Pfizer/Quigley asbestos bankruptcy and reviews the case...

This summer brought the Chrysler and GM chapter 11 cases in which bankruptcy courts issued wide-ranging injunctions that seek to block...

Now online here at no expense is a new paper by the economists at Bates White. The paper is titled “The Naming Game” and is well-worth...

An update seems appropriate in light of the “new” cert petition filed in early September, and comments this week from the asbestos...

Looks like another asbestos bankruptcy is ahead. This bankruptcy apparently will involve an asbestos mine in Zimbabwe, according to this...

Just in time for upcoming asbestos litigation seminars. the economists at Bates White have issued a new report on asbestos litigation,...