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    Seeing Tort Claiming Data is Useful - NFL Concussion Claims  > $800m of Claim Payments Approved
    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Jan 29, 2021
    • 2 min

    Seeing Tort Claiming Data is Useful - NFL Concussion Claims > $800m of Claim Payments Approved

    After so many years of relative secrecy about claiming in asbestos litigation and some other "mass torts," it's refreshing to see fairly...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Aug 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Asbestos Plaintiffs Attack Bestwall Chapter 11 as “Bad Faith” Filing; Suggest GP Substit

    After months of procedural wrangling and negotiations about settlement, the asbestos plaintiff’s bar has now attacked the...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jan 5, 2017
    • 1 min

    Swiss Create New Fund to Pay Compensation to Persons with Asbestos Related Diseases

    As reported by Laurie Kazan Allen at the IBAS web site and in other places, a new fund has been created in Switzerland to pay...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 30, 2015
    • 2 min

    New: “Minimal asbestos exposure in germline BAP1 heterozygous mice is associated with deregula

    Researchers continue to generate more and more data and hypotheses regarding mesothelioma in persons with a germline (inherited) BAP1...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 25, 2014
    • 1 min

    “Unsealed Garlock documents could be ‘double-edged sword’”

    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...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 24, 2014
    • 1 min

    Garlock Ruling Is Out – The Trial Is Unsealed, and More

    The Garlock trial sealing order has been reversed. The order also provides that one judge will oversee Garlock’s  claims against...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 23, 2014
    • 1 min

    Travelers is Running Out of Rope in the Important Ongoing Saga from the Manville Bankruptcy

    Due to a Second Circuit ruling yesterday, Travelers is about out of rope in its effort to avoid paying $500 million to asbestos...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 1, 2014
    • 1 min

    Identifying Additional Possible Causes of Mesothelioma, More or Less by Accident – Gene Expre

    Most insurers, defendants and various interested others can and should be spending money to find additional causes of mesothelioma. The...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 25, 2014
    • 1 min

    Documenting the Journey Towards Connecting the Tort System to the Trust Claiming System – Defe

    Messrs. Cohn, Shelley and Arnold are back with a valuable new article:  The Need for Further Transparency Between the Tort System and...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 24, 2014
    • 2 min

    An Important New Paper on Mesotheliomas: “Germline Mutation of Bap1 Accelerates Development of

    A June 13, 2014  paper by Dr. Joseph Testa and colleagues expands the ongoing investigation into the relationships among mesothelioma,...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • May 9, 2014
    • 2 min

    Some Overview Information for the General Motors Asbestos Trust

    GM has been in the news of late as to the implications of its 2009 bankruptcy for the switch recall litigation. So, a brief overview of...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Apr 14, 2014
    • 1 min

    “Why insurers should fund medical research, By Dr John Moore-Gillon British Lung Foundation&#8

    It’s good to see more people openly suggesting that insurers should be funding medical research on mesothelioma. The same principles also...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 24, 2014
    • 2 min

    Manville Trust Issues Largely Useless Annual Report for 2013

    The Johns-Manville asbestos trust report for year end 2013 is out and online. The report is one of the least useful and least...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 19, 2014
    • 1 min

    Garlock Bankruptcy Follow Up – Ford Moves for Access to Sealed Documents

    The Garlock asbestos bankruptcy opinion continues to generate fallout and follow up. Among other things, Ford has now filed motion papers...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 5, 2014
    • 1 min

    AIG Insurers Seek to Reopen the THAN Bankruptcy to Assert Audit Rights to Look for Fraud in Claiming

    The THAN bankruptcy (Thompson-Hayward) was and remains a poster child for some of the many flaws in chapter 11 handling of mass tort...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Feb 10, 2014
    • 1 min

    Initial Papers Filed by Health Insurers and Hospitals Plans Regarding Intent to Sue HK Porter Asbest

    Last Friday, Daniel Fisher at Forbes reported on numerous health insurers and some hospital groups filing in Philadelphia state court...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 29, 2013
    • 4 min

    Bankruptcy Court Secrecy – Kudzu Continues to Spread

    Trials are public events, right? The press and public can sit in and watch the trial, and the evidence becomes part of the public record,...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Apr 10, 2013
    • 2 min

    The Latest Example of Why Asbestos Trust Claiming Data Should Be Transparent

    Asbestos litigation is now yielding yet another example of why there should be transparency on asbestost trust claiming data. ...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 12, 2013
    • 1 min

    Asbestos Bankruptcy Ruling Frees Some Data in the Claimants in Bankruptcies

    In a welcome and overdue reversal of past rulings, a Delaware district judge recently ordered that 2019 statements are presumptively open...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 6, 2012
    • 2 min

    Now the Nemeroff Firm Takes Credit for Blocking Transparency as to Asbestos Trusts

    Last week Baron & Budd took credit for blocking transparency in Louisiana as to asbestos bankruptcy claiming. This week the Nemeroff law...
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