After months of procedural wrangling and negotiations about settlement, the asbestos plaintiff’s bar has now attacked the Bestwall/Georgia-Pacific chapter 11...

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 compensation to persons sufferi...

Researchers continue to generate more and more data and hypotheses regarding mesothelioma in persons with a germline (inherited) BAP1 mutation. The newest pa...

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 consuming kool-aid a...

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

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

Most insurers, defendants and various interested others can and should be spending money to find additional causes of mesothelioma. The vast majority, howeve...

Messrs. Cohn, Shelley and Arnold are back with a valuable new article:  The Need for Further Transparency Between the Tort System and Section 524(g) Asbestos...

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

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  its asbestos trust. ...

It’s good to see more people openly suggesting that insurers should be funding medical research on mesothelioma. The same principles also apply more broadly....

The Johns-Manville asbestos trust report for year end 2013 is out and online. The report is one of the least useful and least informative reports ever issue...

The Garlock asbestos bankruptcy opinion continues to generate fallout and follow up. Among other things, Ford has now filed motion papers in the Garlock case...

The THAN bankruptcy (Thompson-Hayward) was and remains a poster child for some of the many flaws in chapter 11 handling of mass tort bankruptcies. In fact, b...

Last Friday, Daniel Fisher at Forbes reported on numerous health insurers and some hospital groups filing in Philadelphia state court various papers regardin...

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, right? The only ex...

Asbestos litigation is now yielding yet another example of why there should be transparency on asbestost trust claiming data. Unfortunately, as I’ve been po...

In a welcome and overdue reversal of past rulings, a Delaware district judge recently ordered that 2019 statements are presumptively open to the public, even...

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

Global asbestos claiming. The latest chapter in the global growth is a new lawsuit filed against the Manville Trust in New York bankruptcy court. The claiman...