I’d love to take a few days to read and write about interesting thinking on mass torts and claims resolution issues. But that’s not possible right now. I do,...

An article in The Hill reports that product liability claimants are not happy with the developments in the Chrsyler and GM chapter 11 cases, so they are taki...

— See also March 11, 2009 update on the entry below ——- ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s entry is unusual, and ari...

James Hardie is an Australian building products company that made lots of asbestos-cement products, some of which were made from the especially lethal blue a...

It is striking news that a bankruptcy judge has refused to allow Congoleum to continue to try to confirm an asbestos bankruptcy plan. Instead, late last week...

Some corporations that made or sold various allegedly “toxic” or harmful products are today looking for and pursuing all kinds of paths to try to exit the “t...