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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
    • Jun 22, 2009
    • 1 min

    Updated – Reactions to Travelers Manville Asbstos Bankruptcy Opinion

    An article here provides a quick comment from Elizabeth Warren and mentions law students who helped Prof. Isacharoff. A Law360 article...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 17, 2009
    • 2 min

    NonMalignant Claims Going Back Up If You Judge by the Manville Asbestos Trust Report for Q 1 2009

    Walter Olson ‘s PointofLaw has a June 12 post about Judge Weinstein writing a pessimistic paper about the way courts handle mass tort...
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    Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

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