The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
A list of influential bankruptcy judges is set out in LAW360 on July 25, 2016. On reading the list, one has to note how much asbestos litigation – and asbestos bankruptcies – have done to power the scale of and use of chapter 11 cases in Delaware courts, via lawyers hailing from Delaware, New York and Philadelphia law firms.
Issues arising from criminal prosecutions of former managers at an asbestos-cement plant (Everite) are up on appeal, as described in a February 2, 2021 post at the Ban Asbestos Secretariat run by Ms.
Some "toxins" are long-lived, and so decisions made decades ago continue to ripple through current events. A "now in the news" example is the Carolina Asbestos Company in North Carolina. In the first
A newly entered order in the Bestwall/Georgia Pacific chapter 11 case provides a ruling on some aspects of an estimation process to value mesothelioma claims - it is online here. Time will tell how th