The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
The infamous Waukegan, Illinois plant of Johns-Manville remains essentially a ruined 300 lake front acres. A July 2, 2015 story in the Chicago Tribune provides a brief update on the land. This EPA web page has more specifics.
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