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Update on Bates White Paper on Impact of Asbestos Bankruptcies

  • Writer: Kirk Hartley
    Kirk Hartley
  • Sep 18, 2009
  • 1 min read

Now online here at no expense is a new paper by the economists at Bates White. The paper is titled “The Naming Game” and is well-worth reading because it uses data from Alameda County to prove the reality that when defendants have exited the tort system to chapter 11, plaintiffs lawyers have in fact sought out and sued new defendants with increasing frequency. The paper also raises other interesting questions for discussion another day regarding the practices of plaintiff’s lawyers in collecting money from asbestos trusts AFTER they have finished collecting money in the tort system.

The online article is a reprint from the September 2 issue of the Mealey’s report for Asbestos Litigation.

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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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