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12 May 2011, 5:18 am
.: “64% of Prop 65 settlements go to attorneys’ fees” [CJAC, earlier] Mississippi jury votes $322 million to individual asbestos claimant [Fair Warning, Mass Tort Prof] “Emails: Attorney nixed S.C. train injury fund” [AP/The State] Trump files $100 million counterclaim against customer who sued his “Trump University” [Atlantic Wire, earlier] More: Lowering the Bar. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 2:10 pm
American Optical Corp., 985 So. 2d 23 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), that retroactive application of the Act to the Appellees, and other claimants who had accrued causes of action for asbestos-related disease pending on the effective date of the Act, is impermissible because it violates the due process clause of the Florida Constitution. [read post]
16 May 2011, 2:44 pm
As part of the bankruptcy plan, an asbestos trust was established. [read post]
22 May 2009, 3:31 am
.'s product has made an important ruling on a Daubert challenge to a plaintiff expert in 13 cases involving 20 of the remaining claimants. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 9:37 am
Weekly D1487eTorts -- Product liability -- Asbestos -- Asbestos and Silica Compensation Fairness Act, which provides that a claimant bringing an action for damages from exposure to asbestos must plead and prove an existing malignancy or actual physical impairment for which asbestos exposure was a substantial contributing factor, is unconstitutional as applied retroactively to claimants who had an accrued cause of action for injuries… [read post]
2 May 2008, 3:10 pm
From the Wall Street Journal Legal Blog - Tax firm Caplin & Drysdale was appointed national counsel for the asbestos claimants’ committee in the bankruptcy of Babcock & Wilcox, a maker of boilers and generators. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 11:37 am
One of those purposes is to minimize financial loss to claimants or policyholders because of the insolvency of an insurer. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 8:46 am
After a lawsuit was commenced by the USF&G Parties against American Re and ECRA, each of the parties moved for summary judgment.In its motion for summary judgment, American Re argued that USF&G had paid claims for individuals who were exposed to asbestos not sold or distributed by Western MacArthur, and that USF&G bore the burden to prove that each claimant for whom it sought reimbursement was exposed to the asbestos of its insured. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 11:40 pm
For now, however, AIG investors and mesothelioma claimants with lawsuits against AIG-insured companies can rest easy. [read post]
29 Oct 2017, 7:39 pm
This paper appeared online in February 2017, and carried a disclosure that “[t]he authors have served as expert witnesses in cases involving asbestos tort litigation.2” A bit misleading given how both appear virtually exclusively for claimants, but still a disclosure, whereas Markowitz, qua editor of Greenberg’s article, claimed to have none. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 8:52 am
Recently a NJ court denied the compensability of an asbestos related condition based upon the claimant's own knowledge of the causal relationship of an asbestos related medical condition and his own occupational exposure. [read post]
2 Apr 2015, 7:32 am
So now, they want Congress to pass a bill requiring asbestos trusts to disclose on a public web site private, confidential information about every asbestos claimant and their families, including their names, addresses, where they work, how much they make, some medical information, how much they received in compensation and the last four digits of their social security numbers. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 3:00 am
If the breach of duty is established, the claimant still has to establish causation according to the Fairchild test.The Court found that, on the facts of the case, the University was not in breach of its duty of care as it was not reasonably foreseeable to a body in the position of this University in 1974 that the level of asbestos in the tunnel during the short period in 1974 exposed the victim to an unacceptable risk of asbestos-related injury. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 12:59 pm
First, it would like the Senate to pass the House-passed bill, H.R. 982, the so-called “Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act” (FACT Act), [which] does two things: 1) it requires asbestos trusts to disclose on a public web site private, confidential information about every asbestos claimant and their families, including their names, addresses, where they work, how much they make, some medical information, how much they received in… [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 1:45 am
The asbestos products were manufactured by the defendant in New Zealand. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 9:52 am
For instance, the California Court of Appeals held that all asbestos-related claims brought against a manufacturer of asbestos products fell under products hazard coverage, no matter what theory of liability is put forth by the claimant. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 6:00 am
How long and difficult the process of collecting on an asbestos claim often depends on the documentation a claimant provides, Yoro said. [read post]
14 Feb 2023, 8:07 am
Indeed, the asbestos workers’ union helped fund Selikoff’s work, and Selikoff had served as a testifying expert witness for claimants. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 10:35 am
These activities allegedly included withholding “from production in discovery death certificates for asbestos claimants that did not support the conclusion that the individual had died as a result of an asbestos-related disease”; conducting “periodic in-house training sessions to teach other attorneys and/or paralegals how to prepare all asbestos claimants to give scripted testimony in their depositions. . . . .without regard for… [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 5:50 am
Or the utter lack of fraud by dying asbestos claimants? [read post]
