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10 Aug 2020, 2:24 am by Schachtman
Starting in 1964, Johns-Manville Corporation, the major manufacturer of asbestos-containing insulation, started warning. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 1:57 pm by David Wright
Johns Manville, Inc., No. 2:18-cv-00022 (D.S.C. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 1:57 pm by David Wright
Johns Manville, Inc., No. 2:18-cv-00022 (D.S.C. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 1:22 am
Bailey, an appeal from the Second Circuit's decision in modern bankruptcy's first mega-case, In re Johns-Manville, in which the Second Circuit held that "while there is no doubt that the bankruptcy court had jurisdiction to clarify its prior [1986] orders [enjoining all third-party derivative claims against Travelers], that clarification cannot be used as a predicate to enjoin claims over which it had no jurisdiction [i.e., direct claims against Travelers by the… [read post]
22 May 2008, 7:06 am
The “asbestos litigation crisis” began in earnest in 1974 when attorney Steven Kazan filed, and ultimately won, a civil suit against the Johns-Manville Corporation on behalf of an employee who developed asbestosis after working in the company’s Pittsburg, California plant for 29 years. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 5:39 am
John Crane Company Johns-Manville Corporation Kaiser Aluminum Kelly-Moore Kentile Floors Leslie Controls Lincoln Electric Company M.H. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 9:13 am by Joe Consumer
 For example, in 1933, the Johns-Manville Company settled with an attorney for 11 former Manville employees, all asbestosis victims. [read post]
27 Jan 2018, 8:50 am by Schachtman
In May 1989, when Sandy and defense counsel announced “ready” before Judge Gordon, Johns Manville was in bankruptcy. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 2:04 am
BaileyBANKRUPTCY - Insurance - Jurisdiction"Finality of Bankruptcy Court's orders approving the Johns-Manville Corporation's reorganization plan and a settlement releasing its insurers from policy claims, which were channeled to a separate trust, generally stands in the way of challenging the enforceability of those orders, and the injunction bars direct actions against an insurer based on alleged misconduct. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 1:33 pm by Schachtman
  Hired gun Castleman appears to have written Dr Selikoff in 1979, in the early days of the asbestos litigation, and urged him to not cooperate with lawful efforts of Johns-Manville to obtain evidence of the insulators’ union knowledge of the hazards of asbestos. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 10:26 am by Buce
  We've seen the script played out in countless mass tort cases over the years, going back at least as far as Johns-Manville, the first of the asbestosis cases back in 1982. [read post]
8 May 2012, 5:15 pm
Normally bankruptcy does not expand pre-petition contracts or impose different risks on contracting parties, but it appears that when the courts are firmly convinced of the public good of creating an asbestos trust, insurance contracts at least can be re-written. 11 U.S.C §524(g) was added to the Bankruptcy Code after the historic Johns Manville asbestos bankruptcy case to codify the use of a trust and channeling injunction to allow asbestos defendants to channel all their… [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 5:05 pm by Schachtman
By the time of the Califano report, the misdeeds of Johns-Manville had become well known among the scientific community. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 2:04 am
BaileyBANKRUPTCY - Insurance - Jurisdiction"Finality of Bankruptcy Court's orders approving the Johns-Manville Corporation's reorganization plan and a settlement releasing its insurers from policy claims, which were channeled to a separate trust, generally stands in the way of challenging the enforceability of those orders, and the injunction bars direct actions against an insurer based on alleged misconduct. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 11:03 am by Rebecca Shafer, J.D.
Please do an internet search for a case study of the bankruptcy of the Johns Manville Corporation to see how workers comp claims alone can bankrupt a company. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 12:09 pm by Schachtman
Bartrip, “Irving John Selikoff and the Strange Case of the Missing Medical Degrees,” 58 J. [read post]