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26 Aug 2011, 1:04 pm
Since the first major bankruptcy filing by Johns-Manville Corp., in 1982, more than 90 companies that either made or installed asbestos insulation or that sold or used products containing asbestos have filed for bankruptcy *1. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 5:39 am
Veterans diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer may be entitled to receive compensation from over $30 billion available from asbestos trust funds. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 12:08 am by Simmons Hanly Conroy
The Johns Manville Company finally buckled under the weight of asbestos litigation, filing for bankruptcy in 1982 and setting aside $2.5 billion in an asbestos trust fund to pay people who were exposed to its asbestos products and later developed diseases. [read post]
20 May 2011, 2:17 pm
Since the first major bankruptcy filing by Johns-Manville Corp., in 1982, nearly 70 companies that either made or installed asbestos insulation or that sold or used products containing asbestos have filed for bankruptcy. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:43 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Johns-Manville Products Corp., the Court rejected the “state of the art” defense and allowed for strict liability to be imposed against the defendant manufacturers “for failure to warn of dangers which were undiscoverable at the time” they manufactured their products. 90 N.J. 191, 205 (1982). [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:22 am by Schachtman
  Selikoff was an assistant attending physician for thoracic diseases in the department of thoracic diseases at Mt. [read post]
25 Feb 2023, 6:50 pm by admin
  Selikoff’s medical practice in Paterson, New Jersey, afforded him the opportunity to observe “the incidence of lung disease among workers at the Union Asbe [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 9:47 am by Schachtman
A recent decision has widened the range of compensable diseases for insulation workers even further. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 11:55 am
Celotex Corp., 907 F.2d 104, 105 (9th Cir. 1990) (asbestos) (applying Arizona law). [read post]