Not a good week for James Hardie. This week the news is that it will not fund an expected shortfall of cash in its asbestos trust, and...

Press reports indicate that a judgment is due out later today regarding the Australian “SEC”s criminal prosecution of directors of James...

This post follows up on a prior post that described the Manville asbestos trust halting its prior practice of licensing its claims data...

This post follows up on the amicus brief mentioned in yesterday’s post regarding the GIT asbestos chapter 11 case that is set for oral...

The Travelers/Manville case pending before the Supreme Court is only one of the asbestos Chapter 11 cases pending in federal appellate...

The oral argument transcript is availble here. #AsbestosBankruptcy #AsbestosTrusts #ConstitutionalLawMassTortLaw #MassTortIssues #Asbestos

Updated: An April 6 blog entry by Alison Frankel includes a letter from Cozen O’Conner responding to Mr. Ostrager. Today’s oral argument...

Are American lawyers going abroad to seek out new asbestos claimants? Of course they are. Like any business person, they are seeking new...

A prior post on this blog (March 6, 2009) provided information regarding the Manville Trust 1) reducing data available from the trust and...