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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — (Mealey’s) Chapter 11 debtor Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC’s total estimated liability for present and future mesothelioma claims is only $125 million, not $1.2 billion as asbestos personal injury claimants argued...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a petition to resolve the question of whether a bankruptcy court’s order barring the assertion of contribution claims against settling insurers must be accompanied by...

SAN FRANCISCO — (Mealey’s) The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 28 vacated the bankruptcy reorganization plan for a former asbestos insulator, finding that the plan failed to satisfy the requirements of Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy...

NEW YORK — (Mealey's) The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 22 reinstated a federal bankruptcy court ruling requiring two insurance companies to pay $510 million to asbestos personal injury plaintiffs under decades-old settlements...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) Saying the measure will provide much needed transparency in the more than 60 asbestos-bankruptcy trusts and help prevent fraud, the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 13 passed House Resolution 982, the Furthering...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — (Mealey’s) Chapter 11 debtor Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC filed four adversary complaints yesterday in a North Carolina federal bankruptcy court against several law firms and attorneys, alleging conspiracy, fraud and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 denied a bid for certiorari by Pfizer Inc. of a ruling removing the protection for Pfizer of a bankruptcy injunction barring asbestos personal injury claims entered in the case of...

WILMINGTON, Del. -- (Mealey's) Former joint compound producer Bondex International Inc. and its related holding company Specialty Products Holding Corp. face an estimated $1.16 billion in pending and future asbestos personal injury claims, about...

NEW YORK — (Mealey’s) Continued deferral of punitive damages in New York City Asbestos Litigation (NYCAL) unfairly prejudices plaintiffs, and fears of runaway verdicts bankrupting defendants appear overblown in light of the standard necessary...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - (Mealey's) Garlock Sealing Technologies on June 5 filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina to establish a trust to resolve all current and future...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) Finding that Pfizer Inc. manipulated creditor votes in seeking support for a plan of reorganization for its wholly owned subsidiary Quigley Co. Inc., a New York bankruptcy judge on Sept. 8 denied Quigley's plan of reorganization...

WILMINGTON, Del. - (Mealey's) A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Jan. 31 resolved the last objections to W.R. Grace & Co.'s Chapter 11 joint plan of reorganization and recommended that the district court approve the plan ( In re: W...

By Marc C. Scarcella, Peter R. Kelso, and Joseph Cagnoli, Jr. [Editor's Note: Marc C. Scarcella and Peter R. Kelso, Managers at the Washington, D.C., office of Bates White Economic Consulting. Joseph Cagnoli, Jr., Shareholder in the Philadelphia...

PITTSBURGH - (Mealey's) Changes that Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (PCC) made to its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization following denial of plan confirmation in 2006 have not made the plan confirmable, though the plan's problems can still be fixed,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) The U.S. Bankruptcy Code does not allow bankruptcy courts to award fees to attorneys for successfully defending their fee applications, the U.S. Supreme Court held June 15 in a 6-3 decision, affirming a Fifth...