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...The US lawsuits vary between consumers demanding compensation for personal injury, US states claiming environmental clean-up bills and water companies seeking the costs of pollutant monitoring and decontamination...
...All of them are facing billions of dollars in asbestos-related personal injury litigation....
...injury claims....
...Shawn “Val” Johnson, who has mesothelioma, a type of cancer linked to asbestos, won a $27mn personal injury award from J&J just days before it deployed the “Texas two-step”....
...J&J has established a $2bn trust to facilitate settlements in those cases....
...It has also enraged personal injury lawyers, politicians and claimants, some of whom are very sick with cancers they allege are linked to asbestos exposure....
...Frei was diagnosed with tinnitus and now, almost a decade later, is one of 230,000 personal injury claimants who are suing the Minnesota-based conglomerate 3M, which they allege sold the army faulty Combat...
...Claimants had sought to dismiss the bankruptcy case by J&J subsidiary LTL Management and lift a stay on thousands of personal injury lawsuits, arguing that J&J’s manoeuvring would delay justice, strip their...
...A key feature of the manoeuvre is that personal injury claims are halted during the bankruptcy process, which can drag on for years....
...He said resolving talc claims through the bankruptcy process was in the public interest, noting a $2bn settlement trust proposed by J&J could benefit talc claimants whose time may be limited due to illness...
...Jones Day claimed almost $60mn in court-approved bankruptcy fees for advising companies on a complex corporate restructuring process that can shelter them from paying out large personal injury awards, as...
...J&J says it has won most of the personal injury lawsuits over talc that have gone to trial so far....
...More recently the term has entered the corporate lexicon as a bankruptcy manoeuvre deployed by companies seeking to shield themselves from personal injury claims....
...The Sacklers’ cash would fund “abatement trusts” to bankroll campaigns against the opioid crisis and to compensate victims....
...one for personal injury claims....
...A pre-trial settlement, with a compromise on the level of compensation, could also be on the table. What next for Neil Woodford?...
...Liability only comes about if personal injury is related to an unusual or unexpected event – which at this point, catching Covid-19 is not....
...Many of these were personal injury specialists, some from out of state who had set up shop in northern California after the fires....
...The endless online sessions, sometimes punctuated by the sound of crying children in the background, meant that officials saw far more of their opposite numbers’ personal lives than they expected or even...
...But managing the relationship between the two will be a match that goes into indefinite injury time....
...Insys may find it easier to stay litigation from outside the government, where it faces 28 personal injury lawsuits, six suits from health insurers and three from shareholders....
...The parties devised a channelling injunction — a legal structure used in asbestos cases in the 1980s — to direct claims for personal injury and wrongful death into a trust....
...She has been praised by Lyft co-founder John Zimmer for her team’s ability to manage “disparate practice areas such as personal injury, regulatory, intellectual property, employment and privacy”....
...But most people struggle without personal space....
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