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...All of them are facing billions of dollars in asbestos-related personal injury litigation....
...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....
...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...
...A key feature of the manoeuvre is that personal injury claims are halted during the bankruptcy process, which can drag on for years....
...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...
...William Tong, the state of Connecticut’s attorney-general who had sued Purdue and members of the Sackler family, complained the settlement would void his state’s sovereign “police power”....
...Many of these were personal injury specialists, some from out of state who had set up shop in northern California after the fires....
...and repeatedly abused the trust of their customers.”...
...In June 2013, she won one of the most significant civil rights cases in US history, United States v Windsor....
...Madison County itself has a population of about 270,000 but has become famed for its liberal attitude towards tort law, attracting a host of class action law suits and personal injury claims....
...Washington State Plumbing & Pipefitting Pension Trust v....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...“ In spite of her personal views, Stowe has drawn up many pre-nups for her clients and has no objections to them in principle....
...One of America’s most important institutions – a symbol of the trust between generations – is also in need of wise and effective reform....
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