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...Last year, a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 12mn Ohio residents failed because PFAS levels in residents could not be apportioned to individual defendants, including 3M....
...This is not an exhaustive list; there are other losses you can seek from the defendant. Generally, asbestosis and pleural thickening cases attract settlements of £20,000 to £60,000....
...“Have defendants ever been concerned about speed or fairness for the plaintiffs? I think defendants are all about delay,” says Burch....
...One option for the eventual settlement is to create a fund for victims’ claims, as was done in the cases against bankrupt asbestos companies, he said....
...John Fund accused Halliburton of making several misrepresentations from 1999 to 2001 regarding its potential liability in asbestos lawsuits to inflate its stock price....
...As of its April 2001 filing date, WR Grace was a defendant in over 65,000 asbestos-related suits involving nearly 130,000 people....
...The ferry on which the loan had been secured had no value and was in fact a significant net liability as it was contaminated with asbestos and was no longer watertight....
...In fact the ferry had no value, was contaminated with asbestos and was not watertight....
...Against this formidable legal tide, BP has few options except to fight where it can and try to spread the pain a bit among other defendants, legal experts say....
...judicial hellhole” between 2002 and 2004, blaming freehanded judges for turning the area into a hotspot for so-called “legal tourism” by allowing out-of-state plaintiffs to bring cases against out-of-state defendants...
...Mr Day says he was able to bring the case in London thanks to the 2005 European ruling, which gave any claimant an automatic right to sue in the defendant’s home country....
...It would be managed by the federal government but privately financed by asbestos defendants and insurers....
...The fund would have been managed by the federal government but privately financed by asbestos defendants and insurers....
...The fund would be managed by the federal government but privately financed by asbestos defendants and insurers....
...The fund would be managed by the federal government but privately financed by asbestos defendants and insurers. Negotiations on such a bill have been going on for over two years....
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