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...John McQuater, chair of the civil justice committee at the Law Society and a personal injury specialist at Switalskis Solicitors, said there had “understandably been a lot of focus” on the backlog of cases...
...The US conglomerate, which is best known for making Post-it notes and Scotch tape, previously attempted to settle the personal injury cases through a complex bankruptcy scheme involving a subsidiary....
...All of them are facing billions of dollars in asbestos-related personal injury litigation....
...handle personal 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”....
...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...
...asbestos, in violation of consumer protection laws....
...billions of dollars of personal injury claims....
...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....
...J&J’s deployment of the “Texas two-step” has cast a spotlight on the use by companies of select US bankruptcy courts to cap personal injury awards and bolster leverage with claimants....
...I also note the personal courage of one of my predecessors, my RHF from Bromsgrove, in talking about the tragedy of suicide and the importance of preventing it....
...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...
...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 Ministry of Justice declined to let the FT visit the prison and refused a request to interview any managers or officials....
...It is too late for that, considering the UK Foreign Office’s latest official travel advice....
...Officials have already taken steps to reduce supposedly bogus personal injury claims, including cracking down on companies that bombard the public with messages encouraging them to make claims....
...Paul Geddes, chief executive of the country’s biggest motor insurer, said officials should seize the moment after recent legal changes introduced to curtail bogus personal injury claims helped to lower consumers...
...claimants for profit....
...The two co-chairmen of the plaintiff’s steering committee, selected to run their side of the case, are Jim Roy, a seasoned campaigner in maritime personal injury cases, and Herman, the scion of one of New...
...The personal injury compensation system should be overhauled immediately, insurers urged on Tuesday, to save millions of days spent on legal wrangling and hundreds of millions of pounds in costs....
...Instead, the number of new claimants with industrial injuries and diseases has declined, so those with mental conditions now account for a higher proportion of the inflow....
...mass litigation against multinationals in areas ranging from personal injury to price-fixing....
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