Lawyer Says Manville Trust Unlawfully Disallowed Submission Of His Claims

Mealey's ( September 23, 2015, 2:25 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The trustees of the asbestos trust established in the landmark Chapter 11 case of Johns-Manville Corp. abused their discretion and breached their fiduciary duties of impartiality and loyalty when they decided to disallow the submission of claims from a California attorney based on allegations that he has filed unreliable claim-related evidence with other asbestos personal injury settlement trusts, the attorney said Sept. 21 in his answer to the Johns-Manville trust’s declaratory judgment adversary complaint (In re Johns-Manville Corporation, et al., No. 82-11656 [Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust v. Michael J. Mandelbrot and The Mandelbrot Law Firm, No. 15-01296], S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.)....

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