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  • November 24, 2025

    Bankruptcy Judge Allows 2 Proofs Of Claim For Tort Cases Against Imerys Talc

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge allowed two proofs of claim worth a total of $22 million filed in the asbestos talc Chapter 11 case of Imerys Talc America Inc. by an insurer seeking indemnification for appeal bonds it posted in two state court tort cases that Imerys lost, finding that the claims are not subject to bar dates that were established in the bankruptcy case.

  • November 24, 2025

    Company Points To More Evidence Supporting Mesothelioma-Talc Subpoena

    NEW YORK — A fourth ruling confirms that a subpoena properly targeted information about a study of individuals who developed mesothelioma and whose only known exposure to asbestos was through talc, a company told a federal judge in New York in opposing a sanctions.

  • November 24, 2025

    Bankruptcy Trustee Looks To Close Chapter 11 Case Of Cosmetics Company

    LOS ANGELES — The trustee in the Chapter 11 Subchapter V asbestos talc case of family-run cosmetics company Ben Nye Co. Inc. says a California federal bankruptcy court should enter a final decree closing the proceeding after a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed confirmation of the company’s plan of reorganization.

  • November 19, 2025

    Delaware Court Stays Case During Asbestos Bankruptcy Document Appeal

    WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delaware Chancery Court granted a stipulated stay on Nov. 18 after certifying an interlocutory appeal of its ruling allowing asbestos litigants to proceed on their case seeking to enjoin asbestos bankruptcy trusts from destroying claims documents.

  • November 18, 2025

    J-MM Revives RICO Claims Against Asbestos Litigation Firm

    CHICAGO — In a newly refiled complaint, J-M Manufacturing Co. Inc. (J-MM) claims that the Simmons Hanley Conroy and Sokolove law firm and its partners and lawyers operate a complex nationwide scheme that funnels asbestos cases to the firm, which then crafts a narrative on which its clients can rely.

  • November 18, 2025

    Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Denies Avon Insurers’ Bid To Stay Plan Pending Appeal

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Certain insurers of talc debtor AIO US Inc. did not show that they will be irreparably harmed if the confirmation order for the company’s Chapter 11 plan of liquidation is allowed to stand, so their motion to stay the ruling while they appeal the decision fails, a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge said.

  • November 17, 2025

    Rehearing Not Needed For 3rd Circuit’s Dismissal Rejection, Talc Debtor Argues

    PHILADELPHIA — Defunct talc supplier and debtor Whittaker, Clark & Daniels Inc. pushed back at asbestos claimants’ request that the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rehear a panel’s affirmance of a New Jersey federal bankruptcy judge’s denial of a bid to dismiss the debtor’s Chapter 11 case, asserting in a response brief that the case “is an exceptionally poor candidate for rehearing.”

  • November 14, 2025

    Dismissal Of ‘Texas Two-Step’ Asbestos Bankruptcies Rejected Again

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge denied a consolidated request by asbestos claimants in two bankruptcy cases of debtors created under Texas divisional merger law for leave to appeal the denial of their motions to dismiss the Chapter 11 cases, finding that the proposed interlocutory appeals lack a “controlling question of law.”

  • November 14, 2025

    J&J Asks Court To Delay Judgment After $966M Asbestos-Talc Verdict

    LOS ANGELES — Johnson & Johnson defended its request that a California court not enter judgment on an asbestos verdict that included $950 million in punitive damages, arguing that it would be unfair to make what it calls a clearly unconstitutional award enforceable.

  • November 12, 2025

    J&J Entity, Medical Group Debate Motion To Compel In Asbestos-Talc Study Case

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York will decide whether a subpoena to a health care provider seeks relevant information about the authors of an asbestos-talc study or is simply “a huge net” hoping to find something among millions of emails and other documents after briefing on a motion to compel ended with a Johnson & Johnson spinoff’s reply in support of the motion.

  • November 11, 2025

    N.J. Bankruptcy Judge Closes Presperse Corp.’s Talc Chapter 11 Case

    TRENTON, N.J. — A federal bankruptcy judge in New Jersey has issued a final decree closing the Chapter 11 case of former talc supplier Presperse Corp. about 14 months after the company filed for bankruptcy in the wake of a nearly $5 million loss the previous fiscal year partly due to litigation costs and settlement payments for asbestos personal injury claims.

  • November 07, 2025

    Insured Appeals $348,000 Award In Asbestos Indemnity Coverage Case

    NEW ORLEANS — An insurance company filed a notice indicating that it would appeal a decision finding it liable for the defense of an asbestos suit in a case in which a federal judge in Louisiana awarded $348,000 for breach of contract but finding that its arguments were not frivolous.

  • November 05, 2025

    Expert Opposes Sanction For Asbestos-Talc Study Email Destruction

    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — There was no way to know that defendants would want an expert’s emails about a study, more than three years before the filing of a trade libel case, and even if the originals were deleted, Pecos River Talc LLC never investigated whether it could obtain the evidence through other means, an asbestos-talc expert tells a federal judge in Virginia in opposing sanctions for evidence spoliation.

  • November 03, 2025

    Oil Company Disputes Need For Rehearing In Appeal Of Dismissed Asbestos Case

    JACKSON, Miss. — An oil company told a Mississippi appellate court that a woman merely rehashes already rejected arguments about why she didn’t pursue her asbestos personal injury case that was pending for nine years and isn’t entitled to reconsideration of a ruling affirming dismissal for lack of prosecution while she litigated parallel bankruptcy-related issues.

  • November 03, 2025

    4th Circuit Denies Full Court Rehearing For Georgia-Pacific Debtor’s Case

    RICHMOND, Va. — The full Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an 8-6 vote declined to rehear a divided panel’s decision affirming a North Carolina federal bankruptcy judge’s denial of asbestos claimants’ bid to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of Georgia-Pacific spinoff Bestwall LLC, with one judge saying in dissent that en banc rehearing was needed due to the “exceptional importance” of the case.

  • October 31, 2025

    J&J Appeals After New Trial Effort Denied In $25M Asbestos-Talc Case

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Johnson & Johnson filed a notice that it would appeal a Connecticut verdict in which the judge awarded $10 million in punitive damages and declined to grant a new trial in the wake of a $25 million asbestos-talc verdict against the company and various related entities.

  • October 30, 2025

    Florida Jury Awards $20 Million In Asbestos-Talc Mesothelioma Case Against J&J

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida jury awarded $20 million to a man for his father’s death from mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talc-based consumer products, sources told Mealey Publications.

  • October 30, 2025

    New York Top Court Turns Away Causation, Damages Challenge In Asbestos Case

    NEW YORK — The New York Court of Appeals denied a motion for leave to appeal in a case in which a lower court found that testimony from an industrial hygienist and thoracic surgeon satisfied the specific causation standard in New York and that precluding a boiler company from cross-examining the surgeon about exposures for which it had not established liability was not an error.

  • October 30, 2025

    Judge Dismisses Claims In Asbestos Liability Suit Against Guaranty Association

    BATON ROUGE, La. — After parties filed a status report indicating a resolution of claims, a Louisiana federal judge dismissed claims against certain of the parties in an asbestos liability suit against individuals and multiple entities, including the Louisiana Guaranty Association (LIGA), alleging that a man’s workplace exposure to asbestos particles resulted in his lung disease and death.

  • October 29, 2025

    Delaware Vice Chancellor Allows Challenge To Asbestos Trust Record Rules

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Companies frequently named in asbestos litigation likely have only one avenue to obtain information on plaintiffs’ asbestos trust claims crucial to the defense of suits and may continue with their challenge to trust rules that would preserve those filings for only a year, a Delaware vice chancellor said in denying a motion to dismiss.

  • October 29, 2025

    Denial Of Dismissal Of Talc Supplier’s Bankruptcy Needs Rehearing, Amici Say

    PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s affirmance of a New Jersey federal bankruptcy judge’s denial of a bid to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of defunct talc supplier Whittaker, Clark & Daniels Inc. deserves to be reheard because the ruling “imperils states’ advocacy for their residents when corporations violate the law and then declare bankruptcy,” the District of Columbia and 14 states say in an amicus curiae brief.

  • October 27, 2025

    Asbestos Defendant Points To Recent Rulings In Defending Expert Subpoena

    NEW YORK — A trio of courts recently affirmed the validity of subpoenas targeting asbestos expert Jacqueline Moline, and those rulings support the conclusion that a previous effort to subpoena the expert was not sanctionable conduct, a defendant tells a federal judge in New York in opposing a hospital’s motion for sanctions.

  • October 22, 2025

    Supplier Presperse Corp. Looks To Close Chapter 11 Talc Case

    TRENTON, N.J. — Former talc supplier Presperse Corp. seeks a final decree closing its Chapter 11 case in New Jersey federal bankruptcy court, saying the case has been “fully administered” and all talc personal injury claims have been channeled by an injunction to the asbestos trust established by the plan.

  • October 22, 2025

    Louisiana High Court Won’t Review Asbestos Liability Row With Guaranty Association

    NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) seeking review of an appellate court’s reversal of a ruling granting summary judgment to an insurer and to LIGA but denying a motion for partial summary judgment filed by family members in a dispute over their deceased relative’s death purportedly from asbestos exposure.

  • October 21, 2025

    Judge: J&J Won’t Get Access To Asbestos Expert’s Lab But Can Depose Employee

    TRENTON, N.J. — Allowing Johnson & Johnson entities to inspect expert William Longo’s laboratory at this stage would be too burdensome, but they may depose one of his employees on past testing methods, the judge overseeing the federal multidistrict talc litigation in New Jersey said Oct. 20 in partially sustaining objections to a special master’s ruling.