http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/news.aspx Headline Asbestos Bankruptcy Legal News from LexisNexis® en-us http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/images/lexismealeyslogo.gif 130 29 http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/news.aspx Copyright 2020 http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%201%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - Paddock Enterprises LLC on Jan. 6 became the latest corporate victim to using asbestos in products, with the company filing a Chapter 11 petition in Delaware federal bankruptcy court after a December restructuring of the world's largest glass bottle manufacturer left it holding all asbestos liabilities from the parent's production of thermal insulation products in the 1950s (In re Paddock Enterprises, LLC, No. 20-10028, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%202%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A newly formed affiliate of frequent asbestos personal injury defendant CertainTeed LLC filed a Chapter 11 petition on Jan. 23 in North Carolina federal bankruptcy court looking to permanently resolve CertainTeed's asbestos liabilities through establishment of a settlement trust (In re DBMP LLC, No. 3:20-bk-30080, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%203%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - A couple's asbestos personal injury claims against Chapter 11 debtor Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc. will be heard in New York state court; a federal judge on Jan. 15 remanded the case because the debtor removed it too late (Anna Nocelli, et al. v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al., No. 1:19-cv-1980, S.D. N.Y., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9025). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%204%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chapter 11 debtor Bestwall LLC, affiliate Georgia-Pacific LLC and asbestos claimants' representatives will hit the bargaining table to come up with a way for Bestwall to shed its asbestos liabilities through a bankruptcy trust, with two mediation sessions scheduled under an agreed order filed Dec. 18 in North Carolina federal bankruptcy court (In re Bestwall LLC, No. 17-31795, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%205%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - Disputes among Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc., one of its insurers and tort claimants' representatives are headed to mediation, with a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on Dec. 26 approving a two-day negotiating session requested by the parties (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%206%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware federal judge has taken the advice of a magistrate judge and withdrawn a dispute between insurers of former Chapter 11 debtor W.R. Grace & Co. and Montana state court asbestos personal injury claimants from mandatory mediation to let the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decide whether to hear an appeal in the case, according to a Nov. 26 district court docket entry (Continental Casualty Co., et al. v. Jeremy B. Carr, et al., No. 1:19-cv-1871, D. Del.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%207%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - A bankruptcy court's ruling on a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final, appealable order, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jan. 14 in upholding a decision by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC, No. 18-938, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. LEXIS 526). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%208%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' PHILADELPHIA - The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 22 said it wants to know what asbestos claimants and Chapter 11 debtor Energy Future Holdings Corp. (EFH) think about the impact a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has on their dispute over the constitutionality of discharging claims of future but yet unknown disease sufferers (In re: Energy Future Holdings, et al., No. 19-1430, 3rd Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%209%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - New Chapter 11 debtor Paddock Enterprises LLC asked a Delaware federal bankruptcy court on Jan. 22 to appoint a longtime advocate for future asbestos disease sufferers in corporate bankruptcies as the future claimants' representative (FCR) for its case (In re Paddock Enterprises, LLC, No. 20-10028, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2010%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A North Carolina federal judge on Jan. 17 declined to reconsider his decision to stay a declaratory judgment dispute between Chapter 11 debtors Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc. and Hanson Permanente Cement Inc. and their main asbestos insurer pending resolution of the debtors' plans to reorganize (Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al., No. 3:19-cv-467, W.D. N.C.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2011%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TACOMA, Wash. - A Washington federal bankruptcy court's denial of an insurer's bid to vacate a stay order barring its contribution claims against other insurers for asbestos claims against Chapter 11 debtor Fraser's Boiler Service Inc. is only an interlocutory ruling and is therefore not appealable, the other insurers, who have settled with the debtor, say in a Jan. 10 appellee brief in federal court (National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA v. Fraser's Boiler Service, Inc., et al., No. 3:19-cv-5648, W.D. Wash.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2012%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - A New York federal bankruptcy judge issued a scheduling order Jan. 16 for resolution of the remaining issues in a long-running dispute between Chapter 11 debtor Rapid-American Corp. and insurers over coverage for asbestos liability while the parties await his ruling on their last round of summary judgment briefing (Rapid-American Corporation, et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company, et al., No. 15-01095, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2013%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on Dec. 26 gave Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. and affiliates three more months to propose a plan of reorganization on their own (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2014%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - With Chapter 11 debtors Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc. and Hanson Permanente Cement Inc. making progress on reorganizing by resolving asbestos claims, a North Carolina federal bankruptcy judge on Dec. 20 gave the companies three more months to remove any lawsuit filed against them to federal court (In re Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al., No. 16-31602, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2015%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW ORLEANS - A Louisiana jury in October 2019 awarded $8,214,479.35 to the widow and four children of a man exposed to asbestos as an insulator, sources told Mealey Publications (Elray Lege, et al. v. Union Carbide, et al., No. 2016-5598, La. Dist., Orleans Parish). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2016%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - Plaintiffs' premature disclosure of the deposition testimony of Johnson & Johnson's chief executive officer warrants an award of fees and costs, a New York justice held Jan. 17. But whether the plaintiffs are entitled to depose more company employees is a question for the special master, he said (Donald Minassian, et al. v. Brenntag North America, et al., No. 190399/2018, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2017%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LOS ANGELES - A trial court did not err in rejecting a couple's challenges to expert testimony that talc was free of asbestos, and because they offered no competing expert testimony, the judge properly granted summary judgment, a California appeals court held Jan. 22 (Ann Patrice Gibbons, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., No. B288031, Calif. App., 2nd Dist.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2018%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Having never previously suggested that producing records of pre-2002 asbestos litigation posed a burden, Honeywell International Inc. cannot reasonably rely on the argument in a motion for reconsideration, a federal magistrate judge in Kentucky said Jan. 6 (Jack Papineau, et al. v. Brake Supply Company Inc., et al., No. 18-168, W.D. Ky.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2019%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis jury on Dec. 20 returned a verdict for Johnson & Johnson in a case in which the plaintiff claimed that asbestos in the company's talc product led her to develop ovarian cancer (Vickie Forrest v. Johnson & Johnson, et al., No. 1522-CC00419-01, Mo. Cir., St. Louis Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-6%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2020%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHICAGO - An appellate court improperly ignored precedent and failed to perform a meaningful analysis before finding that sufficient evidence supported conspiracy claims in an asbestos case, a divided Illinois Supreme Court held Dec. 19 (John Jones, et al. v. Pneumo Abex, et al., Nos. 123895, 124002, Ill. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%201%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' RICHMOND, Va. - The asbestos claimants' committee in the Chapter 11 case of Bestwall LLC lost its bid to appeal the denial of its motion to dismiss the debtor's case for filing it in bad faith when the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals entered an order Nov. 14 denying permission to appeal (Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Bestwall, LLC v. Bestwall LLC, No. 19-408, 4th Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%202%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - Insurers of Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. will pay more than $7 million to lawyers and other professionals to satisfy their claims for prepetition defense costs under a settlement agreement approved Dec. 13 by a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%203%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on Dec. 17 approved a settlement allowing Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. to pay a law firm more than $500,000 for work done preparing the talc supplier to file for bankruptcy, after altering the deal at the urging of the U.S. Trustee's Office (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%204%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - One asbestos trust's fight for indemnification from another trust for settlement payments to asbestos disease sufferers ended Dec. 9 when the parties stipulated to dismiss an adversary case, according to a stipulation and order signed by a New York federal bankruptcy judge (Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust v. Thorpe Insulation Company Asbestos Settlement Trust, No. 1:17-ap-1186, S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%205%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' MINNEAPOLIS - A trial court properly analyzed all eight factors in awarding a terminated law firm a portion of a $21.5 million settlement an asbestos trust received in an insurance dispute, a Minnesota appeals court held Dec. 2 (Faricy Law Firm PA v. API Inc., Asbestos Settlement Trust, No. A19-0846, Minn. App., 2019 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1118). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%206%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A North Carolina federal bankruptcy judge will reconsider part of her ruling issuing an injunction in the Chapter 11 case of Bestwall LLC protecting the debtor and affiliates, including Georgia-Pacific LLC, from asbestos claims, according to a Nov. 20 docket entry (Bestwall LLC v. Those Parties Listed on Appendix A to Complaint, et al., No. 17-03105, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%207%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A request by Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. to set a bar date for filing indirect talc claims gained approval from a Delaware federal bankruptcy judge Nov. 22 over the objections of insurers who said the debtor was not allowed to restrict claims by nondebtor parties (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%208%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - Supplemental authority provided by an asbestos plaintiff's law firm to support its position that its client, not the firm, is the real party in interest for claims against a debtor's insurance broker actually back the broker's position that the mislabeling of parties renders the claims invalid, the broker says in its Dec. 16 letter to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in reply (In re Johns-Manville Corp., Marsh USA, Inc. v. The Bogdan Law Firm, No. 18-2531, 2nd Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%209%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on Nov. 22 approved "key employee" retention and incentive programs for Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. that include more than $1.4 million in payments to two executives and 16 members of the company's management team (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2010%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. on Dec. 6 asked a Delaware federal bankruptcy court to give it three more months to propose a plan of reorganization, saying the extension is "both appropriate and necessary" for a successful reorganization (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2011%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LOS ANGELES - Johnson & Johnson prevailed in the latest lawsuit claiming that asbestos in its baby powder caused a woman's mesothelioma after a California jury found in its favor on Dec. 16, sources told Mealey Publications (Pui Fong, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, No. BC675449, Calif. Super., Los Angeles Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2012%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' AKRON, Ohio - A trial court improperly granted summary judgment on an asbestos causation argument the defendant never raised and compounded it by imposing a substantial factor causation standard not in light with the featherweight causation standard applied in Jones Act cases, an Ohio court held in reversing judgment in favor of an employer on Dec. 9 (Diane Shaffer, et al. v. A.W. Chesterton Co., et al., No. 18CA011440, Ohio App., 9th Dist., 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 5097). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2013%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW ORLEANS - A jury's issued an "unconscionably low" award given the evidence of a mesothelioma sufferer's pain and suffering, a Louisiana court held Dec. 11 (Jerry Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corp., et al., No. 2019-CA-0414, La. App., 4th Dist., 2019 La. App. Unpub. LEXIS 336). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2014%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A jury in New York's Monroe County awarded $8 million to a civil engineer who suffered occupational asbestos exposure during the monitoring and inspection of spray insulation (Wayne W. Meissner, et al. v. Ridge Construction Corp., et al., No. 2018007953, N.Y. Sup., Monroe Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2015%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - The total compensatory award and not the resulting judgment after apportionment of fault determines whether an verdict is excessive, the Delaware Supreme Court held Dec. 2 in remanding an asbestos case so the trial court could determine the appropriateness of a $40 million verdict (In re: Asbestos Litigation, Ford Motor Co. v. Paula Knecht, et al. No. 90,2019, Del. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-5%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2016%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHICAGO - Because the question of who would be liable for a judgment in a state court asbestos action will certainly be answered in that case, there is no reason for a federal court to weigh in on the question, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Nov. 19 (Deborah Amling, et al v. Harrow Industries LLC, et al., No. 19-1805, 7th Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%201%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - A New York federal judge on Nov. 13 declined to review a bankruptcy court's ruling in a dispute between two asbestos trusts over indemnification for the payment of claims, saying an interlocutory review would not help resolve the row (Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust v. Thorpe Insulation Company Asbestos Settlement Trust, No. 19-04039, S.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197020). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%202%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. on Nov. 1 sought permission from Delaware federal bankruptcy court to offer more than $1.4 million in incentive and retention payments to two executives and 16 members of the company's management team to help "ensure a successful outcome" of the bankruptcy case (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%203%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A request by Chapter 11 debtor Imerys Talc America Inc. to set a bar date for filing indirect talc claims should be denied because the debtor is not allowed to restrict claims by nondebtor parties, especially when the term "indirect" is so ill-defined in the request, a group of insurers say in a Nov. 18 objection filed in Delaware federal bankruptcy court (In re: Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 19-10289, D. Del. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%204%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - A dispute between insurers of former Chapter 11 debtor W.R. Grace & Co. and Montana state court asbestos personal injury claimants will not be settled on appeal to federal district court but instead will be decided by the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a Delaware federal magistrate judge says in an Oct. 30 recommendation to forgo mediation (Continental Casualty Co., et al. v. Jeremy B. Carr, et al., No. 1:19-cv-1871, D. Del., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 188053). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%205%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TACOMA, Wash. - A Washington federal court should uphold a bankruptcy court's denial of an insurer's bid to vacate a stipulated order barring its contribution claims against other insurers for asbestos claims against Chapter 11 debtor Fraser's Boiler Service Inc., the debtor argues in an Oct. 28 response brief on appeal (National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA v. Fraser's Boiler Service, Inc., et al., No. 3:19-cv-5648, W.D. Wash.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%206%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Putting off an attempt by an asbestos insurer to have a jury hear its declaratory judgment claims against Chapter 11 debtors Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc. and Hanson Permanente Cement Inc. will only cause unnecessary delay and prejudice, the insurer argues in an Oct. 30 reply brief in North Carolina federal court (Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al., No. 3:19-cv-467, W.D. N.C.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%207%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TRENTON, N.J. - Over the objections of an insurer, a New Jersey federal bankruptcy judge on Nov. 12 allowed seriously ill asbestos disease sufferers to sidestep the automatic stay in the Chapter 11 case of Duro Dyne National Corp. so they can be deposed before they die (In re: Duro Dyne National Corp., et al., No. 18-27963, D. N.J. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%208%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The committee representing asbestos claimants in the Chapter 11 case of Bestwall LLC insists in an Oct. 21 reply brief that a North Carolina federal bankruptcy judge's issuance of an injunction protecting the debtor and affiliates, including Georgia-Pacific LLC, from asbestos claims meets the standards for reconsideration (Bestwall LLC v. Those Parties Listed on Appendix A to Complaint, et al., No. 17-03105, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%209%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A cement company will have more than $17,000 in allowed, unsecured claims in the Chapter 11 case of Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc. and Hanson Permanente Cement Inc. to settle claims against the debtors for cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Washington, with a North Carolina federal bankruptcy judge approving the deal in a Nov. 14 minute order (In re Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al., No. 16-31602, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2010%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW ORLEANS - A federal jury in Louisiana on Nov. 8 awarded $7,750,661.45 after finding that a man's mesothelioma arose as a result of exposure to asbestos the man experienced while employed as a chemical engineer (James L. Gaddy v. Taylor-Seidenbach Inc., et al., No. 19-12926, E.D. La.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2011%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' ST. LOUIS - A Missouri court on Nov. 7 entered a mandate finding that a Missouri trial court lacked jurisdiction over a Virginia resident's ovarian cancer case that produced a $110 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its talc supplier (Lois Slemp v. Johnson & Johnson, et al., No. ED106190, E.D. Mo.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2012%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LOS ANGELES - A California jury on Oct. 11 handed Johnson & Johnson its latest victory in asbestos-talc litigation, finding that a man suffering from mesothelioma had not been exposed to asbestos in the company's baby powder (George Crudge, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, No. BC685901, Calif. Super., Los Angeles Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2013%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 14 partially granted and partially denied a petition by numerous environmental advocacy groups that challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Evaluation Rule (RER) for determining the proper uses for various chemicals. The panel concluded that the petitioners' opposition to the EPA's exclusion of "legacy uses" and "associated disposals" from the definition of "conditions of use" was valid (Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., No. 17-72260 [consolidated], 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 34064). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=19-4%20Mealey%27s%20Asb.%20Bankr.%20Rep.%2014%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - Colgate-Palmolive Corp.'s presence in New York, as well as a woman's use of its talcum powder there, keeps an action in the state, a justice held in declining to dismiss a flight attendant's asbestos action for forum non conveniens in an opinion posted Nov. 6 (Linda English, et al. v. Avon Products Inc., et al., No. 190346/2018, N.Y. Sup., New York Co., 2019 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 5901).