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A New Dimension to Asbestos-Related Bankruptcies?

A recent jury verdict in California threatens to break wide open the uneasy issue of aggregated insurance payments in asbestos litigation. <i>Fuller-Austin Insulation Co. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., et al.</i>, No. BC 116835 (Calif. Super. Los Angeles Co.). Its ramifications, however, reach far beyond insurance coverage litigation into every asbestos-related or mass tort bankruptcy.

19 minute read August 01, 2003 at 04:34 PM
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Mark D. Taylor And Jennifer D. Larkin
A New Dimension to Asbestos-Related Bankruptcies?

A recent jury verdict in California threatens to break wide open the uneasy issue of aggregated insurance payments in asbestos litigation. Fuller-Austin Insulation Co. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., et al., No.

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