Asbestos Liability

Journal Article

Mar 9, 2016

Response to Inselbuch and Sackett's Critique of RAND Reports on Asbestos Trusts and Asbestos Litigation

RAND responds to a piece published in Mealey's Asbestos Bankruptcy Report that was critical of three RAND studies on asbestos litigation and bankruptcy trusts.

Report

May 21, 2015

Bankruptcy's Effect on Product Identification in Asbestos Personal Injury Cases

This report investigates whether bankruptcy reduces the likelihood that exposures to the asbestos-containing products of bankrupt parties will be identified in interrogatories and depositions.

Report

Aug 18, 2011

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Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts and Tort Compensation

This book examines how state tort laws and court proceedings consider the compensation available from asbestos bankruptcy trusts and the evidence submitted in trust claim forms, and how the establishment of the trusts can affect compensation.

Report

Jul 26, 2010

Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts: An Overview of Trust Structure and Activity with Detailed Reports on the Largest Trusts

This report describes the creation, organization, governance, and operation of asbestos personal-injury trusts and compiles information on the assets, outlays, claim-approval criteria, and governing boards of the 26 largest trusts.

Report

May 9, 2005

Asbestos Litigation

Presents the most comprehensive description to date of the longest-running mass tort litigation in U.S. history.

Periodical

Jan 1, 2005

RAND Review: Vol. 29, No. 2, Summer 2005

Addresses the public investments and infrastructures that could help a Palestinian state succeed; also reviews the thin deployment of U.S. Army forces and how better electronic prescribing systems could improve health care.

Report

Jan 1, 2004

Fashioning a National Resolution of Asbestos Personal Injury Litigation: A Reply to Professor Brickman

In this paper, reprinted from Cardozo Law Review, the author responds to Professor Brickman's analysis of the asbestos litigation problem, as well as to his proposal for a national administrative solution to the problem.

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