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Assessing The Coverage Carnage: Asbestos Liability And Insurance After Three Decades Of Dispute, Jeffrey W. Stempel Jan 2006

Assessing The Coverage Carnage: Asbestos Liability And Insurance After Three Decades Of Dispute, Jeffrey W. Stempel

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Often overlooked are the insurance issues related to asbestos and the degree to which the asbestos mass tort has changed the face of liability insurance and liability insurance law. The asbestos mass tort brought insurance coverage litigation into the big leagues of litigation, adjudication, and scholarly examination (although even the most rabid insurance coverage junkie would concede this is not much silver lining to the asbestos cloud). But after 30 years of big-time liability insurance coverage litigation involving asbestos or influenced by asbestos, what is the outcome? My assessment is:

1. Despite their protestations, insurers have not been unfairly treated …


Is Multidistrict Litigation A Just And Efficient Consolidation Technique? Using Diet Drug Litigation As A Model To Answer This Question, Danielle Oakley Jan 2006

Is Multidistrict Litigation A Just And Efficient Consolidation Technique? Using Diet Drug Litigation As A Model To Answer This Question, Danielle Oakley

Nevada Law Journal

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