Honeywell International Inc. continues to face an asbestos-related declaratory judgment action in the Supreme Court of New York, County of New York.
In the second quarter of 2006, Travelers Casualty and Insurance Company filed the action against the Company and other…
The Travelers Companies, Inc.’s favorable prior year reserve development in the current quarter included a US$114 million after-tax (US$175 million pre-tax) increase to asbestos reserves, compared to a US$91 million after-tax (US$140 million pre-tax) increase in the prior year quarter,…
The Travelers Companies, Inc.’s net reserves for asbestos-related claims amounted to US$2.533 billion at and for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2011, compared with US$2.658 billion at and for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2010, according to the…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York, reversed the ruling of the Supreme Court, New York County, which favored Kerr Corporation in an asbestos case filed by Josephine Penn.
The case is styled Josephine Penn, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants v.…
Asbestos was discovered in Public School 143 in Corona, Queens, N.Y., where children had been attending kindergarten classes, the Daily News reports.
About 100 students from Public School 143 were removed from the annex in September 2011 after water leaks threatened…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York, reversed the ruling of the Supreme Court, New York County, in a case involving asbestos styled Continental Casualty Company, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Respondents v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, et al., Defendants-Respondents-Appellants,…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York, recalled its decision and vacated it in a case involving asbestos styled Josephine Penn, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Amchem Products, et al., Defendants, Kerr Corporation, Defendant- Respondent.
Judges Saxe, Friedman, Moskowitz, and…
After a two day hearing in federal court in Rochester, N.Y., U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa sentenced 54-year-old Keith Gordon-Smith to six years in prison on Sept. 21, 2011, for knowingly violating the Clean Air Act and making…
The U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, granted the application of the Kodak Occupational Accidental Death Insurance Plan (KOADI) and other defendants to dismiss an asbestos case involving Peggy A. Hall.
This is an action brought under ERISA, to…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York, affirmed the Jan. 15, 2010 ruling of the Workers’ Compensation Board, which ruled that the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier were not entitled to reimbursement from the Special Disability Fund.
The…