Honeywell International Inc.’s asbestos liabilities for its Bendix friction materials business and its former North American Refractories Company (NARCO) unit were US$1.728 billion as of June 30, 2009.
Of this amount during the six months ended June 30, 2009, US$596 million…
The U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, denied plaintiffs’ Motion to Remand an asbestos case filed against Buffalo Pumps, Inc. (BP) and General Electric Company (GE).
The case is styled Beverly Murphy, et al., Plaintiffs v. General Electric Company, et al.,…
Honeywell International Inc.’s long-term asbestos-related liabilities were US$1.557 billion as of June 30, 2009, compared with US$1.538 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008.
The Company’s long-term asbestos-related liabilities were US$1.550 billion as of March 31, 2009. (Class Action Reporter, May 1,…
Honeywell International Inc.’s Bendix friction materials business faced 51,110 asbestos-related claims as of June 30, 2009, compared with 51,951 claims as of Dec. 31, 2008.
Bendix faced 51,791 unresolved asbestos claims during the three months ended March 31, 2009. (Class Action…
An appellate court, during the second quarter of 2009, upheld the Supreme Court of New York, County of New York’s ruling in favor of Honeywell International Inc.
In the second quarter of 2006, Travelers Casualty and Insurance Company filed a lawsuit…
Derrill and Carolyn Conley, on July 21, 2009, filed an asbestos lawsuit against 14 defendant corporations in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.
The Conleys claim Mr. Conley developed an asbestos-related disease during the course of his…
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, on May 28, 2009, issued an order confirming a Prepackaged Plan of Reorganization of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.’s subsidiary in the United States, TH Agriculture & Nutrition L.L.C. (THAN).
THAN…
The U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, issued rulings in the case styled Lamson & Sessions Co., et al., Plaintiff v. William D. Mundinger, et al., Defendant.
District Judge Christopher A. Boyko entered judgment in Case No. No.…
A New York Workers’ Compensation Board panel affirmed a workers’ compensation law judge’s decision disallowing an unnamed widow’s claim that the development of her husband’s lung cancer, and his subsequent death, were causally related to his exposure to asbestos at…
The Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County, upheld the ruling of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, which granted a protective order and summary judgment in favor of General Electric Company in an asbestos case filed…