Asbestos Litigation

Asbestos Litigation
Author: Stephen J. Carroll
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2005-07-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0833040529

Asbestos litigation is the longest-running mass tort litigation in U.S. history. Through 2002, approximately 730,000 individuals have brought claims against some 8,400 business entities, and defendants and insurers have spent a total of $70 billion on litigation. Building on previous RAND briefings, the authors report on what happened to those who have claimed injury from asbestos, what happened to the defendants in those cases, and how lawyers and judges have managed the cases.

Maryland Reports

Maryland Reports
Author: Maryland. Court of Appeals
Publisher:
Total Pages: 840
Release: 2011
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts

Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts
Author: Lloyd S. Dixon
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This report describes the creation, organization, and operation of asbestos personal-injury trusts and compiles publicly available information on the assets, outlays, and governing boards of the 26 largest trusts. The authors find that the publicly available information provides a rich source of information on trust activity but that more detailed information is needed to determine their impact on important compensation outcomes.

Global Risk Governance

Global Risk Governance
Author: Ortwin Renn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402067992

The establishment of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) was the direct result of widespread concern that the complexity and interdependence of health, environmental, and technological risks facing the world was making the development and implementation of adequate risk governance strategies ever more difficult. This volume details the IRGC developed and proposed framework for risk governance and covers how it was peer reviewed as well as tested