Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts
Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts

Author: Lloyd S. Dixon

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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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.

Asbestos Litigation
Asbestos Litigation

Author: Stephen J. Carroll

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2005-07-07

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0833040529

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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.

Global Risk Governance
Global Risk Governance

Author: Ortwin Renn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1402067992

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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