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Asbestos

Starting with the Johns-Manville bankruptcy in 1986, Kinsella Media pioneered unprecedented notice programs to reach individuals with asbestos exposure and asbestos property damage. Over a million people have responded to our integrated media campaigns and extensive third-party communications.

Selected Case Experience: Asbestos

In re Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, No. 10-31607 (Bankr. W.D.N.C.).

Claimants: Asbestos-personal injury claimants alleging exposure to Garlock’s asbestos-containing gaskets and gasket material.
Notice Program: The bar date notice program included TV, Internet, national consumer magazines, legal publications, newspaper supplements, and newspapers advertising across the U.S. and its territories. Notice in Canada used TV and consumer publications. Kinsella Media also released a multimedia news release incorporating the TV spot.
Highlights: A website for asbestos claimants in simple, plain language was created to explain the bankruptcy and complicated matrix of claims that could be asserted.
Creative: View the TV spot, banner ad, and multimedia news release.

In re Owens Corning, No. 00-03837 (Bankr. D. Del.).

Claimants: Owens Corning creditors, bondholders, and asbestos personal injury claimants in the United States, and asbestos personal injury and asbestos property damage claimants internationally.
Notice Program: Multiple print vehicles were used to provide information on voting rights and submission of ballots in the U.S. Globally, notice was placed in 27 languages in 159 newspapers within 57 countries.

In re Johns-Manville Corp., 68 B.R. 618 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.).

In re Armstrong World Industries, Inc., No. 00-4471 (Bankr. D. Del.).

In re Swan Transportation Co., No. 01-11690 (Bankr. D. Del.).

In re USG Corporation, Nos. 01-2094 - 01-2104 (Bankr. D. Del.).

In re The Celotex Corp., 204 B.R. 586 (Bankr. M.D. Fla.).

In re Kaiser Aluminum Corp., No. 02-10429 (D. Del.).

In re Raytech Corp., No. 5-89-00293 (Bankr. D. Conn).

Ahearn v. Fibreboard Corp., No. 6:93cv526 (E.D. Tex.). & Continental Casualty Co. v. Rudd, No. 6:94cv458 (E.D. Tex.).

Georgine v. Amchem, Inc., No. 93-CV-0215 (E.D. Pa.).

"[A]ll counsel should be complimented on the fact that they have gone to every possible conceivable method of giving notice from putting it on TV and advertising it in papers ... [T]he record should also reflect the Court’s appreciation to Ms. Kinsella for all the work she’s done, not only in pure noticing, but ensuring that what noticing we did was done correctly and professionally."

— Judge Thomas E. Baynes, Jr.
In re The Celotex Corp., 204 B.R. 586 (Bankr. M.D. Fla.).

FEATURED MEDIA

In re Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, No. 10-31607 (Bankr. W.D.N.C.).