HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – As the deadline for unsealing the estimation record of the Garlock Sealing Technologies bankruptcy proceeding draws nearer, talks of asbestos trust transparency are on the rise. But three asbestos plaintiffs’ attorneys argue that many arguments in support of transparency aren’t quite what they seem, calling them “nothing more than tort reform.”
In an article with the Widener Law Journal titled “Clearing up the False Premises Underlying the Push for Asbestos Trust ‘Transparency,’” attorneys Bruce Mattock and Jason Shipp, of the Goldberg, Persky & White law firm in Pittsburgh, and Andrew Sackett, of the Caplin & Drysdale law firm in Washington, D.C., address why they believe transparency is unfair, unnecessary and burdensome.
