Bankruptcy's effect on product identification in asbestos personal injury cases / Lloyd Dixon and Geoffrey McGovern.
2015
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Author
Title
Bankruptcy's effect on product identification in asbestos personal injury cases / Lloyd Dixon and Geoffrey McGovern.
Published
Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
KF1526 .D59 2015
ISBN
0833090186
9780833090188
9780833090188
Description
xix, 53 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)910702038
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).
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Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
iii
Figures and Tables
ix
Summary
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Abbreviations
xix
ch. One
Introduction and Background on Asbestos Bankruptcies
1
The Importance of Evidence of Exposures to the Products of Bankrupt Parties
3
Previous Investigations of Bankruptcy's Effect on Product Identification
8
ch. Two
Data Used to Assess Bankruptcy's Impact on Product Identification
13
Case Selection
13
Collection of Case Documents
16
Coding of Case Documents
21
Firm Selection
23
Definition of Product-Identification Rates
23
ch. Three
Findings
25
Bankruptcy's Effect on What Products Are Identified in Interrogatories
25
Findings When We Include the Products Identified in Depositions
32
ch. Four
Discussion
37
Appendixes
A.
Firms Whose Product Identification We Analyzed
41
B.
Alternative Approaches for Estimating Bankruptcy's Effect on Product Identification
45
References
51