Toxic Talc & Mesothelioma Wrongful Death Attorneys — Nicholas Barone Handled Vanderbilt’s Asbestos-Contaminated Talc as a Process Engineer at the General Electric Plant, 1965–1967, a Connecticut Jury Needed Two Hours to Find Reckless Indifference and Return a $15 Million Verdict After His Death — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Mining Companies That Suppressed Asbestos Knowledge, We Pursue Vanderbilt Minerals and Every Entity in the Industrial Talc Supply Chain, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Mesothelioma Cases, We Move to Preserve Corporate Testing Records, Geological Surveys and Coworker Statements Before the Bankruptcy Estate Transfer Erases Them, Talc and Asbestos Co-Occur Geologically and Industrial Talc Reached 50 to 70 Percent Asbestos Contamination, the Chapter 11 Trust Channels Claims But Actions Against Non-Bankrupt Supply-Chain Defendants Preserve Full Tort Value, the Discovery Rule Tolling the Limitations Clock Given Mesothelioma’s 20 to 50 Year Latency, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Vanderbilt Minerals Filed Bankruptcy — Your Mesothelioma Claim Is Not Gone You are reading the news that Vanderbilt Minerals filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and the first thought that hits you is the worst one: they filed bankruptcy, so my case is over. Maybe you worked at a General Electric plant in the 1960s, handling talc in molding compounds, and decades later the diagnosis came back as mesothelioma. Maybe your husband or your father did, and he is gone now, and you are left holding a disease you cannot see and a company that just walked into a federal courthouse in the Northern District of New York and asked the court to shield it from you. Here is the first thing we need you to hear, because it is true and because the company is counting on you not knowing it: the bankruptcy does not extinguish your claim. It creates a process for it. Asbestos bankruptcy trusts have distributed billions of dollars to victims over decades. The filing halts active lawsuits temporarily — but it also forces the company to set aside money to compensate people it harmed, and it opens a channel for claims that may not have…