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WILMINGTON, Del, Nov 2 (Reuters) - An associate of Georgia-Pacific LLC, which makes Brawny cardboard towels, has filed for U.S. Chapter 11 defalcation amidst aerial costs of arresting adjoin claims its articles acquired asbestos-related diseases, according to a aggregation annual on Thursday.
The affiliate, Bestwall LLC, joins array of U.S. manufacturers that accept filed for defalcation due to asbestos litigation, and comes as the U.S. Congress mulls a bill that plaintiffs' attorneys say would abash asbestos claims.
Georgia-Pacific is artless by the filing and Bestwall will abide operating normally, the annual said.
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Bestwall's acknowledged costs from asbestos accept risen to an boilerplate of $160 actor a year, up from $6 actor a year above-mentioned to 2000, according to aggregation filings.
Asbestos is a artlessly occurring mineral already admired for its attrition to calefaction but its fibers can annual baleful cancers, including mesothelioma, and leads to bags of U.S. deaths annually, according to government statistics.
A bill accepted as the FACT Act has been alien in the U.S. House that proponents altercate would afford ablaze on accessible counterfeit asbestos claims, although critics say it will accomplish it harder for bodies sickened by asbestos to get compensation.
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In 1965, Georgia-Pacific acquired a maker of collective admixture that independent asbestos. Georgia-Pacific, which is endemic by Koch Industries Inc, accomplished authoritative the admixture with asbestos in 1977.
Since then, the aggregation has spent $2.9 billion in acknowledged costs on asbestos cases and is currently arresting about 62,000 such cases.
According to Bestwall, its articles annual for a tiny all-embracing allotment of asbestos exposure, but it has been called in up to 80 percent of mesothelioma cases filed anniversary year. Asbestos lawsuits about name assorted manufacturers as defendants.
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Asbestos action has amount added than $50 billion in advantage and acknowledged fees and has affected about 100 U.S. companies into bankruptcy, including actinic aggregation W.R. Grace and architecture articles aggregation Owens Corning Corp.
Bankrupt companies and asbestos plaintiffs about accede to authorize and accounts a assurance for approaching claims. The aggregation exits defalcation cloistral from approaching asbestos lawsuits.
However, abounding trusts are active low on banknote and accept bargain payouts, and business groups adduce that has prompted plaintiffs to focus on suing non-bankrupt companies, alike if plaintiffs alone had a bound acknowledgment to a company's product.
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Allegations of counterfeit asbestos claims were a axial allotment of the defalcation of Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, which filed in 2010 the aforementioned cloister in Charlotte as Bestwall. (Editing by Noeleen Walder and Bernadette Baum)
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