Billion-dollar companies are using Charlotte’s bankruptcy court to dodge lawsuits from thousands of people who were sickened by asbestos, families and their lawyers say. Using a controversial legal ...

A federal lawsuit is accusing the Gori Law Firm in Edwardsville of coaching its clients to commit perjury and flooding courts in St. Clair and Madison counties with claims it knew were baseless to ...

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Tuesday’s argument in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Co. considered a technical question under the Bankruptcy Code, how to decide when an entity is a “party in interest” under the statute, ...

LANSING — Michigan lawmakers are aiming to crack down on asbestos-abatement companies by assessing a $100 notification fee, requiring background checks on contractors and mandating increased state ...

‘Companies need to be held accountable’ Held up by legal challenges, appellate reviews and other complications, the three bankruptcy cases have been pending in Charlotte’s bankruptcy court for years.

Peter “Lanny” Bergrud, pictured here as a young man, holds his daughter, Amy. Bergrud for years worked with asbestos-containing pipes made by CertainTeed. That, his daughter contends, is why he died ...