Asbestos

Starting with the notice program in the Johns-Manville bankruptcy proceeding in 1986, Kinsella Media’s expertise in identifying and reaching individuals with asbestos exposure and disease is unmatched. Campaigns have resulted in well over one million people responding to integrated outreach that included unprecedented third-party communication through labor unions, veteran and victim organizations, direct mail, national and spot television, national and international newspapers and consumer publications.

Selected Case Experience: Bankruptcy

In re W.R. Grace & Co

No. 01-01139 (Bankr. D. Del.)

Kinsella Media implemented three “bar date” notice programs in the United States and Canada using consumer magazines, trade publications, newspaper supplements, newspapers, national television spots and Internet banner ads directed to asbestos property damage claimants, general creditors and Zonolite Attic Insulation claimants. A website, print and television advertisements were produced in English, French Canadian and an aboriginal language (Inuktitut) for the Zonolite Attic Insulation notice program in Canada.

In re Owens Corning

No. 00-03837 (Bankr. D. Del.)

Kinsella Media implemented an international notice program in conjunction with the Sixth Amended Plan of Reorganization to advise all parties on voting rights and submission of ballots. Kinsella developed and placed multiple published notices to reach creditors, bond holders and asbestos personal injury claimants in the United States. Globally, notice directed to asbestos property damage and personal injury claimants was placed in 27 languages in 159 newspapers within 57 countries. The global notice provided in this case is one of the most extensive bankruptcy or class action notification campaigns ever undertaken.

In re Johns-Manville Corp.

68 B.R. 618 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)

In re Armstrong World Industries, Inc.

No. 00-4471 (Bankr. D. Del.)

In re Swan Transportation Company

No. 01-11690 (Bankr. D. Del.)

In re USG Corporation

Nos. 01-2094 - 01-2104 (Bankr. D. Del.)

In re The Celotex Corp.

204 B.R. 586 (Bankr. M.D. Fla.)

In re Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

No. 02-10429 (D. Del.)

In re Raytech Corp.

No. 5-89-00293 (Bankr. D. Conn)

Selected Case Experience: Class Actions

Ahearn v. Fibreboard Corp.

No. 6:93cv526 (E.D. Tex.) &

Continental Casualty Co. v. Rudd

No. 6:94cv458 (E.D. Tex.)

Beginning in 1993, Kinsella Media undertook the largest and most comprehensive class action notice program to date. This unprecedented program included a massive third-party outreach to persons potentially exposed to asbestos through their lines of work such as shipbuilders, longshoremen, prison staff, hospital administrators, veterans, oil refinery laborers and construction workers. The national paid media program in the United States included advertisements in numerous labor union newsletters, national and local newspapers, consumer magazines and spot television in both English and Spanish. In addition, an international paid media program incorporated a summary notice translated into ten languages and placed in 57 newspapers in 21 countries.

Georgine v. Amchem, Inc.

No. 93-CV-0215 (E.D. Pa.)

"[A]ll counsel should be complimented on the fact that they have gone to every possible conceivable method of giving notice from putting it on TV and advertising it in papers ... [T]he record should also reflect the Court’s appreciation to Ms. Kinsella for all the work she’s done, not only in pure noticing, but ensuring that what noticing we did was done correctly and professionally."

— Judge Thomas E. Baynes, Jr.
In re The Celotex Corp. 204 B.R. 586 (Bankr. M.D. Fla.)

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