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Asbestos Trust Claims: Compensation is Available Without Filing a Lawsuit

Asbestos companies and their insurers placed close to $30 Billion dollars into trust funds to pay people who were injured by asbestos. But nearly 40% of the funds have still gone unclaimed by the victims. You may be entitled to a portion of these funds.

Applying for asbestos trust fund compensation is not getting into a fight.

This money was set aside in a trust account for those who were injured.

Applying for a payment from these trusts is not affecting any company or coming out of anyone’s pocket. This is insurance money specifically to help people hurt by asbestos. 

The court ordered the funds because the asbestos industry could no longer hide its secret: asbestos is very dangerous to breathe.

T&N (Turner & Newall) Subfund of the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Trust

Company Founding	1871
Core Businesses	manufacture of asbestos containing construction materials and fabrics
Bankruptcy	District of Delaware (2001)
Year Trust was Founded	2007
Assets at Founding	$635,000,000
Assets as of 2022	$463,654,031
Payment Percentage	5.9%
Amount of Money Paid To Date	> $483 million
Number of Claims Paid	298,671

Company Summary

An infamous British company, Turner & Newall (T&N) was founded in 1871 in Rochdale, England. By 1879, it changed its name to Turner Brothers Asbestos Company as it had begun using asbestos in its cloth products around the same time. It would later change back to Turner & Newall, though not because it omitted the toxic ingredient from its products with any urgency. In fact, T&N used asbestos through at least the 1970s.

• For roughly 100 years, T&N was a major player in the asbestos industry.

• Prior to World War I, the company opened an asbestos cement manufacturing plant which made tile asbestos cement sheets.

• These sheets, Trafford tiles, were a very well-known T&N product. The company’s product range included asbestos felt, heat-resistant boards, spray asbestos products, insulation, yarn, and cement sheets.

• The company merged with Washington Chemical Company, Newall’s Insulation Company, and J.W. Roberts in 1920; it was listed on the London Stock Exchange the same year.

• It was expanding further into the United States through mergers and acquisitions, and purchased Keasbey and Mattison Company, a manufacturer of asbestos containing construction products, in 1934. 

• T&N owned and operated Keasbey and Mattison Co. until it was bought by another asbestos industry giant, CertainTeed, in 1962.

• T&N was purchased by American company Federal-Mogul in 1998. Federal-Mogul had been undergoing its own financial issues due to asbestos litigation at that time.

Workers Generally Eligible for the T&N Subfund of the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Trust:

Workers who may have been at risk of exposure to asbestos from Turner & Newall (T&N) products include:

Boilermakers	Insulators	Laborers
Steamfitters	Pipefitters	Factory workers
Iron workers	Steel workers

Insulators, construction workers, steel mill workers, boilermakers, and other plant employees were at risk of working with T&N products and being exposed to asbestos.

Additionally, workers that manufactured the asbestos containing products were in close range for exposure and were at significant risk as well.

Secondary Asbestos Exposure

Spouses and household members of workers may qualify for the T&N Subfund of the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Trust as well.

People who brought home asbestos on their work clothes may have also been exposed in their homes and vehicles. This especially includes anyone who regularly laundered asbestos-tainted work clothes. Asbestos is dusty and durable, and anyone who spent time in a garage or small laundry room breathing it in could have been at risk.

Turner & Newall (T&N) Asbestos Trust History

Because of the 1998 acquisition of T&N by Federal-Mogul, T&N was included as a sub-fund when Federal-Mogul filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 1, 2001. Another asbestos company, Flexitallic, was also included in this filing. 

The Federal Mogul Asbestos Personal Injury Trust was established on December 27, 2007 to process liability claims on behalf of the companies. It began accepting T&N Sub-fund claims in August 2010. The current payment percentage for such claims is 5.9%.

In 2007, Federal-Mogul created the T&N and FMP Subfunds of the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Trust under its Chapter 11 Joint Plan of Reorganization. The current payment percentage is 5.9%.

The Trust states that it is “organized to process, liquidate and pay all valid asbestos personal injury claims.” It also explains that the Trust is “comprised of four unique subfunds: the T&N Subfund, the FMP Subfund, the Fel-Pro Subfund, and the Vellumoid Subfund.” The purpose of the payment percentage is to ensure that the Trust has funds for present and future claimants.

The Turner & Newall (T&N) Asbestos Trust has established forms and procedures to apply and collect compensation from the trust. You can learn more on their website.

In 2022, 21,019 T&N claims were filed with the T&N Subfund of the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Trust, according to its annual financial report.

The report also details that it paid $35.24 million in claims in 2022, contributing to the $483,040,000 the T&N Subfund of the Trust has paid since it was established.

Important Facts About Asbestos Trust Compensation for People with Asbestos Illnesses

Depending on where you worked, or how you were exposed to asbestos, you may qualify to file claims with more than one asbestos trust. Different occupations worked with different types of asbestos products. The location of the work – the actual job site – also impacts which claims may be filed. Every case is unique, and thousands of clients have been able to receive compensation from multiple asbestos trusts.

Filing claims with asbestos trusts is a separate act than filing a lawsuit against certain companies. It is possible, however, to file a lawsuit and additionally file claims with asbestos trusts. This determination is made on a case-by-case basis depending on each client’s work and/or exposure history. Companies that are not bankrupt are eligible to be sued in a lawsuit, while bankrupt companies are those that were ordered to establish asbestos bankruptcy trusts.

The asbestos trusts exist for the purpose of awarding compensation to qualifying claimants. The courts designated that money be specifically set aside to provide payment to those individuals injured by asbestos. You do not have to be retired to file a claim, and the claim does not affect your current or previous employer(s), or any benefits you may already receive. If you worked with products or at a job site that was owned by a company that has established an asbestos trust, you may meet the criteria for compensation. 

Asbestos use was extremely common in the U.S. military for decades. Navy ships were built using asbestos insulation to ensure they were fireproof. The boiler rooms on the ships were full of asbestos insulation, gaskets, and valves used on the various types of equipment. Military tanks and vehicles used asbestos containing brake parts as well as gaskets and valves. These are just some examples of where asbestos would have been found.

Although asbestos trust claims are not lawsuits, they are subject to the same time limitations that lawsuits are.

These laws are called Statutes of Limitation. 

Statutes of limitation specify how much time a person has to file a lawsuit.

If a person waits too long, they lose the right to file a lawsuit. 

Every state puts limits on how long individuals have to file lawsuits on their own behalf or on behalf of a deceased loved one. These laws are called Statutes of Limitation, and if you miss one, you will not be able to file any asbestos claims.

The exact same thing applies with asbestos trusts: 

If you wait too long to file an asbestos trust claim, you’ll lose the right to do so. Statutes of Limitation can be complicated in asbestos cases because a person typically doesn’t develop an asbestos-related illness until many years after he or she was exposed.

Statutes of Limitations are often not very straightforward in asbestos cases because there are questions about when the statute should start:

• Does “the clock” start when a person is diagnosed with an asbestos-related illness, or does it start when they find out their illness could have been caused by asbestos? 

• If they worked in Texas but now live in Missouri, which statute applies? 

These are the sorts of questions that are best posed to an asbestos attorney, and we’re happy to answer them for you.

If you believe you are entitled to compensation for your asbestos-related illness, call, text or email our law firm so we can tell you how long you have to make the decision to file a trust claim or to seek asbestos compensation through an asbestos lawsuit.

It won’t cost you anything to call us, but it could cost you everything if you wait too long to file a claim.

Justinian C. Lane, Esq. – AsbestosClaims.Law

My grandfather, grandmother and father were all exposed to asbestos in their work, and all three died of respiratory-related cancers.

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But my firm has helped many other people receive compensation for health problems they developed from exposure to asbestos.

Call, text or email us for a completely free consultation with no obligation. I will listen to the details of your story, and explain your options. We only work on contingency, so we only get paid if you do.

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