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Elizabeth Warren’s legal representation of The Travelers Insurance Company in an asbestos-related case, was to help them to deny payments to those people who won civil suits over Travelers violations of state consumer-protection statutes
the representation was for a period of three years and Warren was paid $212,000. The case resulted in a Supreme Court victory for Travelers arising out of the Johns-Manville Corporation bankruptcy case in New York.
plaintiffs began filing asbestos actions against Travelers in state courts (Direct Actions), seeking to recover from Travelers not for Manville’s wrongdoing but for Travelers’ own alleged violations of state consumer-protection statutes or of common law duties
with as much as the republican party has been lifelong in favor of tort reform in the fashion of regulated lawsuit peaks, i wouldn't go there at all...