Thomas Agresti News Today

ERIE, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Likening the two sides to exhausted boxers or a quarreling couple, a bankruptcy judge approved a settlement between Honeywell and trustees overseeing a fund for paying asbestos claimants under which Honeywell will end its involvement for a lump-sum payment of $1.3 billion.

Thomas Agresti, 71, started as judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court nearly two decades ago, serving at federal courthouse on Perry Square.

Mariah Passarelli Appointed to the Western District of Pennsylvania’s Local Rules Advisory Committee.

ERIE, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – Honeywell International calls claims submitted by asbestos lawyers “copy-and-paste” allegations that they have had to spend $128 million to resolve.

ERIE, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – The names of asbestos claimants will be redacted when a trial gets started in Pennsylvania federal court that will determine if millions of dollars have been rightfully handed out.

ERIE, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – Honeywell should have to bat second in an upcoming trial as it seeks to prove those in charge of doling out asbestos money are making it rain on plaintiffs lawyers.

PITTSBURGH (Legal Newsline) – Federal bankruptcy court in Pittsburgh will be the venue where an asbestos lawyer accused of pocketing millions of dollars by filling out inaccurate forms fights a defendant tired of paying him.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A company upset about how much it is forced to fund an asbestos trust is accusing the attorney who has taken $85 million in settlements from it of filling in the blanks for his clients.