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Asbestos disclosure legislation fails

Legislation intended to address additional issues related Ohio’s asbestos litigation system was defeated by the Ohio House by a vote of 48-45. Senate Bill 370 House Bill 631 would have discourage “double dipping” by plaintiffs who file lawsuits in Ohio courts while making the same claims against bankruptcy trusts set up by federal bankruptcy courts.

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Does data have to be provided in a useable format, even if that format is proprietary?

In Re NVMS, LLC, Case No. 308-01901 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Tenn. Mar 21, 2008)

The debtor in this case is a medical services company who contracted with Medical Billing Partnership (“MBP”) to handle all of its billing. After filing for bankruptcy, the debtor asked MBP to provide billing data so as to determine the status of claims, but MBP refused to provide the information due to the proprietary software. MBP did provide a hard copy as well as a CD-rom with the information in an unformatted text file.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, Litigation, Bricker & Eckler LLP, Bankruptcy, Debtor, Data, Discovery
Court orders adverse inference instruction after defendants fail to preserve evidence

Centimark Corp. v. Pegnato & Pegnato Roof Mngt, Inc., Case No. 05-708 (W.D. Pa. May 6, 2008)

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Bricker & Eckler LLP, Bankruptcy, Shareholder, Breach of contract, Board of directors, Federal Reporter, Discovery, Testimony, Withholding tax, Negligence, Prejudice, Spoliation of evidence, Third Circuit