Current posture
Miyoshi America has emerged from chapter 11, with its prepackaged plan effective and substantially consummated as of June 26, 2026; talc personal-injury claims are now channeled exclusively to the Miyoshi Talc Personal Injury Trust under the plan’s injunction. The effective-date notice Dkt. 174 states that all conditions to effectiveness were satisfied or waived and that claimants must look solely to the trust and execute claimant releases to receive distributions. The company entered chapter 11 on April 27 after years of mounting talc litigation strained liquidity and threatened its operating viability. Miyoshi America maintained that its talc products were not asbestos-contaminated and that no judgment had been entered against it, but its first-day declaration Dkt. 13 reported approximately 270 pending mesothelioma-related suits and an acceleration from five new cases in 2022 to 167 in 2025. The debtor had discontinued talc-based products by mid-2025 and, after negotiations with an ad hoc committee representing about 90% of pending talc claimants and a prepetition future claimants’ representative, entered into a restructuring term sheet in January 2026. It then filed a prepackaged case with more…
Updated Jul 28, 2026
Final Order Allowing Compensation of the Future Claimants' Representative and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, as Counsel to the Future Claimants' Representative, for the First Interim and Final Fee Period from April 27, 2026 Through and Including June 26, 2026 (Related Doc # [178]). Signed on 8/10/2026. (yml4)
Docket 187 · Aug 10, 2026
Certificate of No Objection Regarding Combined First Interim and Final Fee Application of the Future Claimants' Representative and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as Counsel to the Future Claimants' Representative for the First Interim and Final Fee Period from April 27, 2026 Through and Including June 26, 2026 (Filed By Future Claimants' Representative ).(Related document(s):[178] Application for Compensation) (Attachments: # (1) Proposed Order) (Hardy, Jennifer)
Docket 186 · Aug 7, 2026
Certificate of Service re: First and Final Fee Application of Alvarez & Marsal North America, LLC, Financial Advisor to the Debtor and Debtor In Possession, for Final Allowance and Payment of Fees and Expenses for the Period from April 27, 2026 Through June 12, 2026 (Docket No. 183) and First and Final Fee Application of Smith Goffman Partners, as Investment Banker for the Debtor for Final Allowance and Payment of Fees for the Fee Period from April 27, 2026, Through and Including June 12, 2026 (Docket No. 184) (Filed By Stretto ).(Related document(s):[183] Application for Compensation, [184] Application for Compensation) (Betance, Sheryl)
Docket 185 · Aug 6, 2026
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