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Aldrich Pump and Murray Boiler won exclusion of the Asbestos Claimants’ Committee’s independent “ground-up” estimate of non-mesothelioma claims prepared by Dr. Andrew Sackett. In the claims-estimation order, the court held that its 2022 Estimation Order requires non-mesothelioma claims to be calculated through a formula applied to the mesothelioma estimate—not through a separate expert-driven valuation. The court also ruled that the 2025 Case Management Order’s requirement to exchange a “gross-up” did not supersede that methodology and excluded expert testimony concerning the formula from the Phase I estimation trial.
The debtors, the Official Committee of Asbestos Personal Injury Claimants and the Future Claimants’ Representative must submit either an agreed calculation or separate formula proposals by August 21, 2026. The court will select the appropriate formula after the Phase I trial. The ruling removes a potentially expansive valuation path and concentrates the remaining dispute on the multiplier that will convert the mesothelioma estimate into the non-mesothelioma component of aggregate asbestos liability.
The court granted in part the defendants’ contested request to stay the fraudulent-transfer and substantive-consolidation adversary proceedings, Nos. 21-03029 and 22-03028. Under the written stay order, defendants first had to substantially complete post-case-management-order document production; the proceedings then became fully stayed on July 7, 2026, except for production of privilege logs. Plaintiffs cannot review produced documents or privilege logs during the stay.
The stay lifts at the first omnibus hearing held more than 30 days after the court issues its Phase I estimation ruling, and challenges to document production or privilege logs will be due 60 days after that hearing. The May 21 ruling from the bench tied the pause to the August 10–14 estimation trial, which will test asbestos liability through tort-system extrapolation. The order temporarily removes the Committee’s parallel litigation pressure on Aldrich Pump and the Trane defendants while making the estimation result the next procedural gateway for the adversary cases.
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