Old Asbestos Trust Claim Bars Claim Of Surviving Son, Bankruptcy Judge Says

( May 9, 2025, 3:13 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — The son of a man who died from mesothelioma after receiving a payment in 2001 from an asbestos trust in settlement of a nonmalignancy claim cannot have a malignancy claim for his father’s mesothelioma reviewed by the trust because the father’s settlement released the trust from future liability and the son sought review too late, an Ohio federal bankruptcy judge ruled....