NU Online News Service, Aug. 4, 3:58 p.m. EDT
Because there is typically no coordination between asbestos bankruptcy trusts to determine whether a claimant's asbestos exposure evidence is consistent, claimants and lawyers are using the vacuum to game the system, according to a new report.
As the RAND Corporation report explains, "a claimant needs credible evidence that he or she worked with or around asbestos during the period of time when asbestos was in use."
However, while claimants have been found to submit conflicting exposure evidence to multiple trusts, the lack of coordination between trusts allows fraudulent claims to slip through the system, the report concludes.
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