Asbestos Trust Data

The figures behind our asbestos trust pages, as files you can download and reuse: what each trust pays on a mesothelioma claim today, what 62 trusts held and paid each year from 2003 to 2025, their payment-percentage history, and every annual report we publish. Payment percentages are current as of October 2026. This is version 2026-10-31, published October 31, 2026.

Download the data

• Current mesothelioma values and payment percentages (CSV, payment-percentages.csv). One row per payment schedule (47): the mesothelioma scheduled and maximum values, the payment percentage in force, and what each of those values pays at that percentage.
• Net assets and claims paid by year (CSV, finances.csv). One row per trust and fiscal year (781), from the trusts’ annual reports: net assets at the end of the year and claims paid during it, with the report’s ACL Doc number.
• Payment-percentage history (CSV, payment-percentage-history.csv). Each payment percentage and the date it took effect (222 entries), from the annual reports and the trusts’ notices, with the document that states it.
• Annual reports (CSV, annual-reports.csv). Every trust annual report we publish (829): fiscal year, filing date, pages, ACL Doc number, and links to the PDF and its summary.
• Everything, as JSON (JSON, asbestos-trust-data.json). All four tables in one file, with the version, license and field definitions.

These links always give the latest version. To cite or reproduce an exact version, use its dated copy under versions.

Current payment percentages (October 2026)

A preview of the first file: each schedule’s payment percentage, its mesothelioma scheduled value, and when the percentage last changed. A dash means the trust doesn’t pay a single published percentage; its page explains how it pays.

What the files cover

• 47 payment schedules on 45 trust pages. The current-values file covers the trusts that pay most mesothelioma claims today. Some trusts have more than one schedule: separate sub-funds (Owens Corning and Fibreboard; Federal-Mogul’s T&N and FMP sub-funds) or separate company schedules (DII Industries’ Halliburton and Harbison-Walker), each with its own values or percentage.
• 62 trusts with yearly finances, and 63 with published annual reports. These include closed trusts and trusts too small to be on the current-values list. A trust whose reports give no comparable figures has reports but no finances rows.
• Payment-percentage history for 58 trusts. A trust’s history covers what its reports and notices state; for some sub-funds only the current percentage is recorded. Every current percentage is also the latest entry in its history.

Where the figures come from

• Mesothelioma values and payment percentages come from each trust’s distribution procedures and its payment-percentage notices. Trusts send those notices to claimants’ attorneys, often before they appear on the trust’s website, and we update the figures when a notice arrives. Each trust’s card on our settlement values page gives the date of its latest change.
• Net assets and claims paid are copied from the financial statements in each trust’s annual report, filed with its bankruptcy court. Every figure is matched to the number printed in the report, and each year’s change in net assets is checked against the next report’s opening balance. Where a report needs explaining (two rows added together, a figure restated the next year, a garbled scan), the row’s note says so. Claims paid is cash paid to claimants during the year, not the accrued claims expense some reports also show.
• Payment-percentage history comes from the annual reports and the trusts’ notices. Each entry names the document that states it, links the report when we publish it, and says whether the date was checked against the trust’s own notice. A date is only as exact as its source.
• Annual reports are the filed reports themselves, each with a permanent ACL Doc number and a plain-English summary.

A trust whose report shows a deficit instead of net assets (it books estimated future claims as a liability) has no net-assets figure for those years.

What the payment percentage means

A trust pays a share of each claim’s value, not the whole value: its payment percentage. A mesothelioma claim valued at $200,000 by a trust paying 10% is paid $20,000. The percentage is set so the fund lasts for people diagnosed decades from now, and trusts change it as their finances and claim filings change. The payment columns in the data are that multiplication for the scheduled and maximum values, not a prediction for any claim: what a claim is paid depends on the diagnosis, the exposure evidence and the review track. Most people with mesothelioma qualify for several trusts. How asbestos trust claims work.

Data dictionary

Money is US dollars as printed in the source, not adjusted for inflation: whole dollars for net assets and claims paid, cents where a trust’s schedule has them. Percentages are in percent units (7.8 means 7.8%). Dates are ISO 8601 and only as exact as their source: 2026-10-05, 2026-05 or 2026. A blank cell means the source doesn’t give that figure, or it doesn’t apply (a trust that pays set values has no percentage).

payment-percentages.csv

• schedule_id: Stable identifier of the payment schedule. One trust can have several schedules (sub-funds, or separate company schedules); joins to schedule_id in the history file.
• schedule: The schedule’s name.
• trust_slug: The trust whose reports and history cover this schedule; joins to the other files.
• trust_page: Our page for the trust.
• mesothelioma_scheduled_value: The value the trust assigns a mesothelioma claim that meets its criteria (for a schedule with several categories, the lowest category’s).
• mesothelioma_maximum_value: The most a mesothelioma claim can be valued at through individual review (for a schedule with several categories, the highest category’s).
• values_note: The values as stated, when they aren’t single amounts.
• multiple_categories: “yes” when the values span several categories (state, product or claimant groups); see the trust’s page for the breakdown.
• payment_percentage: The share of a claim’s value the trust pays now.
• payment_percentage_note: What the trust’s notice says about it: when it changed, and conditions.
• payment_at_scheduled_value: The scheduled value times the payment percentage: what a claim at the scheduled value is paid. Not a prediction for any claim.
• payment_at_maximum_value: The maximum value times the payment percentage. Not a prediction for any claim.
• as_of: The month the values and percentages are current to.

finances.csv

• trust: The trust.
• trust_slug: Joins to the other files.
• fiscal_year: The trust’s fiscal year.
• net_assets: Net assets available for claims at the end of the year, from the financial statements.
• claims_paid: Cash paid on claims during the year (not accrued claims expense).
• note: How the figure was read, when the report needs explaining.
• acl_doc: ACL Doc number of the year’s report; asbestosclaims.law/library/{number} opens it.
• report: The year’s summary on the trust’s reports page.

payment-percentage-history.csv

• trust: The trust.
• trust_slug: Joins to the other files.
• schedule_id: The schedule the rate applies to; blank when it applies to all of the trust’s schedules.
• from: The date the rate took effect.
• payment_percentage: The rate; blank for a stretch no source states.
• source_document: The first document the source names: an annual report or a trust notice.
• acl_doc: ACL Doc number of that annual report, when we publish it.
• source_link: Short link to that report.
• notice_checked: “yes” when the rate and date were checked against the trust’s own notice.
• source: Where the rate and its date are stated, in full.
• notice_acl_doc: ACL Doc number of the trust’s own notice that put the rate in force, when we publish it.
• notice_link: Short link to that notice.

annual-reports.csv

• trust: The trust.
• trust_slug: Joins to the other files.
• fiscal_year: The year the report covers.
• label: The file’s name on the reports page (some years have several parts or quarterly reports).
• filed: The date filed with the court, when known.
• pages: Pages in the PDF.
• acl_doc: ACL Doc number.
• short_link: Permanent short link.
• pdf: The PDF.
• page: The year’s summary on the trust’s reports page.

Versions

Each version is kept unchanged in a dated folder. The newest:

• 2026-10-31: Payment-percentage history linked to the trusts' own notices. First release. Files: payment-percentages.csv · finances.csv · payment-percentage-history.csv · annual-reports.csv

Using the data

The data is free to use, share and adapt under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, with credit to AsbestosClaims.Law and a link to this page. To cite it:

AsbestosClaims.Law, Asbestos Trust Data, version 2026-10-31. https://asbestosclaims.law/claims/trust-claims/data#versions

This data describes the trusts, not any person’s claim, and the percentages change.

Questions about a trust claim

Most people with mesothelioma qualify for several trusts at once. Call 833-4-ASBESTOS or request a free case review.