LeGrande v. Johns-Manville Products, Settlement Hearing Transcript (1959)

Two pages of a court hearing transcript in which counsel put the settlement of Frederick Le Grande's suit on the record. John J. Monigan, Jr., for J-M, said the case would be settled by a payment to the plaintiff of $35,000, with dismissal and a general release, and that H. W. Porter Company and its insurer, Travelers Insurance Company, would not assert a lien against the $35,000. The record noted a workmen's compensation judgment for Le Grande that included "a permanent disability of seventy-five percent of total," and Le Grande told the court he understood the terms.

What it shows

The settlement closed one of the first suits by an insulation worker against Johns-Manville. Travelers was the workers' compensation carrier for Le Grande's employer; according to the index, it also retained J-M's counsel in the case.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Portion of a transcript of a hearing (two pages) in the Frederick LeGrande case, undated. Terms of the settlement are summarized by Monigan and Brach. The case is settled for $35,000, plus a waiver of the workers' compensation payments ($8,000) made by Travelers, H.W. Porter's workers' compensation insurance carrier.

About this copy

This is document 605 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002009 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002010.