Johns-Manville Claims Department to Budd, Larner on the Davis, Tenhoeve and Lenher Settlements (1981)

A one-page form letter of November 10, 1981, from Gayle L. Makings, supervisor of Johns-Manville's Claims Department at Ken-Caryl Ranch in Denver, to David R. Gross of the Newark, New Jersey, law firm Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo & Rosenbaum. It sent three J-M checks dated November 9, 1981, as "Johns-Manville's contribution to the settlement" of the cases of Lee Davis ($750.00), Abraham Tenhoeve ($1,200.00) and David Lenher ($15,000.00), and asked the firm to forward each plaintiff's release "to the proper J-M attorney, as soon as possible."

What it shows

The letter is one of a run of J-M claims-department form letters from late 1981 and early 1982 sending settlement checks to law firms, each with the claimant's name, the check number and the amount. The three payments here ranged from $750 to $15,000. The letter does not say what disease or exposure each claim involved, or which side the firm represented, though the request to forward the plaintiffs' releases suggests it was handling the cases for J-M.