Johns-Manville Claims Department to Clarence Green on the Willard Banks Settlement (1981)

A one-page form letter dated November 18, 1981, from Gayle L. Makings, supervisor of Johns-Manville's Claims Department in Denver, to Clarence Green, filled in by hand. It sent J-M check number 384850 for $30,000 as "Johns-Manville's contribution to the settlement" of the claim of Willard Banks and asked that the plaintiff's release go "to the proper J-M attorney." A handwritten postscript asks: "Please provide the exposure info + diagnosis info ASAP."

What it shows

The postscript shows the claims department paying the settlement before it had the claimant's exposure and diagnosis details on file. The letter is one of a run of J-M claims-department letters from late 1981 and early 1982 sending settlement checks, such as the Fearson settlement letter of December 3, 1981. It does not say who Clarence Green was or what disease the claim involved.