Gayle L. Makings to Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin on J-M's Payment in the Anna Phillips Settlement (1981)

A one-page form letter of December 29, 1981, from Gayle L. Makings, supervisor of Johns-Manville's claims department, to the law firm of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin. It encloses J-M check no. 384979, dated December 29, 1981, for $35,000.00, as "the corporation's contribution to the settlement" of the claim of Anna Phillips (J-M file 13-03065). Because "this concludes this case," Makings asks the firm, which had evidently been defending J-M, for its "final bill for fees, services, and expenses within 30 days."

What it shows

These letters from J-M's claims department, late 1981 to early 1982, show the company still settling individual asbestos suits one by one, months before it filed for bankruptcy in August 1982. Others in this group: Neudel, Ryden, McDermott, Jerro, seven settlements.