Gayle L. Makings to Moore, Clifford, Wolfe, Larson & Trutner on J-M's Payments in Seven Settlements (1982)

A two-page letter of February 15, 1982, from Gayle L. Makings, supervisor of Johns-Manville's claims department, to the law firm of Moore, Clifford, Wolfe, Larson & Trutner, enclosing J-M's checks for its share of seven settlements and asking for the plaintiffs' releases and the firm's "final bill for fees, services, and expenses." The attached list gives each claimant, J-M file number, amount and check: Willie Banks ($7,500.00), George T. Bourgain ($5,000.00), Ernest Davis ($5,770.00), Carl Hagel ($29,625.00), Cecil Ross ($8,713.27), Gary Schmidt ($11,324.15) and Claude Smith ($8,400.00), together $76,332.42. A copy went to Sheila Driscoll.

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, Phillips, Jerro.