Bankruptcy Judge Denies Dismissal Bids In Asbestos Claimants’ Insurance Fraud Suit

(May 22, 2018, 2:37 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Requests by Oakfabco Inc. insurers and a claims management company to dismiss fraud allegations leveled in an adversary case by Oakfabco’s Asbestos Claimants’ Committee failed May 15 when an Illinois bankruptcy judge found that the committee’s claims are pleaded sufficiently enough to withstand a motion to dismiss (Asbestos Claimants Committee v. American Casualty Company of Reading, PA, et al., No. 18-00002, N.D. Ill. Bkcy., 2018 Bankr. LEXIS 1461)....