The Claims Resolution Management Corporation will be providing Financial Reporting Services to the Shook & Fletcher Asbestos Settlement Trust effective immediately. These services include claims payment.
Announcements
Durabla: DURABLA MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND DURABLA CANADA LTD. ASBESTOS TRUST UPDATE
The Durabla Manufacturing Company and Durabla Canada Ltd. Asbestos Trust (“Trust”) has been preparing to commence accepting claims filings. The Trust faces great uncertainty in the prediction of both the number and severity of claims that will be filed and the amount of assets available to pay those claims. Because of this uncertainty, the Trust Distribution Procedures were amended, after consultation with, and with the consent of, the TAC[1] and FCR[2] , to provide for an initial three-year and six-month period during which the Trust will receive claims for filing (the “Initial Intake Period”). During the Initial Intake Period, no claims will be processed or paid.
The initial Intake Period began on September 8, 2020 and will therefore end on March 8, 2024 at the close of business. At the conclusion of the Initial Intake Period, the Trust will determine the payment percentage and consider any additional actions necessary to fulfill the purposes of the Trust. A claims processing fee may be required prior to the processing of any filed claims. Should you need to file a claim to toll the relevant Statute of Limitations you must do so by the close of business on March 8, 2024. Please note that if you wish to file those claims via Simple Batch you will need to provide a test batch to CRMC for approval which may take some time. For additional information, click here.
As noted in a prior announcement just a minimal set of data is required to file with the Trust at this time. An SOL tolling date is set once the data has been saved. You will see that date on the Claim Detail Page. Once the payment percentage has been determined the Trust will work with CRMC to develop the policies and procedures for the Trust and to modify the Eclaims system to accommodate Durabla claims. We will keep you updated throughout this process so please check the CRMC website regularly.
[1] 1 Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Trust Agreement and the Trust Distribution Procedures.,
[2] Pursuant to Sections 2.2(f)(xii), 5.7, and 6.6 of the Trust Agreement.
Manville: Asbestos Claims Research Facility
Effective July 1, 2023, the Asbestos Claims Research Facility has closed its physical location in Aurora, CO. Throughout the COVID-19 period, CRMC has investigated ways to provide services to its research facility clients without the added expense of travel costs. The facility is now positioned to remotely handle all client requests. Please continue contacting the facility by email at acrfrecords@claimsres.com
MLC: Web Services
CRMC would like to announce that we are now accepting claim filings via Web Services for the MLC Trust. We have developed Web Services for MLC to meet the needs of high volume filers looking to file MLC claims.
To utilize this service we require users to demonstrate an ability to perform some basic tasks with our development system. If you are interested please send an email to inquiry@claimsres.com for more information.
MLC: Simplebatch
Simplebatch is now available for MLC. For further information please see https://sites.google.com/
MLC: MLC Trust Claims Filing Announcement
CRMC will begin accepting claims for the Motors Liquidation Trust (MLC Trust) on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 6:00 AM ET.
If your law firm has not provided your Hybrid Filer Agreement and User Administrator (UA) letter you will not have access to file claims until you do. Those documents should be emailed to DSnow@claimsres.com. If your firm has provided documents, the designated User Administrator has been given permissions. They will set up the appropriate users at the firm. Please reach out to your firm’s UA before reaching out to us if you don’t see MLC in the drop-down.
MLC: Filing Documents
The law firm filing documents have been added to the MLC documents tab. Please execute and return to Donita Snow at dsnow@claimsres.com. Since we have been conducting payments for MLC these are the only two required documents.
MLC: Claims Processor
CRMC is pleased to announce we will be the processor for the Motors Liquidation Trust (MLC). We are working on updating eClaims to accommodate Trust claims and will keep you posted on our progress. You will need new filing documents for the Trust and we will let you know once they are available on our website.
Manville: Manville Trust Maritime Policy
The Manville Trustees have determined that 100 days of shipboard exposure will equal one year of exposure. With this change, we ask that you enter the exact time periods an individual was aboard ship as a maritime worker in eClaims. The system will calculate the # of days based on your entries. If there are deviations in dates, supporting documentation may be rejected and corrections required. For example, if someone was aboard a ship from 10/75 – 9/76 then from 1/77 – 3/77 you may not enter 10/75 – 3/77. You must enter multiple exposure periods if there are gaps in the dates.
If you have in-process claims, you may edit each exposure record and save to have eclaims recalculate the number of years of exposure. This is a new policy and affects only unsettled claims.
All: Announcement – CRMC
CRMC will be implementing 2 Factor Authentication shortly. This adds an additional layer of security to all user accounts and thereby additional protections for each user of eClaims. This new feature, requires authentication beyond your username and password. The first time you log- in after implementation, the system will step you through the authentication process. Should you have questions/issues please email inquiry@claimsres.com.