Category: NARCO

NARCO: Claim Processing Updates Related to Proof of Personal Representative’s Official Capacity

eClaims has been updated to allow claims to be reviewed for exposure, medical and statute of limitations purposes prior to the submission of a Certificate of Capacity Document. To the extent a Certificate of Capacity Document is required, an offer will not be issued until an acceptable document is submitted to the Trust. Certain claims’ statuses have been updated to allow for the further processing of claims affected by this update.

NARCO: Claim Processing Updates Related to Individual Review Claims and Part 4 of the Individual Review Claim Form

eClaims has been updated to allow claims to be processed for exposure, medical and statute of limitations purposes prior to the submission of an IR Part 4 Affirmation. To the extent an IR Part 4 Affirmation is required, an offer will not be issued until an acceptable affirmation is submitted to the Trust. Certain claims’ statuses have been updated to allow for the further processing of claims affected by this update.

NARCO: Individual Review Claims and Part 4 of the Individual Review Claim Form

All NARCO Asbestos Trust Individual Review (“IR”) claims that answer “Yes” to the question “Has an asbestos-related lawsuit or claim ever been filed on behalf of the injured party?” must complete the Affirmation of Counsel: IR Claim Form Part 4: Asbestos-Related Litigation and Claims History.  This document should be uploaded as part of the claim file using document type “NAR-IR Doc Aff.”

See documentation requirements contained in Part 4 of the IR Claim Form.  If you answer “Yes”, to the question “Has an asbestos-related lawsuit or claim ever been filed on behalf of the injured party?”, you must complete Part 4 of the IR Claim Form. In addition, for every asbestos-legal action filed on behalf of the injured party, the claimant and the claimant’s law firm must attach to the Claim Form:

    1. the file-stamped copy of the complaint, as amended,
    2. any standard disclosures or interrogatories and the answers thereto required by the applicable jurisdiction, and
    3. any affidavits or deposition testimony submitted by or on behalf of the injured party

To the extent that affidavits or depositions from a person other than the injured party include information that bears on an injured party’s exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product (whether or not the affidavits or depositions mentioned NARCO) and were submitted on behalf of the injured party to a court, an insurance company, or an asbestos defendant in the tort system in an effort to support an asbestos claim, those affidavits and depositions must also be submitted. Such affidavits and depositions must be submitted regardless of whether they tend to support the claim of exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product. Affidavits and depositions that do not relate to the time period of the injured party’s exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product do not have to be submitted to the NARCO Trust, unless the affidavit or deposition: (1) names the injured party; and (2) contradicts the evidence of the injured party’s exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product. Affidavits that were submitted to other asbestos trusts only do not have to be submitted to the NARCO Trust.

All: CRMC System Enhancement – Recategorization Option Clarification

CRMC has re-defined the prior Recategoriztion Option on the Offer status page for all Trust clients. You will now have two options:

1) Recategorization – POC needs to be amended or

2) Recategorization – Ready for CRMC Review.

This was previously a two step process where you were required to log your recategorization request and then move the claim forward for processing on the claim page once any claim amendments were complete.

NARCO: IR Claim Form Asbestos-Related Litigation History Documentation Requirements

The NARCO Asbestos Trust writes to remind you of the documentation requirements contained in Part 4 of the IR Claim Form . If you answer “Yes”, to the question “Has an asbestos-related lawsuit or claim ever been filed on behalf of the injured party?”, you must complete Part 4 of the IR Claim Form. In addition, for every asbestos-legal action filed on behalf of the injured party, the claimant and the claimant’s law firm must attach to the Claim Form:

    1. the file-stamped copy of the complaint, as amended,
    2. any standard disclosures or interrogatories and the answers thereto required by the applicable jurisdiction, and
    3. any affidavits or deposition testimony submitted by or on behalf of the injured

To the extent that affidavits or depositions from a person other than the injured party include information that bears on an injured party’s exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product (whether or not the affidavits or depositions mentioned NARCO) and were submitted on behalf of the injured party to a court, an insurance company, or an asbestos defendant in the tort system in an effort to support an asbestos claim, those affidavits and depositions must also be submitted. Such affidavits and depositions must be submitted regardless of whether they tend to support the claim of exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product. Affidavits and depositions that do not relate to the time period of the injured party’s exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product do not have to be submitted to the NARCO Trust, unless the affidavit or deposition: (1) names the injured party; and (2) contradicts the evidence of the injured party’s exposure to a NARCO asbestos-containing product. Affidavits that were submitted to other asbestos trusts only do not have to be submitted to the NARCO Trust.

The above documentation requirements are mandatory. Please see the Part 4, Subpart A: Litigation History section of the Instructions for Completing the NARCO Asbestos Trust Proof of Claim Form for Unliquidated Claims to be Processed under Individual Review  for more detail regarding the documentation requirements. [Please see the NARCO Trust’s Documents Page for the current instructions.]