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Item 3. Legal Proceedings
2025-02-26 compared with 2024-02-27 · 1 added, 1 removed, 9 unchanged (18% of the section changed)
5 unchanged sentences
The asbestos claimants seek compensatory and punitive damages, in most cases for unspecified sums.
−Removed: Since January 1, 1995, the Company has been a co-defendant in other similar cases that have been resolved as follows:
+Added: Since January 1, 1995, the Company has been a co-defendant in asbestos cases that have been resolved as follows:
57,080 of those claims were dismissed, 23 were tried to defense verdicts, 7 were tried to plaintiff verdicts (which were reversed or resolved after appeal), 1 was resolved by agreement for an immaterial amount and 1,018 were decided in favor of the Company following summary judgment motions.
2 unchanged sentences
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.