2012 Mass. Senate Debate: on Corporations


Elizabeth Warren: FactCheck: Insurers should pay victims, plus future immunity

Brown charged Warren for her work for Travelers Insurance in a case involving asbestos victims. Brown said Warren helped the company deny payment to asbestos poisoning victims. Brown's facts were largely true, but the impression he left was somewhat misleading. Brown said, "She helped Travelers deny benefits for asbestos poisoning, made over $250,000 in an effort to protect big corporations."

The Globe's conclusion after an extensive examination: Warren was paid $212,000 by Travelers from 2008 to 2010. Warren helped Travelers win a case that gave the company immunity from most asbestos lawsuits, and a $500 million trust fund has not been paid out because of a court order that Travelers won after Warren's work on the case ended.

But at the time, most asbestos victims were actually on Warren's side of the issue. She was fighting, she says, to unlock the $500 million trust, which Travelers said at the time it was willing to pay out in order to gain immunity and settle all the outstanding claims.

Source: Boston Globe 2012 FactCheck on Mass. Senate Debate Sep 21, 2012

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