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Johns-Manville Corporation is a profitable company that makes a variety of building and other products. It was a major producer of asbestos, which was used for insulation in buildings and for a variety of other uses. It has been medically proven that excessive exposure to asbestos causes asbestosis, a fatal lung disease. Thousands of employees of the company and consumers who were exposed to asbestos and contracted this fatal disease sued the company for damages. Eventually, the lawsuits were being filed at a rate of more than 400 per week.
In response to the claims, Johns-Manville Corporation filed for reorganization bankruptcy. It argued that if it did not, an otherwise viable company that provided thousands of jobs and served a useful purpose in this country would be destroyed and that without the declaration of bankruptcy, a few of the plaintiffs who first filed their lawsuits would win awards for hundreds of millions of dollars, leaving nothing for the remainder of the plaintiffs. Under the bankruptcy courts protection, the company was restructured to survive. As part of the release from bankruptcy, the company contributed money to a fund to pay current and future claimants. The fund was not large enough to pay all injured persons the full amounts of their claims. Is Johns-Manville liable for negligence? Is it ethical for Johns-Manville to declare bankruptcy? Has it met its duty of social responsibility in this case? In re Johns Manville Corporation, 36 B.R. 727, 1984 Bankr. Lexis 6384 (United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York)

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Corporate Ethics and Governance

            Johns-Manville Corporation is accountable for negligence because the company was concern of the profits they made from the numerous building products from asbestos and did not take proper care and attention on the health of the individuals who were working for the company. This impacted negatively on the employees of the corporation who were directly exposed to the asbestos contracting asbestosis endangering their health to a chronic lung disease.

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