Data Integrity

Correction Policy

AsbestosTrusts.org is committed to publishing only verifiable, source-cited data. When errors are identified — whether by users, researchers, or our own reconciliation process — we correct them promptly and document the change.

Our Correction Process

1. Submission. Anyone may submit a correction using the form below. We require a primary source citation — a filed court document, trust annual report, or official trust notice. Corrections without a verifiable source will not be applied.

2. Review. Submitted corrections are reviewed against the cited source within 7 days. If the source confirms the error, the database is updated immediately.

3. Documentation. Every correction is logged in the changes array of our trust-figures.json data file with the date, field changed, old value, new value, and source citation. This creates a permanent, machine-readable audit trail.

4. Transparency. Significant corrections (those affecting aggregate figures by more than 1%) are also noted in the News feed.

What We Correct

Payment percentages
Current and historical % figures for any trust
Net asset balances
Filed or secondary-sourced balance figures
Trust status
Active, deferral, or closed status changes
Source citations
Incorrect or missing docket numbers or report dates
Administrator info
Trust administrator name or contact changes
Aggregate figures
Changes to the documented floor or range

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Recent Corrections

2026-08-29Owens-Illinois Asbestos Personal Injury Trust

Payment percentage corrected from an erroneous structured 100% value to 65%, effective August 19, 2026. The correction follows a trust-issued notice stating that the Trustees increased the rate from 50% to 65%; claimants previously paid at a lower percentage are eligible for supplemental payments under TDP §4.3.

Source: Owens-Illinois Trust, Notice re: O-I Payment Percentage Increase (Aug. 19, 2026)

2026-08-29Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust

Net claimants’ equity updated from $539,260,000 to $570,516,505 as of June 30, 2026. The tracker’s cumulative series updated to $5,343,613,806 on 1,041,171 liquidated claims; the source label now makes clear that this is liquidated value rather than a pure cash-paid total.

Source: Manville Q2 2026 Financial Statements, S.D.N.Y. Doc 4480 (filed July 27, 2026)

2026-08-16Site-wide canonical figures

llms.txt, FAQ structured data, and homepage/server fallbacks re-synced to current data: remaining-assets floor $15,987,271,944; cumulative payouts $30,020,097,653 bottom-up; 55 tracked records / 42 with located figures; payment-percentage range 0.7%–100%; largest documented balance W.R. Grace $1,829,172,468 (filed).

Source: trust-figures.json as of 2026-08-16

2026-08-16Hercules Chemical Co. and United Gilsonite (UGL) trusts

Two trusts added from verified research-corpus records: Hercules Chemical ($4,018,899; 2.0% eff. 2022-10-17) and UGL ($16,044,821; 3.35% eff. 2024-04-11), both Verus-administered. Remaining-assets floor $15,967,208,224 → $15,987,271,944.

Source: Research corpus followup_dim08 (FY2022 figures)

2026-08-16Per-claimant statistics

New Methodology section and llms.txt note document that no public per-claimant trust-count or total-recovery statistic exists (RAND TR-872 p. xvii), with the three measured figures (Garlock 22 trusts/~$600K; Ableman 18 filed; ILR 2024 ~13 qualified) presented with provenance and vintage caveats.

Source: Sourcing audit 2026-08-16; Ableman reprint verified verbatim

2026-07-27Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Asbestos PI Trust

Payment percentage corrected from 100% to 10.6% (cut Feb 2025 from 18.1%). Net assets corrected from $200M to $308.8M (2022 annual report).

Source: Kaiser Asbestos PI Trust 2022 Annual Report

2026-07-27Quigley Company Asbestos PI Trust

Net assets corrected from $100M to $597.8M (2022 annual report). Payment percentage removed (not publicly documented).

Source: Quigley Company Asbestos PI Trust 2022 Annual Report

2026-07-27ASARCO LLC Asbestos Claims Settlement Trust

Net assets corrected from $280M to $735.9M (2022 annual report). Previous $280M figure was incorrectly transplanted from NARCO pre-buyout data.

Source: ASARCO Asbestos PI Settlement Trust 2022 Annual Report

2026-07-27Garlock Sealing Technologies Asbestos PI Trust

Payment percentage removed. Garlock uses a Matrix Settlement Value (MSV) structure — individual payment percentages are not published.

Source: Garlock Sealing Technologies Settlement Trust Distribution Procedures