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Public figure history

Figure Provenance Timeline

Every headline revision has a dated explanation, an evidence label, and a link to the underlying record. This is a change history—not a claim that older figures remain current. Historical source dates and unresolved gaps stay visible.

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Evidence stays qualified

Every link is marked as filed, secondary-citing-filed, estimate, or an audit record. A higher number never overrides a weaker source.

Floors are not totals

A dated filed amount may be a minimum through its stated as-of year. The timeline does not silently recast historical floors as current payouts.

Corrections remain visible

Reclassifications and decreases are published alongside additions, so readers can see how source quality changed the dataset.

Revision timeline

Showing 12 documented figure revisions, newest first.

  1. Leslie Controls’ filed FY2025 financial statements completed a previously unquantified trust record.

    Asset floor
    Previously
    $16,033,489,279 across 43 records
    Published revision
    $16,097,458,607 across 44 records

    The publicly posted, court-filed FY2025 special-purpose financial statements report $63,969,328 in net claimants’ equity as of December 31, 2025. Adding that filed figure raised the exact documented floor by $63,969,328. The aggregate remains a mixed-date floor, not a current census of all U.S. asbestos trust assets.

    Source trail for Documented remaining-assets floor

    Filed source update

  2. ABB Lummus’s filed FY2025 annual report completed a previously unquantified trust record.

    Asset floor
    Previously
    $16,018,528,449 across 42 records
    Published revision
    $16,033,489,279 across 43 records

    The filed ABB Lummus FY2025 annual report reports $14,960,830 in net assets available for the payment of claims as of December 31, 2025. Adding that primary figure raised the exact documented floor by $14,960,830. The floor remains a mixed-date sum, not a current census of all U.S. asbestos trust assets.

    Source trail for Documented remaining-assets floor

    Commit 7ff0adb

  3. Manville’s Q2 filing added a current, filed net-equity figure to the asset floor.

    Asset floor
    Previously
    $15,987,271,944
    Published revision
    $16,018,528,449

    Manville’s filed June 30, 2026 statement increased its net claimants’ equity component from $539,260,000 to $570,516,505. The exact floor rose by $31,256,505; it remains a mixed-date sum rather than an actuarial estimate or a current census.

    Source trail for Documented remaining-assets floor

    Filed source update

  4. A filed O-I notice corrected the Paddock record and documented a payment-percentage increase.

    Methodology
    Previously
    50% notice; erroneous structured 100% field
    Published revision
    65%, effective August 19, 2026

    The primary notice states that the Trustees approved an increase from 50% to 65%, effective August 19, 2026, and provides for supplemental payments for claimants previously paid at a lower percentage. The tracker now reflects the notice rather than the prior inconsistent 100% structured value.

    Source trail for Owens-Illinois payment percentage

    Filed source update

  5. The site-wide display layer was synchronized with the current data record.

    Methodology
    Previously
    Stale display fallbacks and no dedicated claimant-data explanation
    Published revision
    Current figures synchronized; “Measured Void” methodology published

    Homepage fallbacks, the FAQ, crawler guidance, and the payment-percentage range were rechecked against the 55-record dataset. A new per-claimant section documents that no public dataset can calculate a typical claimant’s cross-trust filings or total recovery.

    Source trail for Public figure definitions and claimant-data caveat

    Commit 81154ec

  6. Two additional trust records expanded the documented asset floor.

    Asset floor
    Previously
    $15,967,208,224
    Published revision
    $15,987,271,944

    Hercules Chemical and United Gilsonite (UGL) added $20,063,720 in located FY2022 asset figures. The tracker expanded to 55 records, 42 with a located asset figure. The total remains a documented floor, not a current census.

    Source trail for Documented remaining-assets floor

    Commit 81154ec

  7. Babcock & Wilcox moved from a secondary floor into the filed tier.

    Cumulative payouts
    Previously
    $29,981,797,653
    Published revision
    $30,020,097,653

    A filed FY2023 Annual Report and Account established an approximately $1.9783B inception-to-date Babcock & Wilcox figure. The filed tier increased from 11 to 12 trusts while the qualified secondary tier was reconciled downward to avoid double counting.

    Source trail for Cumulative payouts since 1988

    Commit 41def537

  8. A provenance audit removed unsupported certainty rather than preserving a higher total.

    Asset floor
    Previously
    $16,746,136,347
    Published revision
    $15,967,208,224

    A merge-patch audit applied 18 data corrections, including six downgrades and ten additions. Older Owens Corning/Fibreboard, Armstrong, and USG cumulative figures were re-tiered from direct-filed to secondary-citing-filed where direct retrieval was not retained.

    Source trail for Documented remaining-assets floor

    Commit 034d529

  9. The round top-down placeholder was replaced with an itemized bottom-up build.

    Cumulative payouts
    Previously
    $24,000,000,000
    Published revision
    $29,981,797,653

    The replacement decomposed payouts into $19.81B in filed figures, $6.67B in qualified secondary-citing-filed figures, and a labeled residual allowance of approximately $3.5B. The historic $24B figure remains documented as a retired estimate, not as a current calculation.

    Source trail for Cumulative payouts since 1988

    Commit 2b2ecf1

  10. Archived court material expanded the filed pool without relying on marketing summaries.

    Cumulative payouts
    Previously
    $14,556,634,586 across 10 trusts
    Published revision
    $19,810,476,508 across 14 trusts

    A non-PACER recovery sweep located historical annual-report figures for Owens Corning/Fibreboard, Armstrong, USG, and Celotex. The records retain their historical as-of dates and are presented as historical floors where later payments are not captured.

    Source trail for Filed cumulative-payment pool

    Commit dbf367a

  11. New annual reports converted three high-priority gaps into source-linked records.

    Cumulative payouts
    Previously
    Gaps in directly sourced fields
    Published revision
    DII $2,349,041,458; W.R. Grace ~$2.69B; Motors Liquidation ~$136.2M

    The DII figure is an exact bottom-up sum of 21 filed years. W.R. Grace and Motors Liquidation use the annual reports’ own stated approximate inception-to-date language, preserving the reports’ level of precision.

    Source trail for Trust-level cumulative-payment records

    Commit 6287e72

  12. The tracker began publishing trust-level cumulative-payment fields from retained primary records.

    Cumulative payouts
    Previously
    No structured cumulative-paid fields
    Published revision
    $14,556,634,586 across 10 trusts

    The initial pool combined free-archive annual reports for Manville, Western, NARCO, Thorpe Insulation, Plant, J.T. Thorpe, and API with the first recovered annual-report records for DII, W.R. Grace, and Motors Liquidation.

    Source trail for Initial filed cumulative-payment pool

    Commit 6287e72

What changes next

Tier 2 records graduate to Tier 1 when the underlying filing is retrieved. When a source is unavailable, restricted, or only historical, that limitation remains part of the public record rather than being filled with an unqualified estimate.

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