Craig J. Litherland Email & Phone Number

Craig's practice focuses on corporate bankruptcy and complex claims resolution. He specializes in bankruptcy reorganizations that involve mass tort problems and insurance disputes.Craig represents corporate debtors, committees, future claimant representatives and plan trustees with bankruptcy plan structure and negotiation matters and insurance disputes related to bankruptcy cases that involve tort claims arising from asbestos, breast implants, other medical devices, and exposure to other carcinogenic materials. Examples include:Represented Dow Corning Corp. in its bankruptcy reorganization that resolved claims world wide related to breast implants and other medical devices. Represented Kaiser Aluminum, Shook & Fletcher, and JT Thorpe with structuring their bankruptcy plans to resolve asbestos, silica and other types of claims, including, in the cases of Shook & Fletcher and JT Thorpe, pre-packaged plans of reorganization.Represented Federal-Mogul Corp. in its bankruptcy case to address disputes over insurance coverage for asbestos claims and environmental claims.Represented the committees of asbestos claimants in the Babcock & Wilcox, Plibrico, and Burns & Roe bankruptcy cases dealing with insurance coverage for asbestos and silica claims.Participated in the representation of the future claimants’ representative as insurance counsel in the Combustion Engineering case.Represented committee of claimants in Chapter 11 bankruptcy of company that managed pediatric Medicare clinics and represented to resulting post-confirmation trust. Achieved insurer settlements that funded settlement payments to several thousand pediatric negligence and malpractice claimants.Over his career, Craig represented debtor corporations, trustees, and committees in bankruptcy cases in the convenience store, aircraft, oil and gas, farming, equipment manufacturing, real estate, telecommunications, mortgage servicing, truck and container shipping, and pipe industries.

Listed skills include Combustion, Engineering, and Insurance.