..the release would protect the company’s family owners from future civil lawsuits, even though they were not debtors in the bankruptcy proceeding.
These concessions to so-called non-debtor third parties originated in the 1990s, when Congress passed legislation shielding insurers in the bankruptcy cases of industrial companies facing asbestos liability.
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