A Trane Technologies Plc unit asked a bankruptcy judge to let it investigate an asbestos claimants’ committee following the disclosure that eight of 11 members died years ago.
Bankrupt Aldrich Pump LLC made its request in response to the committee’s motion to substitute estate representatives for deceased members in the company’s Chapter 11 case. The committee made the request in August, years after those individuals died, Aldrich Pump said in a Thursday filing in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
The late disclosures suggest “that the ACC has been making decisions on behalf of the ...