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Bates White, LLC offers economic consulting, litigation support, class certification, and liability estimation services for environmental and product liability matters. Our systematic approach combines scientific and legal expertise with advanced analytical tools to help clients understand and quantify potential liabilities. Our methodologies and expertise evolved from our extensive experience in asbestos, where we are a recognized industry thought leader.

Our experts help bridge the gap between executives, lawyers, insurers, bankers, and other professionals to help clients understand the financial, legal, and strategic implications of current and potential product liability. We explore alternate scenarios and connect important legal considerations with their corresponding impact. The strength and flexibility of these analyses help our clients make better decisions concerning environmental and product liability issues.

Bates White provides services ranging from preliminary assessments of potential liability, such as personal injury and property damage to formal expert reports and testimony.

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Spotlights

Testimony
Holtz-Eakin testimony summary document

Bates White’s response to the CBO letter

...all testimony
Oral testimony from Senate Judiciary Committee

Rebuttal to Navigant's critique of Bates White's study

Study on Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act

...latest testimony only

Papers
Show Me The Money

The Bankruptcy Wave of 2000—Companies Sunk by an Ocean of Recruited Asbestos Claims

...all papers
Having Your Tort And Eating It Too?

Seeking Solutions to European Asbestos Claiming: Will it be FAIR?

...latest papers only

Presentations
Impact of Underlying Litigation Developments

The impact of different approaches to settlement credits

...all presentations
Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act

...latest presentations only

Press releases
Bates White’s Charlie Mullin speaks on economic incentives to litigate asbestos claims

Charles Bates discusses the potential for trust money to affect future settlements at Mealey’s conference

...all press releases
Understanding economic incentives associated with asbestos liabilities is critical to business strategy, according to Charles H. Mullin, Bates White economist

Charles Bates and Charles Mullin discuss developments in liability forecasting and claims resolution at Mealey’s Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference

Charles H. Mullin, Bates White economist, discusses the impact of economic incentives on valuing insurance policies

Beyond the era of mass recruitment and bankruptcies: new strategies to evaluate and resolve asbestos claims, Bates White’s Charles Bates advises at Mealey’s Asbestos Conference

Bates White President and Senior Partner, Charles Bates, to speak on asbestos liability estimations at Mealey’s Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference

Dr. Charles Bates to deliver keynote address at Mealey’s International Asbestos Conference

Dr. Charles Bates speaks at Mealey’s Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference

Dr. Mullin illustratres the strategic importance of regulatory and environmental changes on forecasting asbestos liabilities at ACI Conference

Bates White analysis cited as the FAIR Act is blocked in Senate procedural vote

Bates White finds $90 billion dollar mistake in Congressional Budget Office’s cost estimate of FAIR Act

Dr. Charles Bates to speak on asbestos litigation reform legislation

Dr. Charles Mullin invited to speak on the proposed FAIR Act legislation at the American Legislative Exchange Council Summit

Dr. Charles Mullin to present on the economic impact of different allocation approaches

Bates White releases report on asbestos litigation reform legislation

Bates White strengthens leadership with appointment of four partners and two principals

Product liability expert
Dr.Charles Mullin presents at American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting ...latest press releases only