Bar Date Set in Clemtex for Silica Personal Injury Claims

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal bankruptcy judge has set an absolute deadline for filing silica-related personal injury claims in the Clemtex bankruptcy and has approved the inclusion of additional information claimants are now required to include with their proofs of claim. In re: Clemtex, Inc., No. 01-21794 (S.D. Texas, Bankr.).

In an order re-establishing a second bar date for timely filed tort claims, Judge Richard S. Schmidt of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas ordered personal injury silicosis tort claimants to supplement their claims before March 1, 2003. Judge Schmidt said the deadline has been …