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The Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey recently held that third-party successor liability tort claims against various successors in interest (collectively, the Successors) to Whittaker, Clark & Daniels, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, the Debtors) stemming from the Debtors’ production and sale of talc are property of the bankruptcy estate, and may not be asserted by third-party claimants against the Successors. This decision adopts an expansive view of the bankruptcy estate insofar as such third-party successor claims would not otherwise be assertable by the Debtors in the absence of the bankruptcy case. While the result deprives third-party litigants of the ability to pursue their own claims against successors to the Debtors’ prior business, it affords the Debtors the ability to pursue or settle successor liability claims on an aggregate basis for the benefit of all creditors.