Rand兰德：2026年破产与群体诉讼改革后哈林顿诉普渡大学案（英文版）

In this report, we examine the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. on the resolution of mass-tort claims in the United States.1 We provide evidence from a series of discussions with subject-matter experts (SMEs), including bankruptcy and mass-litigation experts from both the plaintiff and defendant sides of litigation. Initially, bankruptcy was modified with the goal of achieving global settlements in asbestos mass-tort cases, providing a stru