McKees Rocks-based Geo V. Hamilton Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to resolve its existing and any future litigation related to asbestos exposure, the company said Thursday. For three decades the company said it has been a defendant in thousands of personal injury lawsuits as a result of its alleged distribution and installation of asbestos-containing products from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. The company said the asbestos lawsuits are the sole reason it is seeking bankruptcy...
