The shipyard, in danger of going bankrupt, was given a lifeline this week when Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition, met with Polish officials and told the press an EU bailout of the shipyard was likely.
Loews unit Lorillard Tobacco alleged double-dipping in a contentious lawsuit in Ohio's Cayahoga County, in which mesothelioma victim Harry Kananian obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from bankruptcy trusts by submitting claims with false details, such as describing himself as a shipyard worker when he merely passed through a shipyard on his way to Japan in World War II.
