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IN RE DOW CORNING CORPORATION
DENISE HOOD, District Judge
On July 9, 2004, the Claims Administrator appointed by the Court for the Dow Corning Settlement Option requested that the Court appoint a Quality Assurance Advisory Committee to assist her in the review of unreliable and potentially fraudulent claims or groups of claims, including any potentially fraudulent acts by attorneys and physicians.
Based on the information provided to the Court by the Claims Administrator, the Court finds it advantageous to create such an Advisory Committee. As such, Elizabeth Wendy Trachte-Huber, as Claims Administrator, is hereby appointed as the Chair of the Advisory Committee and continues to have plenary responsibility to implement procedures designed to detect and prevent payment of fraudulent claims and to assure an acceptable level of reliability and quality control of claims as required by Section 5.04 of the Settlement Facility and Fund Distribution Agreement. To assist her in discharging these tasks, the Court hereby appoints Dianna Pendleton-Dominguez to serve as the Claimants' Advisory Committee Representative and Deborah Greenspan to serve as the Debtor's Representative on the Advisory Committee. In the event that the appointed representative is unable to serve on the Advisory Committee for a particular review, the Court hereby appoints Ernest Hornsby to serve as the alternate CAC Representative and Jeanne Dodd to serve as the alternate Debtor's Representative on the Advisory Committee.
The performance by the Advisory Committee of the duties and tasks set forth in this Order shall constitute judicial actions of this Court and be protected, to the maximum extent allowed by law, by the doctrine of judicial immunity. In addition, all information provided to the Advisory Committee by the Claims Administrator shall continue to be deemed confidential and proprietary. Such information shall not, without Court approval, be disclosed by members of the Advisory Committee to any persons other than the Claims Administrator (and her counsel), the Court, the MDL-926 Court and the MDL 926 Advisory Committee.
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