Qualifications of the Fund Administrator

The Fund Administrator (Rust Consulting, Inc.) specializes in claims administration and the development and implementation of plans for the distribution of settlement funds, and has administered more than 750 cases worth billions of dollars with class sizes ranging from 80 class members to more than 100 million. Rust has handled both large distributions (including some of the largest in the claims administration industry) and smaller settlements. Over the past three years alone, Rust has distributed approximately $1.8 billion in settlement disbursements to approximately 9.6 million recipients without incident. Rust has been in existence since 1976 and has never experienced any occurrence of employee or vendor problems or claims against its Errors & Omissions insurance due to employee theft or dishonesty