We are looking at billions going out there. It will be certainly hundreds of millions of dollars at risk.

I have agreed to voluntarily appear at this hearing in my personal capacity because I have exhausted all internal avenues to correct contracting abuse I observed while serving this great nation as the United States Army Corps of Engineers senior procurement executive,

With all the risk out there, it will be too risky to go much bigger.

We remain confident GM will offer some assistance to Delphi, but bankruptcy risk cannot be ignored. We think GM would find it hard to justify not offering its struggling, former captive supplier, Delphi, some form of assistance.

The idea here is if you know what happens in the highest risk individuals, you will know how to use the drugs in people at lower risk. We will have 10 times the statistical power of any study ever done of these drugs.

However, because these losses are usually clustered in geographic areas, there is a risk that regional insurance companies will be hurt so bad financially that they won't be able to pay all the claims at once.