EX-99.2 3 ex99-2.txt Exhibit 99.2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANY TERM USED IN CAPITALIZED FORM THAT IS NOT DEFINED HEREIN BUT THAT IS DEFINED IN THE SIXTH MODIFIED JOINT PLAN OF REORGANIZATION UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE OF CONGOLEUM CORPORATION ("CONGOLEUM"), CONGOLEUM SALES, INC. ("CSI") AND CONGOLEUM FISCAL, INC. ("CFI," AND TOGETHER WITH CONGOLEUM AND CSI, THE "COMPANY"), DATED AS OF JULY 22, 2005, ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT A, SHALL HAVE THE MEANING ASCRIBED TO SUCH TERM THEREIN AND SUCH DEFINITIONS ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 1540 Broadway New York, NY 10036-4039 Richard L. Epling Robin L. Spear Kerry A. Brennan And OKIN, HOLLANDER & DELUCA, LLP Parker Plaza 400 Kelby Street Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024 Paul S. Hollander James J. DeLuca Attorneys for Debtors and Debtors-In-Possession UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY In re: Chapter 11 CONGOLEUM CORPORATION, et al., Case No. 03-51524 (KCF) Debtors. Jointly Administered ----------------------------------------- PROPOSED DISCLOSURE STATEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE SIXTH MODIFIED JOINT PLAN OF REORGANIZATION UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE OF CONGOLEUM CORPORATION, ET AL., DATED AS OF JULY 22, 2005 THIS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT SOLICITS ACCEPTANCES OF THE PLAN AND CONTAINS INFORMATION RELEVANT TO A DECISION TO ACCEPT OR REJECT THE PLAN. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE VOTING DEADLINE TO ACCEPT OR REJECT THE PLAN IS 5:00 P.M. PREVAILING EASTERN TIME ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2005, UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED BY THE BANKRUPTCY COURT (THE "VOTING DEADLINE"). IN ORDER TO BE COUNTED, BALLOTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY LOGAN & COMPANY, INC. (THE "VOTING AGENT") AT: LOGAN & COMPANY, INC., RE: CONGOLEUM CORPORATION, 546 VALLEY ROAD, UPPER MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY 07043, ON OR BEFORE THE VOTING DEADLINE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Company is providing this Disclosure Statement and the Exhibits hereto, the accompanying ballots, and the related materials delivered herewith pursuant to section 1126(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, in connection with this solicitation ("Solicitation") of votes for the Sixth Modified Joint Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of Congoleum Corporation, et al., dated as of July 22, 2005 (the "Plan"), a copy of which is annexed to this Disclosure Statement as Exhibit A. This Disclosure Statement is to be used solely in connection with an evaluation of the Plan; use of this Disclosure Statement for any other purpose is not authorized. This Disclosure Statement may not be reproduced or provided to others (other than to those advisors of any recipient of this Disclosure Statement who may review the information contained herein to assist such recipient in his, her or its evaluation of the Plan) without the prior written consent of the Company. THE PLAN PROVIDES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, FOR THE ISSUANCE OF INJUNCTIONS UNDER SECTIONS 105(a) AND 524(g) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE THAT RESULT IN THE CHANNELING OF ALL ASBESTOS RELATED LIABILITIES OF THE COMPANY INTO A TRUST AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED HEREIN. SEE SECTION 6.8(h) - "DISCHARGE INJUNCTION" AND SECTION 6.8(i) - "ASBESTOS CHANNELING INJUNCTION" FOR A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH INJUNCTIONS. The Company has operated and intends to continue operating its business in the ordinary course during the Reorganization Cases. Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, Asbestos Property Damage Claims, ABI Claims and Congoleum Majority Interests are Impaired under the Plan; the Claims of Congoleum's other Creditors and Interest Holders are not Impaired under the Plan. Because acceptance of the Plan will constitute acceptance of all the provisions thereof, holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, ABI Claims and Congoleum Majority Interests are urged to consider carefully the information regarding treatment of their Claims and Interests contained in this Disclosure Statement. Since the Plan's treatment of Asbestos Property Damage Claims is identical to the treatment set forth in the Fourth Modified Joint Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of Congoleum Corporation, et al., dated as of November 12, 2004 (the "Fourth Modified Plan"), holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims are not being resolicited. The effectiveness of the Plan is subject to several material conditions precedent. There can be no assurance that those conditions will be satisfied. The Company presently intends to seek to consummate the Plan as promptly as practicable after the Confirmation Date. There can be no assurance, however, as to when or whether the Confirmation Date and the Effective Date actually will occur. Distributions under the Plan to Creditors of the Company (other than distributions to holders of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims) will be the responsibility of the Reorganized Debtors. Pursuant to section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code, distributions under the Plan to holders of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be the responsibility of the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. i The terms of the Plan have been developed in the course of extensive pre-petition and post-petition discussions and negotiations among Congoleum, the Claimants' Representative, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee(1), ABI and the Futures Representative and, in the pre-petition period, the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee. The boards of directors of each of Congoleum, CSI and CFI have approved the Plan and strongly recommend that holders of Claims and Interests entitled to vote on the Plan for purposes of sections 1126 and 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code vote to accept it. The Claimants' Representative, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee and the Futures Representative have approved the Plan's treatment of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and strongly recommend that the holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims entitled to vote on the Plan for purposes of sections 1126 and 524(g) vote to accept the Plan. The Claimants' Representative, Joseph F. Rice, Esquire and Perry Weitz, Esquire, have participated in the negotiations and development of the Plan solely in their capacity as the representatives of certain holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and not as the representative of all holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. Holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims should consult with their personal counsel with respect to the Plan and the treatment of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims thereunder. Without approval of the arrangements set forth in the Plan, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to emerge from an alternative case under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and not be forced into liquidation under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Company believes that if it is liquidated under Chapter 7, the distributions to Creditors would be delayed and would be significantly lower than the distributions contemplated by and under the Plan. See Section 7.3(a)(1) -"Best Interests Test" below. The Claimants' Representative, Joseph F. Rice, Esquire and Perry Weitz, Esquire, are working for their respective individual clients in regard to the Plan and Disclosure Statement. Upon confirmation of the Plan, the Claimants' Representative reserves the right to seek compensation, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval, for the benefit bestowed on all Creditors. THE COMPANY BELIEVES THAT THE PLAN IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE COMPANY'S CREDITORS (INCLUDING THE HOLDERS OF ASBESTOS PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS AND ASBESTOS PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS). ACCORDINGLY, CREDITORS AND INTEREST HOLDERS ENTITLED TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE PLAN FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 1126 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE OR FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 524(g) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE ARE URGED TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE PLAN. TO BE COUNTED, YOUR BALLOT MUST BE DULY COMPLETED, EXECUTED, AND ACTUALLY RECEIVED BY THE VOTING AGENT NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M., PREVAILING EASTERN TIME, ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2005, UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED BY THE BANKRUPTCY COURT. CREDITORS AND INTEREST HOLDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ AND CONSIDER CAREFULLY THIS ENTIRE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT, INCLUDING THE PLAN ANNEXED HERETO AS EXHIBIT A, AND THE MATTERS DESCRIBED IN THIS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT UNDER ARTICLE 10, "RISKS OF THE PLAN" AND ARTICLE 11, "ALTERNATIVES TO CONFIRMATION AND CONSUMMATION OF THE PLAN," PRIOR TO CASTING THEIR VOTES. ---------- (1) The Taylor Claimants (as hereinafter defined) were engaged in discussions regarding the Fourth Modified Plan and, after such discussions were completed, joined the Asbestos Claimants' Committee. ii In making a decision, Creditors and Interest holders must rely on their own examination of the Company and the terms of the Plan, including the merits and risks involved. Creditors and Interest holders should not construe the contents of this Disclosure Statement as providing any legal, business, financial or tax advice. Each Creditor or Interest holder should consult with his, her or its own legal, business, financial and tax advisors with respect to any such matters concerning this Disclosure Statement, this Solicitation, the Plan and the transactions contemplated thereby. This Disclosure Statement has not been filed with or reviewed by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any securities regulatory authority of any state under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under any state securities or "blue sky" laws. The Plan has not been approved or disapproved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the information contained herein. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. This Disclosure Statement does not constitute an offer of securities. No Person has been authorized by the Company in connection with the Plan or this Solicitation to give any information or to make any representation other than as contained in this Disclosure Statement and the exhibits annexed hereto or incorporated by reference or referred to herein, and, if given or made, such information or representation may not be relied upon as having been authorized or made by the Company. The statements contained in this Disclosure Statement are made as of the date hereof, and the delivery of this Disclosure Statement will not, under any circumstance, create any implication that the information contained herein is correct at any time subsequent to the date hereof. Estimates, if any, in respect of a Claim set forth in this Disclosure Statement or any exhibit hereto may vary from the amount ultimately Allowed in respect of such Claim by the Bankruptcy Court. THE SUMMARIES OF THE PLAN AND OTHER DOCUMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT ARE QUALIFIED IN THEIR ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO THE PLAN ITSELF, THE EXHIBITS THERETO AND ALL DOCUMENTS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND THEREIN. Copies of any agreement described herein but not provided herewith may be obtained by contacting the Voting Agent in writing at: Logan & Company, Inc., Re: Congoleum Corporation, 546 Valley Road, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043. The information contained in this Disclosure Statement, including, but not limited to, the information regarding the history, businesses, and operations of the Company, the historical financial information of the Company and the liquidation analysis relating to the Company is included herein solely for purposes of soliciting the acceptances required to confirm the Plan under section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code and to obtain the Injunctions set forth in the Plan under section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. As to any contested matters that may arise, however, such information is not to be construed as admissions or stipulations but rather as statements made in settlement negotiations. iii The Claimants' Representative, Joseph F. Rice, Esquire, and Perry Weitz, Esquire, have participated in the negotiations and development of the Plan Documents, solely in their capacity as the representatives of certain holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and not as the representative of all holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. Holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims should consult with their personal counsel with respect to the Plan and the treatment of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims thereunder. The Asbestos Claimants' Committee did not participate in any aspects of the pre-petition negotiations, review and approval of the Plan Documents, but, to the extent such documents were modified post-petition, did participate in post-petition negotiations, review and approval of such documents. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ---- ARTICLE 1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................1 1.1. This Solicitation - Purpose of Disclosure Statement..............1 1.2. Voting Procedures................................................1 1.3. Voting Deadline..................................................2 1.4. Overview of the Reorganization...................................2 1.5. Overview of the Plan.............................................3 1.6. Summary Description of Classes and Distributions.................9 ARTICLE 2 GENERAL INFORMATION...............................................15 2.1. Business of the Company Generally...............................15 2.2. Factors Leading to the Need for Bankruptcy Relief...............18 ARTICLE 3 THE PRE-PETITION PROCESS AND PAYMENT OF ASBESTOS CLAIMS...........24 3.1. The Company's Reasons for Negotiating a Prepackaged Plan........24 3.2. The Initial Negotiation Process.................................24 3.3. Selection of the Futures Representative.........................28 3.4. Formation of the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee.....28 3.5. Due Diligence Review............................................29 3.6. Pre-Petition Plan Negotiations..................................29 3.7. Pre-Petition Solicitation.......................................29 ARTICLE 4 THE COMPANY: CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT...................30 4.1. Boards of Directors of the Company..............................30 4.2. Management of the Company.......................................32 4.3. Directors and Officers of the Reorganized Debtors...............33 4.4. Employees and Union Contracts...................................34 4.5. Debt and Equity Structure.......................................34 4.6. Other Matters...................................................37 v ARTICLE 5 EVENTS DURING THE REORGANIZATION CASES............................38 5.1. Commencement of the Reorganization Cases........................38 5.2. Administration of the Reorganization Cases......................38 5.3. Asbestos Claimants' Committee...................................40 5.4. Bankruptcy Court Appointment of Futures Representative..........40 5.5. Retention of Professionals......................................41 5.6. Motion for Relief from Stay.....................................42 5.7. Developments with Regard to Certain Pre-Petition Claims.........42 5.8. Tolling Agreements With Respect to Asbestos Personal Injury Claims-Related Avoidance Actions................................43 5.9. Settlements with Insurers and Brokers...........................43 5.10. Modifications to the Plan.......................................45 5.11. Standing of Insurers to be Heard................................48 5.12. Discovery Conducted by the Parties..............................49 5.13. Confirmation Hearing............................................49 ARTICLE 6 SUMMARY OF THE PLAN...............................................50 6.1. General.........................................................50 6.2. Classification..................................................50 6.3. Treatment of Administrative Claims and Priority Tax Claims......51 6.4. Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests....................51 6.5. Means for Execution of the Plan.................................58 6.6. Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases........................61 6.7. Compensation and Benefits Programs..............................62 6.8. Injunctions, Releases and Discharge.............................63 6.9. Matters Incident to Plan Confirmation...........................69 6.10. Retention of Jurisdiction.......................................70 6.11. Miscellaneous Provisions........................................73 ARTICLE 7 CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN..........................................75 7.1. Acceptance or Rejection of the Plan.............................75 7.2. Confirmation Hearing............................................80 7.3. Requirements for Confirmation...................................80 7.4. Effect of Confirmation..........................................88 vi ARTICLE 8 PLAN TRUST AND ASBESTOS CLAIMS RESOLUTION MATTERS.................88 8.1. Establishment and Purpose of the Plan Trust.....................88 8.2. Funding and Receipt of Plan Trust Assets........................89 8.3. Discharge of Liabilities to Holders of Asbestos Claims..........90 8.4. Excess Plan Trust Assets........................................90 8.5. Plan Trust Expenses.............................................91 8.6. Appointment of the Initial Plan Trustees........................91 8.7. The Futures Representative......................................91 8.8. Appointment of Members of the Trust Advisory Committee..........91 8.9. Assumption of Liabilities.......................................91 8.10. Indemnification of the Company and Reorganized Congoleum by the Plan Trust......................................................92 8.11. Establishment of the TDP........................................92 ARTICLE 9 ESTIMATED CLAIMS BY CLASS.........................................92 9.1. Claims other than Asbestos Claims...............................92 9.2. Asbestos Claims.................................................93 ARTICLE 10 RISKS OF THE PLAN................................................94 10.1. General.........................................................94 10.2. Confirmation Risks..............................................94 10.3. Insurance Coverage for Plan Trust Asbestos Claims...............95 10.4. Distributions under the TDP.....................................96 10.5. Risk of Post-Confirmation Default...............................96 ARTICLE 11 ALTERNATIVES TO CONFIRMATION AND CONSUMMATION OF THE PLAN........96 11.1. Liquidation under Chapter 7.....................................96 11.2. Alternative Plan of Reorganization..............................97 ARTICLE 12 CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PLAN..............97 12.1. Tax Consequences to Congoleum...................................98 12.2. Tax Consequences to the Plan Trust.............................100 12.3. Tax Consequences to Certain Impaired Holders of Claims.........100 vii ARTICLE 13 FINANCIAL INFORMATION...........................................101 13.1. General........................................................101 ARTICLE 14 SOURCES OF INFORMATION PROVIDED AND THE ACCOUNTING METHOD USED..102 14.1. Sources of Information.........................................102 14.2. Accounting Method..............................................102 viii EXHIBITS Exhibit A Sixth Modified Joint Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of Congoleum Corporation, et al., dated as of July 22, 2005 Exhibit B Liquidation Analysis Exhibit C Audited Financial Statements of Congoleum Corporation for the Year Ended December 31, 2004 Exhibit D Unaudited Financial Statements of Congoleum Corporation for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2005 Exhibit E Claimant Agreement ix ARTICLE 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1. This Solicitation - Purpose of Disclosure Statement The Company transmits this Disclosure Statement, pursuant to section 1126(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, for use in this Solicitation of votes to accept the Plan. The Company is commencing this Solicitation after extended discussions with, and the Plan is the product of pre-petition negotiations with, the Claimants' Representative, the Futures Representative and ABI. Additionally, post-petition modifications to the Plan were the product of negotiations with the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Taylor Claimants, the Claimants' Representative and the Futures Representative. This Solicitation is being conducted in order to obtain sufficient acceptances to enable the Plan to be confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. This Disclosure Statement is being transmitted in order to provide adequate information to enable holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and holders of ABI Claims and Congoleum Majority Interests, who are Impaired under the Plan, to make an informed judgment in exercising their right to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. In addition, because all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be channeled into and addressed by the Plan Trust following the Effective Date of the Plan, this Disclosure Statement is being transmitted in order to provide adequate information to enable all holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims to make an informed judgment in exercising their right to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. This Disclosure Statement is not being transmitted to holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims because the Plan's treatment of Asbestos Property Damage Claims is identical to the treatment set forth in the Fourth Modified Plan and holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims are therefore not being resolicited. The Company and ABI strongly recommend the Plan as being a fair and equitable method to address the Company's ongoing asbestos liability issues and encourage the Plan's acceptance by creditors entitled to vote. The Futures Representative, the Claimants' Representative and the Asbestos Claimants' Committee strongly recommend the Plan as being a fair and equitable method to address the Company's ongoing asbestos personal injury liability issues and encourage the Plan's acceptance by Creditors entitled to vote. 1.2. Voting Procedures The Company is soliciting acceptances of the Plan from (a) all known Asbestos Claimants or their authorized representatives, except those Asbestos Claimants whose claims have been expunged or withdrawn pursuant to a Final Order of the Bankruptcy Court, and (b) ABI as the holder of the ABI Claims and the Congoleum Majority Interests. In order to facilitate the solicitation of votes to accept or reject the Plan timely following the anticipated approval of the adequacy of the Disclosure Statement on July 14, 2005, the Company has caused the Voting Agent to commence collection of certain information pertaining to Asbestos Claimants as soon as reasonably possible. The Voting Agent has sent both a notice of collection of information and a notice of voting procedures to counsel for Asbestos Claimants requesting that such counsel provide the Voting Agent with, for each client, the name, address, social security number, class designation, amount of claim and disease level of the client, as applicable, prior to the 1 hearing on the Disclosure Statement, or as soon thereafter as possible. Counsel will also be requested to advise the Voting Agent whether the solicitation package should be sent directly to the holder or to counsel in accordance with the voting procedures. In response to requests, the Voting Agent will send solicitation packages, in such format as has been approved by the Bankruptcy Court, containing notice of the time for voting on the Plan, filing objections and the hearing on confirmation, the order approving the Disclosure Statement, the Disclosure Statement and Plan, a Summary of Changes in the Sixth Modified Plan (as hereinafter defined), appropriate ballots or master ballots, and voting instructions, among other things, to Asbestos Claimants and ABI, or their counsel. Asbestos Claimants and ABI, or their counsel, should read the solicitation package materials carefully and follow the voting instructions listed on the ballot or master ballot. Asbestos Claimants and ABI, or their counsel, should only use the appropriate ballot(s) corresponding to the class for which a vote is being cast. If at least two-thirds in amount and more than one-half in number of the claims of each Impaired Class of Claims that have voted on the Plan vote to accept the Plan, and at least seventy-five percent (75%) of Asbestos Claimants to be channeled into and addressed by the Plan Trust that have voted to accept the Plan and such votes are received by the Voting Deadline (the "Requisite Acceptances"), the Company expects to seek confirmation of the Plan promptly -- the holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims already having voted to accept the treatment of such Claims by the requisite number and amount. If the Company does not receive the Requisite Acceptances by the Voting Deadline, or unforeseen events occur, it will be forced to evaluate other available options. 1.3. Voting Deadline IN ORDER TO BE COUNTED FOR VOTING PURPOSES, BALLOTS MUST ACTUALLY BE RECEIVED BY THE VOTING AGENT BY 5:00 P.M. PREVAILING EASTERN TIME ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2005 UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED BY THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: Logan & Company, Inc. Re: Congoleum Corporation 546 Valley Road Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043 1.4. Overview of the Reorganization (a) Brief Explanation of Chapter 11 Chapter 11 is the principal business reorganization chapter of the Bankruptcy Code. Under Chapter 11, a debtor is authorized to reorganize its business for the benefit of its creditors and shareholders. In addition to permitting rehabilitation of the debtor, Chapter 11 promotes equality of treatment of creditors and equity security holders who hold substantially similar claims against or interests in the debtor and its assets. In furtherance of these two goals, upon the filing of a petition for relief under Chapter 11, section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code provides for an automatic stay of substantially all acts and proceedings against the debtor and its property, including all attempts to collect claims or enforce liens that arose prior to the commencement of the Chapter 11 case. 2 THE CONSUMMATION OF A PLAN OF REORGANIZATION IS THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF A CHAPTER 11 CASE. A PLAN OF REORGANIZATION SETS FORTH THE MEANS FOR TREATING CLAIMS AGAINST AND EQUITY INTERESTS IN A DEBTOR. CONFIRMATION OF A PLAN OF REORGANIZATION BY THE BANKRUPTCY COURT MAKES THE PLAN BINDING UPON THE DEBTOR, ANY PERSON OR ENTITY ACQUIRING PROPERTY UNDER THE PLAN, AND ANY CREDITOR OF, OR INTEREST HOLDER IN, THE DEBTOR, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH CREDITOR OR INTEREST HOLDER (I) IS IMPAIRED UNDER OR HAS ACCEPTED THE PLAN OR (II) RECEIVES OR RETAINS ANY PROPERTY UNDER THE PLAN. SUBJECT TO CERTAIN LIMITED EXCEPTIONS AND OTHER THAN AS PROVIDED IN THE PLAN ITSELF OR IN THE CONFIRMATION ORDER, THE CONFIRMATION ORDER DISCHARGES THE DEBTOR FROM ANY DEBT THAT AROSE PRIOR TO THE DATE OF CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN AND SUBSTITUTES THEREFOR THE OBLIGATIONS SPECIFIED UNDER THE CONFIRMED PLAN. 1.5. Overview of the Plan The following is a brief summary of certain information contained elsewhere in this Disclosure Statement and in the Plan. The summary is necessarily incomplete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the more detailed information appearing elsewhere in this Disclosure Statement, the exhibits hereto and the other Plan Documents. The Plan is a product of extensive efforts by Congoleum, ABI, the Claimants' Representative, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee and the Futures Representative to negotiate a plan of reorganization for the Company that is fair and equitable to all parties in interest and that provides for the issuance of injunctions under sections 105(a) and 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code that result in the channeling of asbestos related liabilities of Congoleum and the derivative asbestos related liabilities of ABI to the Plan Trust. The Plan provides for, among other things, payment in full of Allowed Administrative Claims, Allowed Priority Tax Claims, Allowed Priority Claims, Allowed General Unsecured Claims and the establishment of the Plan Trust to satisfy Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. Lender Secured Claims, Other Secured Claims and Senior Note Claims are not Impaired or affected by the Plan. The Plan shall be binding on all parties holding Claims, whether asserted or not, against Congoleum. The essential elements of the reorganization contemplated by the Plan include, among other things: (a) the creation of the Plan Trust which is intended to be a "qualified settlement fund" within the meaning of Section 1.468B - 1(a) of the Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 468B of the IRC, that will assume the liabilities of the Debtors with respect to all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and will use Plan Trust Assets and income to pay Plan Trust Asbestos Claims as provided in the Plan and the Plan Trust Documents; 3 (b) the funding of the Plan Trust with the Plan Trust Assets; (c) the classification of Claims and Interests and the treatment of such Claims and Interests under the Plan; (d) the payment of Claims in accordance with the requirements of the Bankruptcy Code; (e) the establishment and implementation of the TDP as provided in the Plan Trust Agreement for the fair and even-handed resolution of Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims; (f) the agreement, conditioned upon the occurrence of the Effective Date, by holders of Secured Asbestos Claims to forbear from exercising: (i) the right to enforce or exercise any status or right as a secured party, including any rights in the Collateral described in the Security Agreement; (ii) the right to enforce or exercise any assignment or collateral assignment of insurance or insurance proceeds; and (iii) the right to any priority in payment arising from or related to (i) or (ii) hereinabove. (g) the procedure for addressing and resolving Disputed Claims; (h) the issuance of certain injunctions, including but not limited to, the Discharge Injunction and the Asbestos Channeling Injunction; (i) amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement; (j) the governance and management of the Reorganized Debtors; and (k) the retention of jurisdiction by the Bankruptcy Court. Collateral Trust. The Collateral Trust was established in April 2003, and amended on June 6, 2003 and [as of July __, 2005], pursuant to the terms of the Asbestos Settlement Documents. All Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants and all those Asbestos Claimants who pursuant to the Claimant Agreement have settled asbestos related bodily injury claims against Congoleum and have thereby become Participating Claimants were to have been paid in accordance with the Claimant Agreement and the Collateral Trust Agreement. The Asbestos Claims of Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants and Participating Claimants (collectively, "Qualified Claimants") were granted security interests as and to the extent provided in the Asbestos Settlement Documents, which security interests are being forborne in accordance with the "Forbearance" described in the Plan. See Section 6.4 below - - "Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests" for a description of the Forbearance. The Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement) securing the Asbestos Claims of the Qualified Claimants is held by the Collateral Trust and generally includes all of Congoleum's right to receive payment from its insurers, net of, among other things, fees, expenses and disbursements incurred in connection with efforts to collect such amounts, as more fully described in the Security Agreement. The Collateral Trust by its own terms terminates upon, among other things, the transfer of the assets of the Collateral Trust to the Plan Trust on the Effective Date, as provided in the Plan. 4 Plan Trust. The Plan Trust will preserve the liquidated values of the Collateral Trust's beneficiaries, as provided in the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Plan Documents. All then asserted Plan Trust Asbestos Claims, including the Claims asserted by Qualified Claimants, will be assumed by and transferred to the Plan Trust. The Plan Trust will be funded with the Plan Trust Assets which will include, without limitation, the following assets and any income, profits and proceeds derived therefrom: o Promissory Note issued by Congoleum and payable to the Plan Trust, in the initial aggregate principal amount of $2,738,234.75 (the "Original Principal Amount") which represents 51% of the market capitalization of Congoleum as of June 6, 2003, with such amount being subject to increase in the amount, if any, by which 51% of Congoleum's market capitalization, based on the average trading prices at the close of trading for the 90 consecutive trading days beginning on the one year anniversary of the Effective Date, exceeds the Original Principal Amount; o the Asbestos Insurance Rights; o the proceeds of the Asbestos Insurance Settlement Agreements; o the proceeds of the Asbestos In-Place Insurance Coverage; o the proceeds of the Asbestos Insurance Actions; o the proceeds of the Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries; o the Asbestos Property Damage Insurance Rights; o the grant of a security interest in the Pledged Stock and the Other Collateral under the Pledge Agreement; o the ABI Contribution; o the Additional Plan Trust Contribution (if payable); o all of the assets held by the Collateral Trust as of the Effective Date; o Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action (subject to Section 12.5 of the Plan); o other Causes of Action, other than Bankruptcy Causes of Action, related to Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Plan Trust Assets including, without limitation, the right to void any Asbestos Claim of a Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant or of a Qualified Participating Claimant whether because of failure to comply with the requirements of any applicable settlement agreement (including, without limitation, the Claimant Agreement) or because such Claim was not submitted in good faith or otherwise and including the right to pursue such Causes of Action, if any, in the name of any Debtor, if necessary; and 5 o the rights granted to the Plan Trust pursuant to the Insurance Assignment Agreement. On the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to the Promissory Note which remains uncured after the applicable cure period, the Plan Trust, as holder of the Promissory Note, will generally be entitled, among other things, to accelerate the amount owing under the Promissory Note and exercise its rights under the Pledge Agreement with respect to the Pledged Stock and the Other Collateral. Treatment of Secured Asbestos Claims: The full amount of the Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants are secured; provided, however, effective as of the Effective Date, each such Qualified Pre-Petition Claimant will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof in accordance with procedures established by the Bankruptcy Court. The Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants are Secured Asbestos Claims to the extent of seventy-five percent (75%) of the liquidated settlement amounts; provided, however, effective as of the Effective Date, each such Qualified Participating Claimant will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof in accordance with procedures established by the Bankruptcy Court. If any Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant or Qualified Participating Claimant timely objects to such Forbearance, the Asbestos Claim of such objecting Claimant will be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and the validity of such Asbestos Claim will be subject to objection by the Plan Trustee based on (i) the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement; (ii) any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action, notwithstanding any limitations on such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Actions contained in Section 12.5 of the Plan; and (iii) any other Cause of Action available to the Plan Trustee under Section 12.4 of the Plan or otherwise. Upon the occurrence of such Forbearance, such Forbearance will be irrevocable. On the Effective Date all assets in the Collateral Trust will be transferred to the Plan Trust and the Plan Trust will assume the obligations of the Collateral Trust as set forth in the Plan. After the Effective Date, Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims will be paid, subject to the payment of Plan Trust Expenses and Coverage Costs, in accordance with the terms of the Plan Trust Agreement, by the Plan Trust in accordance with the provisions of the Plan Documents without priority in payment and in all respects pari passu with the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. Treatment of Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims: The Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, including Unknown Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, will be paid by the Plan Trust in accordance with the trust distribution procedures to be established as part of the Plan Trust and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims. 6 Treatment of Asbestos Property Damage Claims: Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claims will be paid from the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Sub-Account in accordance with procedures established pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement. Indemnification Under the Plan Trust: As and to the extent provided in the Plan Trust Agreement, the Reorganized Debtors will be entitled to indemnification from the Plan Trust for any expenses, costs and fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, but excluding any such expenses, costs and fees incurred prior to the Effective Date), judgments, settlements, or other liabilities arising from or incurred in connection with any Plan Trust Asbestos Claim, including, but not limited to, indemnification or contribution for Plan Trust Asbestos Claims prosecuted against the Reorganized Debtors but excluding any amounts paid prior to or on the Effective Date by the Debtors or their past or present Representatives, any amounts paid or incurred by the Reorganized Debtors or their Representatives whether before or after the Effective Date, in connection with defending, objecting to, or otherwise related to any proceedings to determine whether an Asbestos Property Damage Claim is or should be Allowed, any amounts paid or incurred by the Reorganized Debtors or their Representatives after the Effective Date in connection with liquidating ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claims and any amount paid or payable by the Reorganized Debtors as described in Section 6.8(f) of this Disclosure Statement. Notwithstanding anything in Section 3.4 of the Plan Trust Agreement to the contrary, the Plan Trust will reimburse and pay promptly the Reorganized Debtors, from the proceeds of the Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries, for Coverage Costs in excess of six million dollars ($6,000,000) to the extent that such Coverage Costs have not been reimbursed or paid to the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, from Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries received on or after the Petition Date. Further, if the proceeds of Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries received on or after the Petition Date exceed $375 million ($375,000,000), net of any payment of or reimbursement for Coverage Costs, then the Plan Trust will reimburse and pay promptly the Reorganized Debtors, from the proceeds of Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries, for (1) any Coverage Costs for which the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, have not been reimbursed and (2) the Claims Handling Fee paid under the Claimant Agreement; provided, however, if any Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries in excess of $375 million ($375,000,000) (but net of any payment of or reimbursement for Coverage Costs) are not available to pay such unreimbursed or unpaid Coverage Costs or the Claims Handling Fee due to restrictions on the use of such Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries imposed by any Asbestos Insurance Settlement Agreement, the Plan Trust will reimburse and pay promptly the Reorganized Debtors from unrestricted funds held by the Plan Trust and/or grant the Reorganized Debtors the right to offset any such unreimbursed or unpaid Coverage Costs against any future payments due by the Reorganized Debtors under the Promissory Note. Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries will not be reserved for the payment of Coverage Costs not yet incurred or not yet payable under the terms of Section 3.4(e) of the Plan Trust Agreement. Coverage Costs will be paid out of any Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries after the date when such Coverage Costs are or become payable under Section 3.4(e) of the Plan Trust Agreement. Based upon Congoleum's knowledge of its current and future operations, current and future financial projections and current Asbestos Claims, and the general asbestos liabilities of similarly situated companies, it is anticipated that the Plan Trust may not be able to pay in full all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims as they are liquidated and may not be able to pay all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims in full over time. However, it can be stated with certainty that (a) Congoleum has committed substantial resources for the payment of Plan Trust 7 Asbestos Claims, far exceeding those resources allocated to any other creditor group under the Plan; and (b) the mechanisms of the Plan Trust have been designed to provide reasonable assurance that the Plan Trust will value, and will be in a financial position to pay, similar present and future Plan Trust Asbestos Claims against the Debtors in substantially the same manner. The Plan Trust will be administered by the Plan Trustee pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement and the procedures contained therein. Injunctions: The Plan will permit the businesses of the Reorganized Debtors to operate free of asbestos-related claims and litigation, through the operation of the following injunctions pursuant to sections 105, 524(g) and 1141 of the Bankruptcy Code (the "Injunctions"): Discharge Injunction: The Reorganized Debtors will be protected from Claims and litigation by Congoleum's discharge and the Discharge Injunction, which will prohibit and enjoin the taking of any legal action against Congoleum, Reorganized Congoleum and others based upon any Claim, Asbestos Claim or Demand. For a complete description of the Discharge Injunction, see Section 11.5 of the Plan. Asbestos Channeling Injunction: The Plan provides for an injunction pursuant to section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code with respect to Plan Trust Asbestos Claims against the Debtors, Reorganized Debtors and any Protected Party. Management: On the Effective Date, the management, control and operation of the Reorganized Debtors will become the responsibility of the boards of directors of the Reorganized Debtors. The boards of directors will be comprised of the same person(s) who serve as director(s) of the Debtors immediately prior to the Confirmation Hearing. The current officers of the Company will serve as the initial officers of the Reorganized Debtors. Plan Classes: The Plan divides all Claims and Interests into 15 different Classes. Each Claim will receive the same treatment as all other Claims in the same Class under the Plan, so that the applicable terms of the Plan for each Claim depend upon its classification. Section 1.6 -- "Summary Description of Classes and Distributions" below, contains a summary description of the treatment of each Class under the Plan, including whether the Class is Impaired or Unimpaired by the Plan and whether the Claims in the Class are channeled into and addressed by the Plan Trust. If a Class is Impaired by the Plan, that Class is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. If the Claims in a Class are channeled to, addressed, processed and paid by the Plan Trust in accordance with the Plan Trust and the TDP, that Class is entitled to vote in favor of or against the Plan under section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. TDP: The TDP to be adopted by the Plan Trust pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement will establish procedures to assign a value to all Claims under the TDP (other than the Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of Qualified Claimants) (the "TDP Valued Asbestos Claims") and determine the timing and amount of payments to be made in respect of all Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. It is anticipated that the TDP will reduce expenses significantly, which expenses would otherwise reduce Plan Trust Assets available for distribution. All holders of TDP Valued Asbestos Claims will benefit from such cost savings, by maximizing the assets which are to be used for the payment of such Claims. A copy of the 8 current form of the TDP is attached as Exhibit "H" of the Plan. It is possible that the TDP may be modified prior to the Effective Date and after the Effective Date from time to time in accordance with the terms of the TDP and the Trust Agreement. 1.6. Summary Description of Classes and Distributions The distributions to each Class are summarized in the table set forth below. The table is qualified in its entirety by reference to the more detailed and complete descriptions set forth in the Plan and elsewhere in this Disclosure Statement. (a) Treatment of Administrative Claims and Priority Tax Claims Description of Claims Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan --------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Administrative Claims Unless the Debtors and the holder of an Allowed Administrative Claim agree to a different treatment, each holder of an Allowed Administrative Claim will receive Cash for the unpaid portion of such Allowed Administrative Claim on the Distribution Date. However, Administrative Claims incurred by the Debtors during the Reorganization Cases in the ordinary course of business or under a loan or advance which are not paid on or before the Effective Date will be paid by the Reorganized Debtors in accordance with the terms and conditions of the particular transactions relating to such liabilities and any agreements relating thereto. Priority Tax Claims Unless the holder of a Priority Tax Claim agrees to a different treatment, each holder of an Allowed Priority Tax Claim will either (a) be paid in Cash in full on the Distribution Date or (b) at the Reorganized Debtors' sole discretion, receive deferred Cash payments over a period not to exceed six years after the date of assessment of a value equal to such Allowed Priority Tax Claim as of the Effective Date. (b) Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Class 1 - Priority Unless the Debtors and the holder of an Allowed Claims Priority Claim agree to a different treatment, each Allowed Priority Claim will be paid in full on the Distribution Date. Class 1 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Class 2 - Secured On the Effective Date, the Plan Trust will Asbestos Claims of automatically assume all liability for Plan Trust Qualified Pre-Petition Asbestos Claims and the Reorganized Debtors will have Settlement Claimants no liability for Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. The Secured Asbestos Claims of the Qualified Pre-Petition 9 Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Settlement Claimants are secured to the full extent of their liquidated settlement amounts, as determined under the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements and certified to the Plan Trust on the Effective Date by the Collateral Trustee or its designee; provided, however, effective as of the Effective Date, each such Qualified Pre-Petition Claimant will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof in accordance with procedures established by the Bankruptcy Court. If any Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant timely objects to such Forbearance, the Secured Asbestos Claim of such objecting Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant will be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and the validity of such Secured Asbestos Claim will be subject to objection by the Plan Trustee based on (i) the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement; (ii) any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action, notwithstanding any limitations on such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Actions contained in Section 12.5 of the Plan; and (iii) any other Cause of Action available to the Plan Trustee under Section 12.4 of the Plan or otherwise. Upon the occurrence of such Forbearance, such Forbearance will be irrevocable. Each such Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant will, in respect of its Allowed Secured Asbestos Claim, be paid by the Plan Trust, in full satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of and in exchange for such Claim, in Cash in accordance with the provisions of the Plan Documents without priority of payment and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants in Class 3 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. Class 2 is Impaired and holders of Class 2 Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Class 3 - Secured On the Effective Date, the Plan Trust will Asbestos Claims of automatically assume all liability for Plan Trust Qualified Participating Asbestos Claims and the Reorganized Debtors will have Claimants no liability for Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. The Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of the Qualified Participating Claimants are Secured Asbestos Claims to the extent of seventy-five percent (75%) of the Qualified Participating Claimant's Settlement Amount; provided, however, effective as of the Effective Date, 10 Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- each such Qualified Participating Claimant will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof in accordance with procedures established by the Bankruptcy Court. If any Qualified Participating Claimant timely objects to such Forbearance, the Asbestos Claim of such objecting Qualified Participating Claimant will be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and the validity of such Asbestos Claim, including the Class 11 portion of such Asbestos Claim, will be subject to objection by the Plan Trustee based on (i) the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement; (ii) any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action, notwithstanding any limitations on such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Actions contained in Section 12.5 of the Plan; and (iii) any other Cause of Action available to the Plan Trustee under Section 12.4 of the Plan or otherwise. Upon the occurrence of such Forbearance, such Forbearance will be irrevocable. Each such Qualified Participating Claimants will, in respect of its Allowed Secured Asbestos Claim, be paid by the Plan Trust, in full satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of and in exchange for such Secured Asbestos Claim, in Cash in accordance with the provisions of the Plan Documents without priority of payment and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants in Class 2 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. Each Qualified Participating Claimant holds an Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim in Class 11 with respect to twenty-five percent (25%) of his or her Qualified Participating Claimant's Settlement Amount. Class 3 is Impaired and holders of Class 3 Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Class 4 - Lender On the Effective Date, the Existing Credit Agreement, Secured Claims as ratified, amended and approved in accordance with the Financing Order (as hereinafter defined), will be amended and restated in accordance with the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement and the holder of the Allowed Lender Secured Claim will be entitled to all the rights and benefits under the Amended Credit Agreement and related documents. The Amended Credit Agreement will be on terms and conditions mutually 11 Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- acceptable to the Debtors and Wachovia Bank, National Association, successor by merger to Congress Financial Corporation ("Wachovia"). Alternatively, if, as of the Confirmation Hearing, the Debtors and the holder of the Lender Secured Claim have not agreed upon the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement, the Lender Secured Claim will be paid in full indefeasibly on the Effective Date or as soon thereafter as practicable and Wachovia will be released from any and all liabilities and causes of action in accordance with the Final Order (1) Authorizing Debtors' Use of Cash Collateral, (2) Authorizing Debtors to Obtain Post-Petition Financing, (3) Granting Senior Liens and Priority Administrative Expense Status Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. ss.ss.105 and 364(c), (4) Modifying the Automatic Stay Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. ss.362, and (5) Authorizing Debtors to Enter into Agreements with Congress Financial Corporation [docket no. 435](the "Financing Order"). Nothing in the Plan requires that Wachovia permit the use of collateral, including cash collateral, or finance the Debtors after Confirmation other than with Wachovia's prior written consent. Class 4 is Unimpaired and the holder of the Class 4 Claim is deemed to have accepted the Plan and, accordingly, is not required to vote on the Plan. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or otherwise, the Obligations under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement (as the same has heretofore been or may hereafter be amended, modified, ratified, restated, extended, renewed or replaced) and all the rights, claims, liens and priorities and other protections provided to Wachovia will survive the Confirmation Date and continue in full force and effect in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Financing Order and the Existing Credit Agreement. Class 5 - Other Secured Each holder of an Allowed Other Secured Claim will Claims retain unaltered the legal, equitable and contractual rights (including, but not limited to, any Liens that secure such Claim) to which such Claim entitles such holder and such Allowed Other Secured Claim will be Reinstated on the Effective Date. Class 5 is Unimpaired. Class 6 - Senior Note Each holder of an Allowed Senior Note Claim will Claims retain unaltered the legal, equitable and contractual rights to which such Claim entitles such holder and such Allowed Senior Note Claim will be Reinstated on the Effective Date. Class 6 is Unimpaired. Class 7 - General General Unsecured Claims arise from or are related to Unsecured Claims the Company's present business operations and do not involve or relate to Asbestos Claims. To the extent 12 Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- such General Unsecured Claims remain unpaid prior to the Effective Date, each holder of an Allowed General Unsecured Claim will retain unaltered the legal, equitable and contractual rights to which such Claim entitles such holder and such Allowed General Unsecured Claim will be Reinstated on the Effective Date. Class 7 is Unimpaired. Class 8 - Workers' Each holder of an Allowed Workers' Compensation Claim Compensation Claims will be paid in the ordinary course pursuant to such rights that exist under any state workers' compensation system or laws applicable to such Claims. Class 8 is Unimpaired. Class 9 - ABI Claims ABI, as the holder of the ABI Claims, will receive the following treatment: (a) all ABI Claims (other than ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claims, ABI Asbestos Property Damage Indemnity Claims and Other ABI Asbestos Claims) will be Reinstated, subject to any applicable limitations on payment set forth in the Plan, the Promissory Note and the Pledge Agreement; (b) the ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claims will be channeled to and become the obligations of the Plan Trust, and be payable in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the TDP; and (c) the ABI Asbestos Property Damage Indemnity Claims and Other ABI Asbestos Claims will be deemed Disallowed and expunged. Class 9 is Impaired and the holder of the Class 9 Claims is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Class 10 - Not As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Not Previously Determined Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Unsecured Asbestos Injury Claims as well as liability for all future Personal Injury Claims Demands and Unknown Asbestos Claims will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim, Unknown Asbestos Claim and future Demand will be paid pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims in Classes 2 and 3 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. The TDP will apply to all holders of Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, Unknown Asbestos Claims and Demands, including any such holder who elects to resort to the legal system and obtains a judgment for money damages. Each holder of a Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim will be deemed to have assigned to the Plan Trust, and the Plan Trustee will be deemed such holder's sole attorney in fact, as may 13 Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- be appropriate, to prosecute, at the Plan Trustee's discretion with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, any Direct Action. The Plan Trustee may, with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, reassign such Direct Action to such holder at any time. Class 10 is Impaired and holders of Class 10 Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Class 11 - Previously As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Determined Unsecured Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Asbestos Personal Injury Claims will be assumed, automatically and Injury Claims without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim will be paid pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims in Classes 2 and 3 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10. The TDP will apply to all holders of Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. Each holder of a Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim will be deemed to have assigned to the Plan Trust, and the Plan Trustee will be deemed such holder's sole attorney in fact, as may be appropriate, to prosecute, at the Plan Trustee's discretion with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, any Direct Action. The Plan Trustee may, with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, reassign such Direct Action to such holder at any time. Class 11 is Impaired and holders of Class 11 Claims are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Class 12 - Asbestos As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Property Damage Claims Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claims will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claim will be paid solely from the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Sub-Account on account of the unpaid Allowed Amount of such Claim pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement. Class 12 is Impaired and the requisite number and amount of holders of Allowed Class 12 Claims voted to accept the treatment of their Claims under the Fourth Modified Plan and will not be resolicited with respect to the Sixth Modified Plan. 14 Description of Claims or Interests Description of Distribution or Treatment Under the Plan ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Class 13 - Congoleum On the Effective Date, ABI will retain the Congoleum Majority Interests Majority Interests. To secure the obligations of Reorganized Congoleum under the Promissory Note, the Pledged Stock and Other Collateral will be pledged by ABI to the Plan Trust pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and held by the Plan Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement until such time as the Promissory Note is paid in full, or with regard to the Other Collateral, upon the Plan Trust assigning or transferring the Promissory Note. Class 13 is Impaired and the holder of the Congoleum Majority Interests is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Class 14 - Congoleum On the Effective Date, the holders of the Congoleum Minority Interests Minority Interests will retain such Interests. Class 14 is Unimpaired. Class 15 - Subsidiary On the Effective Date, the holders of the Subsidiary Interests Interests will retain such Interests. Class 15 is Unimpaired. ARTICLE 2 GENERAL INFORMATION 2.1. Business of the Company Generally (a) Congoleum Congoleum was incorporated in Delaware in 1986, but traces its history in the flooring business back to Nairn Linoleum Co. which began in 1886. Congoleum is the result of a 1986 merger between Resilco, Inc., a then subsidiary of a company previously known as Congoleum Industries, Inc., which subsidiary owned the resilient flooring operations that were later owned by Congoleum, and Resilient Acquisition Inc., a company formed for the purposes of merging with Resilco, Inc. The surviving corporation to that merger changed its name to Congoleum Corporation. In 1993, the business and assets of Congoleum and those of the Amtico Tile Division of ABI, which consisted of ABI's then existing U.S. flooring division (the "Tile Division"), were combined (the "Acquisition"). The Acquisition was effected through the organization of a new corporation, Congoleum Holdings Incorporated ("Congoleum Holdings"), to which Hillside Industries Incorporated ("Hillside Industries") contributed all of the outstanding capital stock of Resilient Holdings Incorporated ("Resilient"), the owner of all of the outstanding capital stock of Congoleum, and to which ABI contributed the assets and certain liabilities of the Tile Division. Upon consummation of the Acquisition, Congoleum Holdings owned all of the outstanding capital stock of Resilient, which, in turn, owned all of the outstanding capital stock of Congoleum, and Congoleum owned the Tile Division. The assets and liabilities comprising the Tile Division which were acquired by Congoleum in the Acquisition are held directly by Congoleum. 15 Pursuant to the Acquisition, subject to certain exceptions, Congoleum is obligated to indemnify ABI for, among other things, all liabilities relating to ABI's former Tile Division, including, among others, liabilities related to product liability asbestos claims, to the extent that insurance proceeds related thereto are not actually recovered by ABI or ABI is not reimbursed or indemnified for those liabilities by any other source or entity (the "ABI Indemnification"). As of December 31, 2003, pursuant to the ABI Indemnification, Congoleum has paid ABI an aggregate amount of approximately $2.3 million for indemnified costs, expenses and liabilities incurred by ABI for asbestos-related claims pertaining to ABI's former Tile Division. In 1995, Congoleum completed a public offering (the "Offering") of 4,650,000 shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Class A Common Stock"). The Class A Common Stock is entitled to one vote per share. Upon completion of the Offering, Congoleum implemented a Plan of Repurchase pursuant to which its two-tiered holding company ownership structure was eliminated through the merger of Congoleum Holdings, Resilient and Congoleum, pursuant to which Congoleum was the surviving corporation. Congoleum used most of the proceeds from the Offering to repurchase most of the shares of its Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Class B Common Stock"), owned by Hillside (the "Repurchase"), which was, indirectly, the majority stockholder of Congoleum prior to the Repurchase. Congoleum's Class B Common Stock is generally entitled to two votes per share. As a result of the Repurchase, ABI acquired voting control of Congoleum. Since the Repurchase, ABI's equity ownership interest in Congoleum has further increased as a result of Congoleum's repurchases of its common stock combined with open market purchases by ABI of Congoleum's common stock. As of April 30, 2005, ABI's ownership of 151,100 shares of Class A Common Stock and 4,395,605 shares of Class B common stock represented 69.5% of the voting control of Congoleum. Congoleum produces both sheet and tile floor covering products with a wide variety of product features, designs and colors. Congoleum also produces through-chip inlaid products for both residential and commercial markets. In addition, Congoleum purchases sundries and accessory products for resale. Congoleum's products serve both the residential and commercial hard-surface flooring markets, and are used in remodeling, manufactured housing, new construction and commercial applications. Congoleum owns four manufacturing facilities located in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and leases corporate and marketing offices in Mercerville, New Jersey, as well as storage space in Trenton, New Jersey, which are described as follows: Location Owned/Leased Usage Square Feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finksburg, MD Owned Felt 107,000 Marcus Hook, PA Owned Sheet Flooring 1,000,000 Trenton, NJ Owned Sheet Flooring 1,050,000 Trenton, NJ Owned Tile Flooring 282,000 Trenton, NJ Leased Warehousing 111,314 Mercerville, NJ Leased Corporate Offices 55,902 The Finksburg facility consists primarily of a 16-foot wide felt production line. 16 The Marcus Hook facility is capable of manufacturing rotogravure printed sheet flooring in widths of up to 16 feet. Major production lines at this facility include a 12-foot wide oven, two 16-foot wide ovens, a 12-foot wide printing press and a 16-foot wide printing press. The Trenton sheet facility is capable of manufacturing rotogravure printed and through-chip inlaid sheet products in widths up to 6 feet. Major production lines, all six-foot wide, include an oven, a rotary laminating line and a press. The examination, packing and warehousing of all sheet products (except products for the manufactured housing segment) occur at the Trenton plant distribution center. The Trenton tile facility consists of three major production lines, a four-foot wide commercial tile line, a two-foot wide residential tile line and a one-foot wide residential tile line. Productive capacity and extent of utilization of Congoleum's facilities are dependent on a number of factors, including the size, construction, and quantity of product being manufactured, some of which also dictate which production line(s) must be utilized to make a given product. Congoleum's major production lines were operated an average of 81% of the hours available on a five-day, three-shift basis in 2004, with the corresponding figure for individual production lines ranging from 53% to 99%. Although many of Congoleum's manufacturing facilities have been substantially depreciated, Congoleum has generally maintained and improved the productive capacity of these facilities over time through a program of regular capital expenditures. Congoleum considers its manufacturing facilities to be adequate for its present and anticipated near-term production needs. Congoleum is one of many defendants in a large number of actions filed by individuals alleging injuries resulting from exposure to asbestos and asbestos-containing products, including resilient sheet vinyl and tile manufactured by Congoleum and tile manufactured by the Tile Division or, in the worker's compensation cases, from exposure to asbestos in the course of employment with Congoleum. Congoleum discontinued the manufacture of asbestos-containing sheet products in 1983 and asbestos-containing tile products in 1974. Congoleum purchased liability insurance policies that it believes obligates the insurers to provide coverage for Asbestos Claims. A description of Congoleum's historical asbestos liabilities is set forth in Section 2.2(a) -- "Factors Leading to the Need for Bankruptcy Relief - Asbestos Claims Against Congoleum" below. A description of certain Congoleum insurance assets relating to Asbestos Claims is located in Section 2.2(b) -- "Congoleum's Insurance Coverage for Asbestos-Related Personal Injury Claims" below. A more detailed description of Congoleum's business and other material assets is located in Article 4 -- "The Company: Corporate Structure and Management" below. (b) CFI CFI was incorporated on January 24, 2003 under the laws of the State of New York as a wholly owned subsidiary of Congoleum Financial Corporation, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Congoleum. On January 27, 2003, Congoleum Financial Corporation was merged with and into CFI, with CFI surviving the merger, and the separate legal existence of Congoleum Financial Corporation ceased. CFI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Congoleum and a limited guarantor of Congoleum's obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement. 17 Congoleum Financial Corporation was incorporated on November 12, 1998 under the laws of the State of Delaware. Congoleum Financial Corporation's business included providing debt financing to Congoleum. As of the date of this Disclosure Statement, Congoleum did not have any debt outstanding with CFI. (c) CSI CSI was incorporated on January 24, 2003 under the laws of the State of New York as a wholly owned subsidiary of Congoleum. CSI's business includes providing sales and promotion services for the purpose of promoting Congoleum's business. CSI is a limited guarantor of Congoleum's obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement. 2.2. Factors Leading to the Need for Bankruptcy Relief (a) Asbestos Claims Against Congoleum Congoleum, along with many other manufacturers, including several of its competitor sheet vinyl and tile manufacturers, became the subject of numerous claims by individuals asserting bodily injury as a result of alleged exposure to asbestos-containing products. As a result of the explosion of asbestos claims and litigation in recent years, and the increasing costs of settlement and defense, certain sheet vinyl and tile manufacturers and many others in related industries, including flooring manufacturers similar to Congoleum, have filed Chapter 11 proceedings. As of December 31, 2000, there were approximately 12,000 known claimants with Asbestos Personal Injury Claims pending against Congoleum. As of December 31, 2001, there were approximately 25,000 known claimants with Asbestos Personal Injury Claims pending against Congoleum. As of December 31, 2002, there were approximately 56,000 known claimants with Asbestos Personal Injury Claims pending against Congoleum. As of June 30, 2003, there were approximately 91,000 known claimants with Asbestos Personal Injury Claims pending against Congoleum. Thus, the number of known claimants with Asbestos Personal Injury Claims pending against Congoleum doubled from 2001 to 2002, and nearly doubled in the first six months of 2003. In the spring of 2001, two damages verdicts in the amount of approximately $18.2 million and $15.8 million, respectively, were rendered against Congoleum in asbestos personal injury claims brought by Kenneth Cook and Richard Arsenault in New York State Supreme Court, New York County. Although under the reverse bifurcation procedure then in effect in New York, liability would still have to be established, the liability trial was to be held immediately. Congoleum retained a leading jury consulting firm to conduct a mock trial to assess its likelihood of prevailing at trial and was advised that it was likely to lose. During the period following August 2002, Congoleum faced a situation in which its primary insurers claimed that their policies were exhausted (as supported by applicable New Jersey law at the time) while at the same time its excess carriers claimed that the primary layers were not exhausted and that therefore excess coverage was not available. This left Congoleum with no carriers ready and willing to pay claims or defense costs. Thus, Congoleum 18 was placed in an untenable position as a result of the foregoing confluence of events. The insurers' refusal to defend and indemnify Congoleum caused it to begin the process of seeking a global resolution in the form of a prepackaged bankruptcy. During the fourth quarter of 2002, Congoleum engaged an outside actuary to conduct an updated analysis of Congoleum's asbestos-related liabilities. Developments during the latter part of 2002 included a significant increase in claims filed against Congoleum and higher settlement requirements, and the exhaustion of primary insurance coverage combined with a dispute of coverage by certain of its excess insurance carriers. These developments in turn led to Congoleum's plan to file a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The study concluded that the minimum gross liability for the 56,567 known claimants at December 31, 2002, using historical settlement payments, was $310 million. This amount did not include defense costs, liability for the 30,000 additional claimants purportedly existing at December 31, 2002, or for future claims, which the study concluded could not be reasonably determined in light of the available data and uncertainty arising from an announced bankruptcy filing. Congoleum's estimated minimum gross liability is substantially in excess of both the total assets of Congoleum (without giving effect to rights under insurance policies) as well as Congoleum's previous estimates made in prior periods of the maximum liability for both known and unasserted claims. Congoleum believes that (without giving effect to rights under insurance policies) it does not have the necessary financial resources to litigate and/or fund judgments and/or settlements of the asbestos claims in the ordinary course of business. Congoleum believes that its going concern or liquidation value is substantially less than the minimum gross liability for the known asbestos claims against it. Between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2003, Congoleum settled with in excess of 79,000 Asbestos Claimants. (b) Congoleum's Insurance Coverage for Asbestos-Related Personal Injury Claims To date, Congoleum has discovered excess insurance policies (in whole or in part), or evidence of excess policies, that were issued to Congoleum beginning in December 1953, and which Congoleum believes cover claims by third parties injured by its activities, including but not limited to claims alleging injury from asbestos. Such policies obligate the insurers to pay amounts that Congoleum becomes liable to pay in connection with, among other things, claims alleging bodily injury. Generally, such policies also obligate the insurers to pay defense costs in connection with claims against Congoleum, either in addition to the applicable limits of liability of the policies, as in the case of primary and some excess policies, or subject to such limits of liability. The discussion in this Section 2.2(b) applies only to policy periods through 1985. The liability policies purchased by Congoleum generally provide two types of limits of liability. The first type, the "per occurrence" limit, generally limits the amount the insurer will pay in connection with a single "occurrence" to which the limit applies, as the term "occurrence" is defined in the policy. The second type, the "aggregate" limit, generally limits the total amount the insurer will pay in connection with all occurrences covered by the policy for bodily injury to which the aggregate limit applies. 19 In the context of asbestos personal injury, the policies purchased by Congoleum generally provide coverage for two fundamental types of claims. The first type consists of claims in which the alleged exposure to asbestos is within the "products hazard" or the "completed operation's hazard" as those terms are defined in the policies. Such claims, referred to herein as "products" claims, include claims alleging exposure to asbestos-containing products manufactured or sold by Congoleum. In many states, including New Jersey, asbestos claims within the "products hazard" are considered a single occurrence subject to annual limits in each insurance policy. In addition, coverage for products claims may be subject to a specified annual aggregate limit of liability under some of the policies purchased by Congoleum. The second type of claim involves exposure not within the scope of the policies' products hazard or completed operations hazard. Such claims, referred to herein as "non-products" claims, include claims involving alleged exposure to asbestos-containing materials, whether or not manufactured by Congoleum while such materials were present at premises or facilities owned or operated by Congoleum or at locations where asbestos material may have been disposed of by Congoleum. Although non-products claims have been asserted against Congoleum, the vast majority of asbestos-related claims that have been brought to date are products claims. During the period in which Congoleum produced asbestos-containing products, Congoleum purchased primary and excess insurance policies providing in excess of $1 billion of limits of liability for general and product liability claims. Through August 2002, substantially all asbestos-related claims and defense costs were paid through primary insurance coverage. In February 2002 and then in August 2002, Congoleum received notice from its two lead primary insurance carriers that its primary insurance coverage was exhausted. The exhaustion of limits by one of the primary insurance companies was based on its contention that limits in successive policies were not cumulative for asbestos claims with the "products hazard" and that Congoleum was limited to only one per occurrence limit for multiple years of coverage for such claims. Certain excess insurance carriers claimed that the non-cumulation provisions of the primary policies were not binding on them and that there remained an additional $13 million in indemnity coverage plus related defense costs before their policies were implicated. On April 10, 2003, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in another case involving the same non-cumulation provisions as in the Congoleum primary policies (the "Spaulding Case") that the non-cumulation provisions are invalid under New Jersey law and that the primary policies provide coverage for the full amount of their annual limits for all successive policies. Although Congoleum was not a party to this case, the decision in the Spaulding Case was likely binding on Congoleum and its primary insurance company. Thus, based on the Spaulding Case decision, the primary insurance company became obligated to provide the additional $13 million of coverage previously disputed by the excess carriers. After the Spaulding decision was decided, Congoleum entered into settlement negotiations and reached a settlement with the primary insurance company that had previously contended that limits in successive policies were not cumulative for asbestos claims within the "products hazard." Prior to the decision in Spaulding, Congoleum had entered into settlement agreements with asbestos claimants exceeding the $13 million amount of previously disputed coverage. The excess carriers objected to the reasonableness of these settlements notwithstanding the decision in the Spaulding case and the settlement with the primary insurance company, Congoleum 20 also believes that the excess carriers will continue to dispute the reasonableness of the settlements, contend that their policies still are not implicated and dispute their coverage for that and other various reasons in ongoing coverage litigation. The excess carriers have also raised various objections to Congoleum's reorganization strategy and negotiations. (c) Coverage Litigation There is insurance coverage litigation currently pending between Congoleum and its excess insurance carriers, and the guaranty funds and associations for the State of New Jersey. The litigation was initiated on September 15, 2001, by one of Congoleum's excess insurers. Congoleum has reached settlements with its insurance brokers in this litigation. Congoleum has also reached settlements with certain of its insurance carriers, which are described in Section 5.9 - "Settlements with Insurers and Brokers" below. On February 26, 2003, one of Congoleum's excess insurers filed an action for preliminary and permanent injunctive relief seeking, among other things, an order enjoining Congoleum from entering into the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement and compelling Congoleum to allow insurers to participate in the settlement discussions. The insurers also sought permission to file amended counterclaims against Congoleum objecting to the terms of the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement. On March 26, 2003, the court denied the insurers' request for injunctive relief. Since April 2003, the parties have conducted extensive discovery. Congoleum has produced numerous employees and other representatives for multiple days of depositions and has produced hundreds of thousands of pages of documents relating to the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement and the proposed prepackaged bankruptcy proceeding. Discovery into the facts and circumstances leading to the promulgation of the Plan currently is ongoing. Congoleum has also served and received discovery requests and has conducted depositions of numerous insurance company employees and representatives. On or about July 11, 2003, certain upper layer excess insurers (i.e., those in the second excess layer and above) filed a motion for summary judgment seeking to dismiss Congoleum's breach of contract claims as to such upper layer excess carriers. On August 26, 2003, the court granted the defendants' motion. This ruling did not impact the declaratory judgment count of the coverage litigation. The court also held that the ruling is not a determination as to whether Congoleum had a right to enter into the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement and may not be used by the insurers to determine Congoleum's ability to enforce insurance coverage for the Claims addressed in the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement. The court also held that the question of whether there was a sound and reasonable basis for entering into the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement was not and could not be decided by this motion. On September 10, 2003, one of Congoleum's excess insurers filed a motion for summary judgment seeking a ruling that the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement is unreasonable and was entered into in bad faith as a matter of law. Most of the excess insurers joined in the application. On November 7, 2003, the court denied the insurers' motion for summary judgment in its entirety. 21 In December 2003, several of Congoleum's excess insurers filed motions for summary judgment seeking a ruling that Congoleum had violated the duty to cooperate, consent to settle and anti-assignment provisions of their insurance policies and, as a result, the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement was not enforceable against it. Most of the excess insurers joined in the application. On April 19, 2004, the court denied the insurers' motions for summary judgment in their entirety. On February 25, 2004, Congoleum filed an application for leave to file a Third Amended Complaint against the excess insurers to allege claims for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and for bad faith. On March 5, 2004, the court granted Congoleum's application for leave to file a Third Amended Complaint in its entirety. On or about March 12, 2004, Congoleum filed the Third Amended Complaint and served each excess insurer with a copy. On March 22, 2004, Congoleum filed an application for a jury trial during the Phase I trial. On April 19, 2004, the court denied Congoleum's application. Congoleum filed an application for leave to appeal, but the Appellate Division refused to consider the appeal of the jury trial ruling on an interlocutory basis. On August 12, 2004, the court entered a new case management order with respect to the pending insurance coverage litigation, Case Management Order No. IV ("CMO IV"), that divides the trial into three phases. CMO IV sets forth the deadlines for completing fact and expert discovery. CMO IV also established deadlines for dispositive and pre-trial motion practice. A new judge was assigned to the case effective February 23, 2005 and the schedule was modified as a result. On February 22, 2005, the court ruled on a series of summary judgment motions filed by various insurers. The court denied a motion for summary judgment filed by certain insurers, holding that there were disputed issues of fact regarding whether the Claimant Agreement and other settlement agreements between Congoleum and whether the claimants had released Congoleum and the insurers from any liability for the asbestos bodily injury claims of the claimants who signed the Claimant Agreement and the other settlement agreements. The court also denied another motion for summary judgment filed by various insurers who argued that they did not have to cover the liability arising from the Claimant Agreement because they had not consented to it. The court granted summary judgment regarding Congoleum's bad faith claims against excess insurers (other than first-layer excess insurers), holding the refusal of these excess insurers to cover the Claimant Agreement was at least fairly debatable and therefore not in bad faith. On March 18, 2005, the Debtors filed a motion in the Bankruptcy Court asking the Bankruptcy Court to vacate its prior order lifting the automatic stay in bankruptcy to permit the Coverage Action to proceed. The Debtors requested that the Coverage Action proceedings be stayed until the Debtors had completed their plan confirmation process in the Bankruptcy Court. A hearing on the Debtors' motion was held on April 12, 2005 and the motion was denied. 22 The Phase 1 trial in the insurance coverage litigation is scheduled to begin on July 19, 2005. The court has defined the scope of the Phase 1 trial as follows: All issues and claims relating to whether the insurers are obligated to provide coverage under the policies at issue in the litigation for the global claimant's agreement entered into by Congoleum, including but not limited to all issues and claims relating to both Congoleum's decision and conduct in entering into the Claimant Agreement and filing a pre-packaged bankruptcy and the insurance company defendants' decisions and conduct in opposing the Claimant Agreement and Congoleum's pre-packaged bankruptcy, the reasonableness and good faith of the Claimant Agreement, whether the Claimant Agreement breached any insurance policies and, if so, whether the insurance companies suffered any prejudice, and whether the insurance companies' opposition to the Claimant Agreement and bankruptcy and various other conduct by the insurers has breached their duties of good faith and fair dealing such that they are precluded from asserting that Congoleum's decision to enter into the Claimant Agreement constitutes any breach(es) on the part of Congoleum. Congoleum believes, however, that even if the insurers were to succeed in the first phase of the Coverage Action, such result would not deprive individual claimants of the right to seek payment from the insurers who issued the affected insurance policies or from negotiating settlements with some or all of the insurers, nor would such result preclude Congoleum from amending the Claimant Agreement and seeking recovery under the Claimant Agreement as amended; moreover, Congoleum does not believe that it would be deprived of coverage-in-place insurance for future obligations or demands for payment upon the insurers under the applicable insurance policies. However, there can be no assurances of the outcome of these matters. The Phase 2 trial will address all remaining coverage issues, including but not limited to trigger and allocation. The Phase 3 trial will address claims and damages for bad faith and punitive damages, if appropriate. Discovery is permitted on all issues, except for punitive damages. Pre-trial motions and trial dates for the Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials and discovery for the Phase 3 trial will be addressed by the court after the Phase 1 trial decision. (d) Congoleum's Insurance Coverage for Asbestos Property Damage Claims The insurance policies purchased by Congoleum also provide coverage for claims asserting property damage. In the context of asbestos property damage, some, but not all, of Congoleum's primary policies provided separate property damage limits, and some policies included property damage limits within a combined single, overall policy aggregate or within the policy's products aggregate limit. Thus, the property damage limits have been exhausted for some years and not other years under Congoleum's primary policies. Congoleum has identified certain primary insurance policies, set forth on Exhibit "A" to the Plan, that provide separate property damage coverage limits. As a result of the Liberty Settlement, discussed in Section 5.9 below, approximately $1.25 million is earmarked for the payment of Asbestos Property Damage Claims. 23 ARTICLE 3 THE PRE-PETITION PROCESS AND PAYMENT OF ASBESTOS CLAIMS 3.1. The Company's Reasons for Negotiating a Prepackaged Plan As both the volume of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and the associated costs of defense and settlements increased, and as its principal insurers refused to make further payments or became insolvent, Congoleum became concerned about its ability to continue in business and to pay fair compensation to claimants allegedly injured by its historical operations. Beginning in October 2002, Congoleum consulted with its counsel regarding ways to compensate legitimate Asbestos Claimants while preserving Congoleum's business, including utilization of the special provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, including section 524(g), to accomplish this purpose. In an effort to further reduce the cost and disruption of a bankruptcy filing, and to optimize the potential for preserving value, Congoleum simultaneously negotiated the Claimant Agreement, the Security Agreement and the Collateral Trust Agreement as described in Section 3.2 below. Congoleum also structured the plan of reorganization as a prepackaged plan, in which acceptances were solicited prior to filing the Reorganization Cases, in an effort to reduce the duration and expense of the contemplated bankruptcy proceedings and the risk that the contemplated bankruptcy proceedings would have a material adverse impact upon Congoleum's business. Votes were solicited for the prepackaged plan and the votes received were overwhelmingly in favor of the prepackaged plan. While the Debtors could have proceeded to seek confirmation of the prepackaged plan, after filing these Chapter 11 cases, the Debtors engaged in negotiations with various constituents in an effort to develop consensual modifications. The Debtors were successful in negotiating such consensual modifications and they are incorporated into the Plan attached hereto as Exhibit A. 3.2. The Initial Negotiation Process (a) General Background Congoleum and the Claimants' Representative commenced preliminary negotiations in December 2002. The negotiations focused first on the desirability of a possible plan of reorganization and the settlements required to position Congoleum for filing such a plan, and then on the terms of such a plan. In connection with its attempts to negotiate a global resolution of its asbestos liabilities in the form of a prepackaged plan of reorganization, Congoleum of necessity dealt with the counsel who represent the largest number of identified Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, the Claimants' Representative. The Claimants' Representative and Congoleum each evaluated the Asbestos Personal Injury Claims presently asserted against Congoleum. The parties examined historical data for Congoleum as well as other asbestos defendants. The Kenesis Group, LLP was retained by Congoleum to assist it in its assessment of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims values. An appropriate dollar figure for the settlement amounts was reached by the parties during the course of negotiations. 24 As a result of these negotiations, Congoleum entered into the following agreements: (i) the Claimant Agreement with the Claimants' Representative pursuant to which Congoleum offered to settle existing Asbestos Claims and provide collateral for payment of a substantial portion of such claims (see Section 3.2(c) -- "Claimant Agreement," below, for a description of the Claimant Agreement); (ii) the Collateral Trust Agreement with the Collateral Trustee which provides, among other things and subject to certain conditions precedent, for the receipt of certain payments from insurers and payment thereof to certain Asbestos Claimants (see Section 3.2(e) -- "The Collateral Trust Agreement," below, for a description of the Collateral Trust Agreement); and (iii) the Security Agreement with the Collateral Trustee pursuant to which Congoleum granted a security interest in Congoleum's rights under and proceeds of insurance coverage for asbestos-related liabilities to the Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the holders of Secured Asbestos Claims (see Section 3.2(f) -- "The Security Agreement," below, for a description of the Security Agreement). Copies of any of the Asbestos Settlement Documents may be obtained by contacting the Voting Agent. The settlement amounts established under the Asbestos Settlement Documents represent heavily negotiated figures that take into account factors, including the cost of inflation, the increases in settlement costs and jury awards and the costs of litigating unsubstantiated claims. (b) Negotiations with Asbestos Insurance Companies Before ultimately deciding to pursue a prepackaged plan of reorganization, beginning in July 2001 and continuing through December 2002, Congoleum attempted to resolve its disputes with its numerous asbestos insurance companies (collectively, the "Insurance Companies"). Those efforts were unsuccessful and Congoleum found itself facing potential serious cash flow problems due to the drain on resources from asbestos-related defense costs and concerns this uncertainty created on the part of suppliers and lenders. Considering its options, Congoleum decided to utilize the trust mechanisms provided by section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code to efficiently, promptly, and fairly resolve its asbestos liability claims. In a January 13, 2003 press release, Congoleum publicly stated its desire to resolve its asbestos liabilities by possibly filing a Chapter 11 prepackaged plan. Congoleum's insurance counsel, Dughi, Hewit & Palatucci ("DH&P"), circulated the press release to all the Insurance Companies. 25 The Insurance Companies expressed opposition to Congoleum's proposed plan to resolve its liability by filing a Chapter 11 prepackaged plan and requested meetings and on-going communications with Congoleum concerning, among other things, the negotiation and drafting of the Asbestos Settlement Documents. Congoleum met with representatives from several Insurance Companies four times during February and March of 2003 and also forwarded to them drafts of the Claimant Agreement (a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit "E"). The Insurance Companies requested some changes to the Asbestos Settlement Documents, and also continued to object to Congoleum entering into or finalizing the Claimant Agreement and other Asbestos Settlement Documents. Some of the changes to the Asbestos Settlement Documents requested by the Insurance Companies were implemented, but no settlement was reached between Congoleum and the Insurance Companies, and the Insurance Companies continued to object to terms contained in the Asbestos Settlement Documents. On April 18, 2003, Congoleum forwarded executed copies of the Claimant Agreement to, among other parties, the Insurance Companies. (c) Claimant Agreement Under the terms of the Claimant Agreement, the amounts due to Qualified Participating Claimants are fixed by the compensable disease matrix attached to the Claimant Agreement. Each Qualified Participating Claimant provided evidence of his or her bodily injury, sickness or disease and a verification that such Qualified Participating Claimant was exposed to asbestos or an asbestos-containing product for which Congoleum may have liability. In addition, each Qualified Participating Claimant submitted a release in a form acceptable to Congoleum. The Claims Reviewer reviewed such documentation submitted by each potential Qualified Participating Claimant in order to ensure its completeness and adequacy. If the documentation was incomplete or inadequate, the Claims Reviewer informed Claimants' Counsel and such potential Qualified Participating Claimant had the opportunity to remedy the deficiency within the timeframe provided in the Claimant Agreement. If the documentation was complete and adequate, the Claims Reviewer approved the Claim and forwarded such Claim for payment in accordance with the Claimant Agreement. The payment of the settlement amounts to the Qualified Participating Claimants is partially secured by a security interest granted to the Collateral Trustee in the Asbestos Insurance Collateral. See Section 3.2(f) -- "The Security Agreement" for a general description of the lien granted in the Asbestos Insurance Rights. The security interest secures an amount equal to seventy-five percent of the aggregate of all of the amounts for which Qualified Participating Claims are settled under the Claimant Agreement; provided, however, the Plan provides that each Qualified Participating Claimant will forbear from exercising or enforcing such security interest. See Section 6.4 - - "Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests" for a description of the Forbearance. Pursuant to the Claimant Agreement, Congoleum advanced $1,000,000 to each Claimants' Representative to pay out-of-pocket expenses, reasonable professionals' fees and expenses, and other costs such counsel may have incurred or may incur in connection with (i) the negotiation and implementation of the Asbestos Settlement Documents; (ii) the negotiation of a prepackaged chapter 11 plan of reorganization for Congoleum; (iii) due diligence investigations related to a possible chapter 11 plan of reorganization; and (iv) defending the Claimant Agreement. 26 (d) Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements The Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements address the Claims of Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants with whom Congoleum entered into various settlement agreements. Pursuant to the Claimant Agreement, a UCC-1 financing statement was filed by the Collateral Trustee to perfect the lien securing the liabilities set forth in the Security Agreement. The Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants are secured to the full extent of their liquidated settlement amounts, as determined under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement; provided, however, the Plan provides that each Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant will forbear from exercising or enforcing such security interest. See Section 6.4 - - "Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests" for a description of the Forbearance. On the Effective Date, the Plan Trust will automatically assume all liability for Secured Asbestos Claims and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability for Secured Asbestos Claims. On the Effective Date, all of the Collateral Trust's right, title and interest in and to any assets or properties then held by the Collateral Trust will automatically be transferred and assigned to, and vest in, the Plan Trust free and clear of all Liens, Claims and encumbrances, and all rights with respect to such assets and properties will be enforceable by the Plan Trust. (e) The Collateral Trust Agreement Congoleum established the Collateral Trust to hold the security interest in the Asbestos Insurance Collateral (as defined therein) and to act as a vehicle to transfer the proceeds thereof to Secured Asbestos Claimants with respect to their Secured Asbestos Claims. Under the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement, the Collateral Trust is the direct recipient of the proceeds of the Asbestos Insurance Collateral. The Collateral Trust will transfer all of its assets and liabilities to the Plan Trust upon or as soon as practicable after the Plan Trust's establishment and the Plan Trust provides for the transfer of such assets and liabilities. The Collateral Trustee is Arthur J. Pergament, who will serve until the earlier of his resignation or removal or the termination of the Collateral Trust. The Collateral Trustee at all times acts as a fiduciary of the Collateral Trust and in accordance with the Collateral Trust Agreement. The Collateral Trustee earns $195 per hour for his time devoted to business of the Collateral Trust. The hourly rate may be adjusted over time as appropriate with the consent of the Claimants' Representative. In addition, the Collateral Trustee is reimbursed for any reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses from the assets of the Collateral Trust. Wilmington Trust Company serves as the Delaware trustee for the Collateral Trust. The Delaware trustee is a trustee for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. ss.ss. 3801 et seq. The Delaware trustee receives compensation from the Collateral Trust for its service as Delaware trustee at the rates detailed in a mutually acceptable fee agreement. The Collateral Trust will reimburse the Delaware trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Delaware trustee in connection with the performance of its duties, at the rates detailed in the fee agreement. 27 (f) The Security Agreement Congoleum granted to the Collateral Trustee a security interest in the Asbestos Insurance Collateral (as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement), which consists generally of (i) all of Congoleum's claims, causes of action and rights to receive payment from its insurers for its benefit to satisfy claims against it, net of certain fees and expenses, and (ii) the proceeds of any of the above, net of certain fees and expenses. The Asbestos Insurance Collateral secures all of the Secured Asbestos Claims. Upon the creation of the Plan Trust, the Collateral Trustee will release the security interest in the Asbestos Insurance Collateral granted by the Security Agreement. 3.3. Selection of the Futures Representative Congoleum considered candidates to serve as the Futures Representative to represent the interests of Asbestos Personal Injury Claimants who are presently unknown. After reviewing the qualifications and potential conflicts of certain candidates, and following careful deliberation, Congoleum asked R. Scott Williams to serve as the Futures Representative. Mr. Williams is a member of the Litigation Practice Group of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, L.L.C. Mr. Williams holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A. 1985) and the University of Alabama School of Law (J.D. 1988). Prior to joining Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, L.L.C., Mr. Williams served United States Senator Howell Heflin as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and as judicial clerk to the Honorable Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Mr. Williams was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1988 and his practice specializes in bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Mr. Williams is a frequent lecturer and author on bankruptcy and commercial litigation related topics and he currently serves as a contributing editor to Collier on Bankruptcy (15th Ed. Revised). Mr. Williams is a past president of the Birmingham Bar Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section and is a former member of the Birmingham Bar Executive Committee. In addition, Mr. Williams is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and has served in a variety of leadership roles for that organization. Mr. Williams served as the futures representative in the prepackaged Chapter 11 case of In re Shook & Fletcher Insulation Co., U.S.B.C. N.D. Al., Case No.: 02-02771-BGC-11. Mr. Williams has never represented a current plaintiff, defendant, or insurer in connection with asbestos litigation against Congoleum, and, other than being selected as the Futures Representative, has never had a relationship with, or connection to, Congoleum or any of its Affiliates. Mr. Williams' appointment has been approved by the Bankruptcy Court. See Section 5.4 - "Bankruptcy Court Appointment of Futures Representative". 3.4. Formation of the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee During the course of the negotiations of the prepackaged plan documents, various representatives of the holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims engaged in discussions with the Claimants' Representative concerning the possible pre-packaged bankruptcy filing by the Company. Such discussions culminated in the formation of the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee 28 which consisted of the following members: Perry Weitz, Esquire, Joe Rice, Esquire, Steve Kazan, Esquire, Russell Budd, Esquire, Bryan Blevins, Esquire, John Cooney, Esquire and Matt Bergmann, Esquire. The members of the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee represented a majority of the holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and a diverse mix of the types of such Asbestos Claimants. 3.5. Due Diligence Review The Claimants' Representative engaged L. Tersigni Consulting, P.C. ("LTC") to conduct a due diligence investigation of (a) the business affairs of Congoleum, (b) the equity value of Congoleum, and (c) the feasibility of a plan of reorganization. The Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee was also apprised of the results of the due diligence investigation undertaken by LTC and considered such results in connection with its review and approval of the prepackaged plan of reorganization. LTC's due diligence review consisted of a thorough investigation of the past and present business activities of Congoleum and the relationship between Congoleum and its Affiliates. Congoleum cooperated with LTC in its investigation and produced numerous documents in response to the requests of LTC. The Futures Representative and his professionals (including CIBC World Markets Corp.) conducted their own due diligence review, including consulting with advisors to the Company and the Claimants' Representative. 3.6. Pre-Petition Plan Negotiations In December 2002, Congoleum, the Claimants' Representative and ABI began preliminary negotiations regarding the terms of a prepackaged plan of reorganization. Congoleum, through its counsel, prepared a proposed draft plan of reorganization reflecting the tentative agreements reached among the parties. Counsel to Congoleum, the Claimants' Representative, the Futures Representative (subsequent to his appointment by the Debtors in June 2003), ABI and counsel to ABI reviewed the draft plan and related documents and engaged in extensive negotiations regarding many of the operative provisions of those documents. The goal of all parties to these negotiations, in addition to achieving the maximum benefit for their respective interests or clients, was to insure that the resulting plan documents were fair and equitable and satisfied the requirements of the Bankruptcy Code in general and section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code in particular. Prior to the final conclusion of such negotiations, the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee participated in the final negotiation, review and approval of the plan documents. 3.7. Pre-Petition Solicitation On October 27, 2003, the Debtors commenced a pre-petition solicitation with respect to a plan of reorganization (the "Pre-Petition Solicitation"). The solicitation materials consisted of a disclosure statement with a plan of reorganization attached as an exhibit thereto, a copy of the Pre-petition Solicitation and Voting Procedures, an appropriate ballot or ballots with instructions (depending upon which Class or Classes in which holders of Claims were entitled to vote), a self-addressed return envelope, letters in support of such plan from the Company and the Futures Representative, and in certain instances, letters from counsel to holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims to their respective clients (collectively, the "Pre-Petition Solicitation Package"). 29 Votes were solicited from holders of Claims in Classes 2, 3, 4 and 9 and former Class 10 (now Classes 10 and 11) and holders of Interests in former Class 12 (now Class 13). Class 4, which is now an Unimpaired Class, was designated as being an Impaired Class at the time of the Pre-Petition Solicitation. There were no known holders of Claims in former Class 11 (now Class 12) at the time of the Pre-Petition Solicitation and thus, votes could not be solicited from holders of Claims in that Class. Holders of Priority Tax Claims and holders of Claims in Classes 1, 5, 6 and 7 and holders of Interests in former Classes 13 and 14 (now Classes 14 and 15) were sent Pre-Petition Solicitation Packages that included notices of non-voting status in lieu of ballots. Holders of Claims in Class 8 - Workers' Compensation Claims and holders of Claims in Class 7 who were employees of the Debtors were not sent Pre-Petition Solicitation Packages. Instead, such claimants were notified of such plan and their treatment under such plan separately by the Debtors. The initial deadline for voting for the Pre-Petition Solicitation, December 19, 2003, was extended by the Debtors to December 24, 2003. Based on the votes received for the Pre-Petition Solicitation, as well as other indications of support, such plan was overwhelmingly supported by a majority of the Debtors' creditors, including the holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. While the Debtors could have proceeded to seek confirmation of the prepackaged plan, after filing these Chapter 11 cases, the Debtors engaged in negotiations with various constituents in an effort to develop consensual modifications. The Debtors were successful in negotiating such consensual modifications and they are incorporated into the Plan attached hereto as Exhibit A. ARTICLE 4 THE COMPANY: CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT 4.1. Boards of Directors of the Company (a) Congoleum The following table sets forth the name and principal occupation of each of the directors of Congoleum. Name Business Experience and Other Directorships ---- ------------------------------------------- Mark N. Kaplan Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, attorneys, since 1999. Director of American Biltrite Inc., DRS Technologies, Inc., REFAC Technology Development Corporation, Volt Information Sciences, Inc. and Autobytel Inc. Director of Congoleum since 1995. Richard G. Marcus Vice Chairman of Congoleum (since 1994) and a Director (since 1993). Director (since 1982), President (since 1983) and Chief Operating Officer (since 1992) of American Biltrite Inc. American Biltrite is the control shareholder of Congoleum and owns and operates other businesses selling tape and film, flooring and rubber products, and costume jewelry. 30 Name Business Experience and Other Directorships ---- ------------------------------------------- Mark S. Newman Chairman of the Board since 1995, President and Chief Executive Officer since 1994 of DRS Technologies, Inc., a high technology defense electronics systems company. Director of Opticare Health Systems, Inc., SSG Precision Optronics, Governor Aerospace Industries Association, New Jersey Technology Council and REFAC Technology Development Corporation. Past Chairman AEA. Director of Congoleum since 2000. Roger S. Marcus Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Congoleum (since 1993) and Chairman (since 1994). Mr. Marcus is also a Director (since 1981), Chairman of the Board (since 1992) and Chief Executive Officer (since 1983) of American Biltrite Inc. From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Marcus served as Vice Chairman of the Board of American Biltrite Inc. John N. Irwin III Managing Director of Hillside Capital Incorporated, an investment firm, since 1979. Director of Congoleum since 1986. Cyril C. Baldwin, Jr. Former Chairman Emeritus and Director of Cambrex Corporation, a life sciences company. Director of Congoleum since 1995. William M. Marcus Director, Executive Vice President and Treasurer of American Biltrite Inc. since 1966. Director of Congoleum since 1993. C. Barnwell Straut Managing Director of Hillside Capital Incorporated, an investment firm, since 1976. Director of Congoleum since 1986. Roger S. Marcus and Richard G. Marcus are brothers, and William M. Marcus is their cousin. Roger S. Marcus and Richard G. Marcus were executive officers of Congoleum on December 31, 2003, when it filed its voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. (b) CFI The directors of CFI are Roger S. Marcus, Richard G. Marcus and Howard N. Feist III. See Section 4.1(a) - "Congoleum" above for information regarding Mssrs. Roger and Richard Marcus and Section 4.2(a) - "Congoleum" below for information regarding Mr. Feist. (c) CSI The directors of CSI are Roger S. Marcus, Richard G. Marcus and Howard N. Feist III. See Section 4.1(a) - "Congoleum" above for information regarding Mssrs. Roger and Richard Marcus and Section 4.2(a) - "Congoleum" below for information regarding Mr. Feist. 31 4.2. Management of the Company (a) Congoleum The following is a list of the executive officers of Congoleum and a brief description of their positions and certain biographical data. Name Position with Congoleum ---- ----------------------- Roger S. Marcus Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President Richard G. Marcus Vice Chairman Howard N. Feist III Chief Financial Officer and Secretary Dennis P. Jarosz Senior Vice President - Sales & Marketing Sidharth Nayar Senior Vice President - Finance John L. Russ III Senior Vice President - Operations Thomas A. Sciortino Senior Vice President - Administration Roger S. Marcus Roger S. Marcus has been a Director and President and Chief Executive Officer of Congoleum since 1993, and Chairman since 1994. Mr. Marcus is also a Director (since 1981), Chairman of the Board (since 1992) and Chief Executive Officer (since 1983) of ABI. From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Marcus served as Vice Chairman of ABI. Richard G. Marcus Richard G. Marcus has been Vice Chairman of Congoleum since 1994 and a Director since 1993. Mr. Marcus is also a Director (since 1982) and President (since 1983) and Chief Operating Officer (since 1992) of ABI. Howard N. Feist III Howard N. Feist III has been Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Congoleum since 1988. Mr. Feist is also Vice President - Finance and Chief Financial Officer of ABI (since 2000). 32 Dennis P. Jarosz Dennis P. Jarosz has been Senior Vice President - Sales & Marketing since 2002. Previously, he was Senior Vice President - Marketing since 1995. Prior thereto, he had served as Vice President - Marketing since 1993 and Vice President - Sales & Marketing of the Tile Division of ABI (since 1986). Sidharth Nayar Sidharth Nayar has been Senior Vice President - Finance of Congoleum since 1999. Prior thereto, he had served as Vice President - Controller since 1994 and prior to that he was Controller since 1990. John L. Russ III John L. Russ III has been Senior Vice President - Operations since 2002. Prior thereto, he served as Executive Vice President for Borden Chemicals, Inc. (Forest Products Division), a supplier of resins and adhesives, since 1997. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President of Borden Chemicals and Plastics, a specialty resins manufacturer, since 1987. Thomas A. Sciortino Thomas A. Sciortino has been Senior Vice President - Administration of Congoleum since 1993. Prior thereto, he was Vice President - Finance of the Tile Division of ABI (since 1982). (b) CFI Roger S. Marcus is the President and Howard N. Feist III is the Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary of CFI. (c) CSI Roger S. Marcus is the President and Howard N. Feist III is the Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary of CSI. 4.3. Directors and Officers of the Reorganized Debtors (a) Boards of Directors The respective boards of directors of the Debtors immediately prior to the Confirmation Date will serve as the initial respective boards of directors of the Reorganized Debtors on and after the Effective Date. Each of the members of such initial boards of directors will serve until the first annual meeting of shareholders of the Reorganized Debtors and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified, or his or her earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and by-laws. 33 (b) Officers The respective officers of the Debtors immediately prior to the Confirmation Date will serve as the respective officers of the Reorganized Debtors on and after the Effective Date. Such officers will serve in accordance with any applicable employment agreement, by-laws and nonbankruptcy law. 4.4. Employees and Union Contracts As of March 31, 2005, Congoleum employed a total of approximately 870 personnel. Congoleum has entered into collective bargaining agreements with hourly employees at three of its plants and with the drivers of the trucks that provide interplant transportation. These agreements cover approximately 506 of Congoleum's employees. The Marcus Hook plant has a five-year collective bargaining agreement which expires in November 2008. The Trenton sheet plant has a five-year collective bargaining agreement which expires in February 2006. The Trenton tile plant has a five-year collective bargaining agreement which expires in May 2008. The Finksburg plant has no union affiliation. In the past five years, there have been no significant strikes by employees at Congoleum and Congoleum believes that its employee relations are satisfactory. 4.5. Debt and Equity Structure (a) Summary of Pre-Petition Date Indebtedness (1) The Credit Facility On December 10, 2001, Congoleum entered into a revolving credit agreement (the "Credit Facility") with Wachovia which provides for revolving loans and a letter of credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $30,000,000. Interest payable on revolving loans is equal to .25% above a designated prime rate or 2.75% over an adjusted Eurodollar rate, as applicable, depending on meeting the required covenants under the Credit Facility. The Credit Facility contains certain covenants which include a covenant requiring the maintenance of adjusted minimum tangible net worth and EBITDA (i.e., earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) if borrowing availability falls below a certain level. It also includes restrictions on the incurrence of additional debt and limitations on capital expenditures. The covenants and conditions under the Credit Facility must be met in order for Congoleum to borrow under the Credit Facility. The repayment obligations of Congoleum are secured under the Credit Facility by a grant of a perfected security interest in certain of Congoleum's inventory and accounts receivable. In addition, Congoleum Financial Corporation and Congoleum Intellectual Properties, Inc., wholly owned subsidiaries of Congoleum as of the date of the Credit Facility, each granted a limited guarantee in favor of Wachovia with regard to the obligations of Congoleum under the Credit Facility. Pursuant to the terms of the Credit Facility, amounts received by Congoleum with regard to its accounts receivable and inventory which are subject to the security interest granted by Congoleum to Wachovia are to be deposited by Congoleum, and Congoleum is obligated to direct its customers to remit payments, into a lockbox or blocked account, which funds are controlled and used by Wachovia to offset outstanding amounts borrowed by Congoleum under the Credit Facility. 34 In September 2002, Congoleum and Wachovia amended the Credit Facility to revise certain financial and other covenants. In February 2003, Congoleum and Wachovia further amended the Credit Facility to revise certain financial and other covenants on terms negotiated to reflect the transactions contemplated by Congoleum's intended global settlement of its asbestos claims liability. Pursuant to this amendment, CSI and CFI granted a limited guarantee in favor of Wachovia with regard to the obligations of Congoleum under the Credit Facility, which limited guarantee is substantially similar to the limited guarantee that was previously granted by Congoleum Financial Corporation and Congoleum Intellectual Properties, Inc., which entities are no longer in existence. As of the Petition Date, the principal amount of all pre-petition obligations owed by the Debtors to Wachovia, both absolute and contingent, pursuant to the Credit Facility existing as of December 31, 2003 consisted of the principal amount of not less than $14,325,937, plus all interest accrued and accruing thereon and fees, costs, expenses and other charges accrued, accruing or chargeable with respect thereto. Wachovia has provided debtor-in-possession financing during the pendency of the Reorganization Cases. See Section 5.2(b) -- "DIP Financing". (2) The Senior Notes On August 3, 1998, Congoleum issued $100 million in aggregate principal amount of 8?% Senior Notes Due 2008 (the "Senior Notes") priced at 99.505 to yield 8.70%. Interest is payable on the Senior Notes semiannually on February 1 and August 1. The Senior Notes mature on August 1, 2008. The Senior Notes are redeemable at the option of Congoleum, in whole or in part, at any time on or after August 1, 2003 at predetermined redemption prices (ranging from 104% to 100%), plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption. The Indenture under which the notes were issued includes certain restrictions on additional indebtedness and uses of cash, including dividend payments. In March 2003, Congoleum and the trustee under the Indenture governing the Senior Notes (the "Indenture Trustee") amended the Indenture to expressly provide Congoleum, under the terms of that Indenture, with greater flexibility to pursue possible resolutions of its current and future asbestos claims liability, including negotiating a global settlement with current asbestos plaintiffs and the Futures Representative, and soliciting acceptances of and filing a prepackaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Prior to the amendment, holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes outstanding as of the record date for determining the holders entitled to vote on the proposed amendment had consented to the amendment. In August 2003, Congoleum and the Indenture Trustee amended the Indenture to expressly provide Congoleum, under the terms of the Indenture, with greater flexibility to pursue approval of its pre-packaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, including expressly permitting Congoleum to issue the Promissory Note to the Plan Trust, to reflect certain possible contributions expected to be made by ABI to the Plan Trust and expressly permitting Congoleum to issue promissory notes to ABI as repayment for certain amounts which may be paid by ABI to the Plan Trust. Prior to the amendment, holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes as of the record date for determining the holders entitled to vote on the proposed amendment had consented to the amendment. 35 (b) Description of Capital Stock (1) Congoleum Congoleum has 31,000,000 shares of capital stock authorized, of which 20,000,000 shares are designated as Class A Common Stock, 10,000,000 shares are designated as Class B Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock (the "Preferred Stock"). As of April 30, 2005, 3,651,190 shares of Class A Common Stock, 4,608,945 shares of Class B Common Stock and no shares of Preferred Stock were issued and outstanding. As of that date, ABI held 151,100 shares of Class A Common Stock and 4,395,605 shares of Class B Common Stock. Upon the filing of amended certificates of incorporation in connection with the Effective Date, the Debtors will be prohibited from issuing non-voting capital stock in accordance with section 1123(a)(5) of the Bankruptcy Code. (A) Class A Common Stock The Class A Common Stock is entitled to one vote per share and, generally, votes together with the Class B Common Stock as a single class. The Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock are on parity on a per share basis with respect to dividend and liquidation rights. (B) Class B Common Stock Generally, the Class B Common Stock is entitled to two votes per share and votes together with the Class A Common Stock as a single class. The Class B Common Stock is only entitled to one vote per share with regard to certain extraordinary transactions. The Class B Common Stock and Class A Common Stock are on parity on a per share basis with respect to dividend and liquidation rights. A holder of Class B Common Stock may convert any shares of such stock into an equal number of shares of Class A Common Stock at any time at the holder's option. The Class B Common Stock is subject to automatic conversion into Class A Common Stock on a one-for-one basis upon the adoption of a resolution authorizing such conversion approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock voting as a separate class. In addition, any shares of Class B Common Stock sold or otherwise transferred to a person or entity other than an affiliate of the transferor will be automatically converted into an equal number of shares of Class A Common Stock upon such sale or transfer. A pledge of shares of Class B Common Stock is not considered a transfer for this purpose unless and until the pledge is enforced. Also, with respect to shares of Class B Common Stock held by ABI, those shares will automatically be converted into an equal number of shares of Class A Common Stock upon the occurrence of a "change of control" of ABI (as defined under Congoleum's Certificate of Incorporation). 36 (2) CFI CFI has 1,000 shares of common stock, each share having a par value of $0.01, authorized, of which 100 shares are issued and outstanding and owned by Congoleum. (3) CSI CSI has 1,000 shares of common stock, each share having a par value of $0.01, authorized, of which 100 shares are issued and outstanding and owned by Congoleum. 4.6. Other Matters (a) Environmental Proceedings Congoleum is named, together with a large number (in most cases, hundreds) of other companies, as a potentially responsible party ("PRP") in pending proceedings under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), and similar state laws. In addition, in four other instances, although not named as a PRP, Congoleum has received a request for information. The pending proceedings relate to eight disposal sites in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland in which recovery from generators of hazardous substances is sought for the cost of cleaning up the contaminated waste sites. Congoleum's ultimate liability in connection with those sites depends on many factors, including the volume of material contributed to the site, the number of other PRPs and their financial viability, the remediation methods and technology to be used and the extent to which costs may be recoverable from insurance. However, under CERCLA, and certain other laws, Congoleum, as a PRP, can be held jointly and severally liable for all environmental costs associated with a site. The most significant exposure to which Congoleum has been named a PRP relates to a recycling facility site in Elkton, Maryland. The PRP group at this site is made up of 81 companies, substantially all of which are large financially solvent entities. Two removal actions were substantially complete as of December 31, 1998 and a groundwater treatment system was installed thereafter. EPA recently selected a remedy for the soil and shallow groundwater; however, the remedial investigation/feasibility study related to the deep groundwater has not been completed. The PRP group estimates that future costs of the remedy recently selected by EPA based on engineering estimates would be approximately $11 million. Congoleum's proportionate share, based on waste disposed at the site, is estimated to be approximately 5.7%, or $0.7 million. The majority of Congoleum's share of costs is presently being paid by one of its insurance carriers, whose remaining policy limits for this claim will cover approximately half this amount. Congoleum expects the balance to be funded by other insurance carriers and Congoleum. Congoleum also accrues remediation costs for certain of Congoleum's owned facilities on an undiscounted basis. Congoleum has entered into an administrative consent order with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and has established a remediation trust fund of $100,000 as financial assurance for certain remediation funding obligations. Estimated total cleanup costs of $1.7 million, including capital outlays and future maintenance costs for soil and groundwater remediation, are primarily based on engineering studies. 37 Congoleum anticipates that these matters will be resolved over a period of years and that after application of expected insurance recoveries, funding the costs will not have a material adverse impact on Congoleum's liquidity or financial position. However, unfavorable developments in these matters could result in significant expenses or judgments that could have a material adverse effect on the financial position of Congoleum. (b) Other Matters Material to the Success of Reorganized Congoleum The success of Reorganized Congoleum is dependent upon several factors. One factor is the continuing contributions of key employees, both management and in the field. In addition, the relationships with its existing customer base and suppliers are important to Reorganized Congoleum's success. Finally, the performance of Reorganized Congoleum depends on Reorganized Congoleum's ability to retain its relationship with Wachovia during the Reorganization Cases and thereafter. ARTICLE 5 EVENTS DURING THE REORGANIZATION CASES 5.1. Commencement of the Reorganization Cases On December 31, 2003 (the "Petition Date"), Congoleum, CSI and CFI each filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Each Debtor was authorized to operate its business and manage its properties as a debtor-in-possession pursuant to sections 1107(a) and 1108 of the Bankruptcy Code. On or about January 7, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order providing for the joint administration of the Reorganization Cases. 5.2. Administration of the Reorganization Cases (a) Payment of Pre-Petition Debt Incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business On January 7, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered orders that authorized the Company to pay, in its discretion, all undisputed, unsecured pre-petition indebtedness and obligations (other than the Asbestos Claims, Senior Note Claims and any other indebtedness or liabilities that are impaired and to be restructured under the Plan) which were incurred in the ordinary course of business as such indebtedness and obligations mature in accordance with their terms, and to pay salaries, wages, benefits and other amounts owed to employees and consultants as such obligations become due, including obligations that were, or may have been, incurred prior to the Petition Date. (b) DIP Financing In order to fund ongoing business operations and to preserve the value of the Debtors' estates, the Debtors entered into a Ratification and Amendment Agreement (the "Ratification Agreement") with Wachovia to ratify and amend the Credit Facility in order to provide the Debtors with debtor-in-possession financing. The Debtors filed a Motion for Interim and Final Orders Pursuant to Sections 363(c) And 364(c) of the Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rule 4001 (1) Authorizing the Use of Cash Collateral, (2) Authorizing 38 Debtors to Obtain Interim Post-Petition Financing, (3) Granting Senior Liens and Priority Administrative Expense Status, (4) Modifying the Automatic Stay, (5) Authorizing Debtors to Enter into Agreements with Congress Financial Corporation, and (6) Prescribing Form and Manner of Notice and Time for Final Hearing under Bankruptcy Rule 4001(C) (the "DIP Motion"). On March 8, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered a final order authorizing the Debtors to obtain debtor-in-possession financing on a final basis, effective as of February 2, 2004 (the "DIP Order"). In summary, Wachovia agreed, subject to the terms of the Ratification Agreement, to make post-petition loans to Congoleum in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $30 million, including a sublimit of $5 million for letters of credit, subject to certain borrowing base and minimum excess availability restrictions. To secure this indebtedness, Wachovia was granted security interests in all of the collateral subject to security interests in the Credit Facility, all present and future accounts, all present and future acquired Inventory and all documents of title. In addition, the DIP Order provides, inter alia, that the obligations of the Debtors under the Ratification Agreement will constitute, in accordance with section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, allowed administrative expense claims against the Debtors in the Reorganization Cases, with such claims having priority over all other administrative expense claims and all unsecured claims of the Debtors then existing or thereafter arising, of any kind or nature whatsoever including, without limitation, all administrative expenses of the kinds specified in sections 503(b) and 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code. Reference should be made to the DIP Motion (including all exhibits thereto) and the Ratification Agreement, copies of which are on file with the Bankruptcy Court, for more details regarding the terms of the financing. On November 22, 2004, with the consent of Wachovia, the Debtors filed a motion pursuant to Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code for an Order Approving Amendment to Post-Petition Financing Agreement, which was granted by the Bankruptcy Court by order dated December 14, 2004. This amendment (i) amended the budget; (ii) extended the term of the existing Credit Facility from December 31, 2004 to June 30, 2005; (iii) placed new limitations on capital expenditures; and (iv) provided a new minimum EBITDA covenant. A fee of $150,000 was paid to Wachovia upon approval of this amendment by the Bankruptcy Court. On May 12, 2005, with the consent of Wachovia, the Debtors filed a motion pursuant to Section 363 and 364 of the Bankruptcy Code for an Order Approving Third Amendment to Post-Petition Financing Agreement, which was granted by the Bankruptcy Court on June 6, 2005. This amendment (i) extends the existing Credit Facility from June 30, 2005 to December 31, 2005 and (ii) provides a new minimum EBITDA covenant. A fee of $125,000 is payable to Wachovia upon approval of this amendment by the Bankruptcy Court. (c) Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date At the time the Debtors commenced the Reorganization Cases, no Asbestos Property Damage Claims were being asserted against the Debtors. In order to bind holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims to the Plan, the Debtors needed to ascertain whether any such claims existed, and if so, give such claimants notice and an opportunity to protect their interests. On January 13, 2004, the Debtors filed the Motion re: for Order (i) Establishing Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date; (ii) Approving Property Damage Proof of Claim Form; and (iii) Approving Scope and Form of Notice (the "Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date Motion"). The Bankruptcy Court, on February 2, 2004, 39 entered an Order establishing May 3, 2004 as the deadline by which holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims were required to assert such claims against the Debtors by the filing of an Asbestos Property Damage Proof of Claim Form or be forever barred from asserting any such claim against the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, the Plan Trust and other parties protected by the Bankruptcy Court's Orders or the Plan (the "Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date Order"). Because the Debtors were unaware of any holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims, notice of the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date was provided by publication in certain national newspapers and newspaper inserts, such as The New York Times and Parade Magazine, as well as trade publications for certain industries. In response, thirty-six (36) Asbestos Property Damage Proofs of Claim were filed which asserted Asbestos Property Damage Claims of approximately $900,000 in the aggregate. After reviewing the Asbestos Property Damage Claims to ensure that such claims were based upon the existence of Congoleum manufactured asbestos-containing products in the buildings for which claims are asserted as well as to ensure that such claims complied in all other respects with the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date Order, the Debtors filed objections to certain of the claims. By Order dated January 18, 2005, several Asbestos Property Damage Claims were expunged. As a result, 21 Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claims remain, which total approximately $180,000 in the aggregate. 5.3. Asbestos Claimants' Committee Section 1102 of the Bankruptcy Code authorizes the appointment of a committee of holders of unsecured claims and such other committees as the U.S. Trustee or the Bankruptcy Court may determine to appoint. On March 23, 2004, a motion was filed requesting that the United States Trustee appoint an official committee of asbestos-related personal injury claimants. On April 19, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order requiring the appointment of the Asbestos Claimants' Committee. On April 21, 2004, the United States Trustee appointed the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, which currently consists of the following members: (i) Frank Cettina, c/o Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C.; (ii) Michael Edwards, c/o Baron & Budd, P.C.; (iii) Gerald and Mae Ferro, c/o Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons & Farrise, a Professional Law Corporation; (iv) Harvey Overman, c/o Motley Rice, LLC; and (v) Lois J. Amati, c/o Robert Taylor, II, PC & Assocs. The Asbestos Claimants' Committee requested and obtained authority to employ the following professionals: (i) Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered as counsel to the Asbestos Claimants' Committee; and (ii) Goldstein Lem & Isaacson, P.C. as co-counsel to the Asbestos Claimants' Committee. In light of the authority granted by the Bankruptcy Court to pay undisputed pre-petition indebtedness and obligations which were incurred in the ordinary course of business as such indebtedness and obligations mature in accordance with their terms, described in Section 5.2(a) above, and the unimpairment of Claims other than Asbestos Claims, no statutory committee of unsecured non-asbestos-related creditors has been formed. 5.4. Bankruptcy Court Appointment of Futures Representative On February 18, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the appointment of R. Scott Williams as the Futures Representative (the "Futures Representative Appointment Order"). Mr. Williams' qualifications to serve as Futures Representative, and the process by which he was selected, 40 are set forth in Section 3.3 -- "Selection of the Futures Representative." Mr. Williams requested and obtained the authority to employ the following professionals: (i) Swidler Berlin LLP (formerly Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP) as co-counsel to Mr. Williams; (ii) Ravin Greenberg PC as co-counsel to Mr. Williams; and (iii) CIBC World Markets Corp. as financial advisor to Mr. Williams. On February 27, 2004, certain insurers of the Debtors appealed the Futures Representative Appointment Order. On August 9, 2004, the District Court entered an order affirming the Futures Representative Appointment Order. On September 8, 2004, the appellants appealed the District Court's order to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the "Court of Appeals"). By order dated February 23, 2005, with the agreement of the parties, the Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal. 5.5. Retention of Professionals The Debtors requested and obtained the authority to employ the following professionals: (i) Saul Ewing LLP ("Saul Ewing") as counsel to the Debtors; (ii) Gilbert Heintz & Randolph LLP ("GHR") as special insurance counsel to the Debtors; (iii) Dughi Hewit & Palatucci PC as special insurance counsel to the Debtors; (iv) SSG Capital Advisors, L.P. as financial advisors to the Debtors; (v) Ernst & Young LLP as audit and tax advisors to the Debtors; (vi) Guiliani Capital Advisors LLC (formerly Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC) as restructuring advisor to the Debtors; (vii) Peterson Risk Consulting as insurance allocation consultant to the Debtors; and (viii) Daley-Hodkin, LLC as appraiser. Certain of the Debtors' insurers appealed the Bankruptcy Court's Orders authorizing the retention of Saul Ewing and GHR. On August 9, 2004, the District Court affirmed the Bankruptcy Court's Order authorizing the retention of GHR. On September 8, 2004, the appellants appealed the District Court's order to the Court of Appeals. On August 26, 2004 the District Court vacated the Bankruptcy Court's order authorizing the retention of Saul Ewing and remanded the matter to the Bankruptcy Court for further fact finding. A stay of this Order was subsequently entered by the District Court pending an appeal by the Debtors. On September 24, 2004, the Debtors appealed the District Court's order to the Court of Appeals. While the Debtors and Saul Ewing disputed all allegations raised by the insurers challenging Saul Ewing's retention, the Debtors and Saul Ewing decided that further contesting those allegations could entail enduring a costly and potentially distracting appellate process. The Debtors and Saul Ewing did not want to add the prospect of delay, additional cost and unnecessary disruption to the Debtors' bankruptcy cases. Saul Ewing, in consultation with and consent of the Debtors, concluded that Saul Ewing should withdraw as the Debtors' counsel in order to avoid any potential distraction to the Debtors' reorganization efforts and potential additional cost to the Debtors' estates. On October 18, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court approved Saul Ewing's withdrawal as counsel to the Debtors and established a transition period during which Saul Ewing is to complete certain work for the Debtors. The Debtors requested and obtained the authority to employ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (formerly Pillsbury Winthrop LLP) and Okin, Hollander & DeLuca, LLP as substitute co-counsel to the Debtors. 41 5.6. Motion for Relief from Stay On January 6, 2004, certain of the Congoleum's insurers filed the Motion of Certain Insurers for Declaration that Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code is not Applicable, or, in the Alternative, for Relief from the Automatic Stay (the "Stay Motion"). The Stay Motion sought a declaration from the Bankruptcy Court that Coverage Litigation between Congoleum and certain of its insurers, described in Section 2.2(c) above, was not subject to the automatic stay provisions of section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code or, in the alternative, requesting that the Bankruptcy Court grant relief from the automatic stay so that the Coverage Litigation could proceed during the pendency of the Reorganization Cases. On March 22, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order that permitted the claims asserted in the Coverage Litigation (except for certain claims for rescission of insurance policies issued to Congoleum) to proceed without making a finding as to whether or not the automatic stay provisions of section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code applied to the Coverage Litigation. A motion by the Debtors to vacate this order was denied by the Bankruptcy Court at a hearing held on April 12, 2005. 5.7. Developments with Regard to Certain Pre-Petition Claims On February 28, 2005, the Debtors filed the Objection to Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of Certain Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants (First Set) (the "Claims Objection") seeking the disallowance and expungement of the Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of certain of the Participating Claimants that participated in the Claimant Agreement. The Claims Objection asserted that certain of such claims were potentially invalid because they may have been barred by the statutes of limitations and therefore may not have been filed in good faith. Certain of the claims were withdrawn, and other claimants did not respond. By the Order Concerning Debtors' Objection to Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of Certain Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants (First Set), dated April 5, 2005 and the Consent Order Withdrawing Motion Without Prejudice, dated April 27, 2005, the Bankruptcy Court disallowed approximately 580 claims totaling approximately $4.3 million. The Debtors are continuing due diligence regarding the allowability of claims pursuant to the Claimant Agreement. Under the terms of the Claimant Agreement, each claimant was required to provide evidence of bodily injury, sickness or disease and a verification that such claimant was exposed to asbestos or an asbestos-containing product for which Congoleum may have liability. Each claimant was also required to have filed in good faith a claim against Congoleum in a court of competent jurisdiction. In April 2005, the Debtors were contacted by Campbell Cherry Harrison David Dove ("Campbell Cherry") relating to certain claims submitted by their clients pursuant to the Claimant Agreement. The Campbell Cherry firm noted that one of the doctors whose reports had been submitted on behalf of their clients pursuant to the Claimant Agreement had intended to confirm the diagnosis made by the examining physician but did not intend to be the primary diagnosing physician. The Campbell Cherry firm submitted to the Debtors reports from the examining physician that had not been previously provided under the Claimant Agreement. The Debtors are reviewing the circumstances of the Campbell Cherry firm's recent submission. 42 5.8. Tolling Agreements With Respect to Asbestos Personal Injury Claims-Related Avoidance Actions On July 19, 2005, the Debtors filed a motion for the entry of an order authorizing and approving a form of tolling agreement (the "Asbestos Personal Injury Claim Tolling Agreement") to be entered into between the Debtors and counsel (in their capacity as attorney-in-fact) for certain holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims pursuant to Bankruptcy Code sections 105(a) and 546(a). If the motion is granted, the Debtors will request counsel for these claimants to enter into Asbestos Personal Injury Claim Tolling Agreements on behalf of their clients, which will extend and toll the time within which the Plan Trustee (or, if the Plan does not become effective and the Plan Trustee is not appointed, the Debtors) may commence any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action with respect to the claimants' Asbestos Personal Injury Claims to and including December 31, 2006. The Asbestos Personal Injury Claim Tolling Agreements also will extend and toll the time within which the Debtors may commence any other Bankruptcy Cause of Action with respect to the claimants' Asbestos Personal Injury Claims to and including December 31, 2006. The last day to commence any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action or Bankruptcy Causes of Action is December 31, 2005. Given the expected timing of the Confirmation Hearing and the necessity for District Court review of any Bankruptcy Code section 524(g) injunction and releases entered by the Bankruptcy Court, the Plan's ultimate Effective Date may actually fall after December 31, 2005. An election in favor of Forbearance and the subsequent Confirmation and effectiveness of the Plan may make avoidance actions with respect to certain pre-petition liens or insurance assignments moot. However, given the timing of the Plan's solicitation and the anticipated Effective Date, unless the deadlines for Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action and Bankruptcy Causes of Action are tolled, the Plan Trustee or the Debtors may not have a reasonable amount of time to commence these actions. The purpose of the Asbestos Personal Injury Claim Tolling Agreement, as set forth in more detail in the motion, is to preserve the ability of either the Plan Trustee or the Debtors to commence these actions. In the event any of these claimants or their counsel will not voluntarily execute an Asbestos Personal Injury Claim Tolling Agreement by October 31, 2005, the Debtors are prepared to commence any necessary avoidance actions against non-consenting claimants to preserve the interests of the Debtors' estates. 5.9. Settlements with Insurers and Brokers (a) Liberty Mutual Settlement Agreement On June 24, 2004, the Debtors filed a motion for approval of a settlement agreement with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company ("Liberty"), which provided primary liability insurance coverage to Congoleum including coverage for asbestos-related claims (the "Liberty Settlement"). On July 29, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the Liberty Settlement. In summary, the Liberty Settlement provides that Liberty will contribute $14,450,000 for the benefit of the Debtors' Estates. Upon the Confirmation Order becoming a Final Order, Liberty agreed to contribute an additional $950,000 for the benefit of the Plan Trust. In exchange, the Debtors agreed, among other things, to designate Liberty as a Settling Asbestos Insurance Company, thereby entitling Liberty to the benefit of certain injunctions under the Plan pursuant to 43 sections 105(a) and 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. Reference should be made to the Liberty Settlement, which is attached as an exhibit to the motion seeking approval of the Liberty Settlement and which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court for more details regarding the terms of the Liberty Settlement. (b) Marsh and Aon Settlements On September 28, 2004, the Debtors filed motions for the approval of settlement agreements with Marsh USA, Inc. et al. ("Marsh") and Aon Corporation et al. ("Aon"), both of which provided insurance brokerage services to Congoleum with respect to certain of the policies issued to Congoleum that provide coverage for Asbestos Personal Injury Claims (respectively, the "Marsh Settlement" and the "Aon Settlement"). On October 18, 2004, the Bankruptcy Court approved the Marsh and Aon Settlements. In summary, the Marsh and Aon Settlements provides that Marsh and Aon will contribute $40,000 and $75,000, respectively, for the benefit of the Debtors' Estates. Reference should be made to the Marsh Settlement and the Aon Settlement, which are attached as exhibits to the motions seeking approval of the Marsh and Aon Settlements and which are on file with the Bankruptcy Court for more details regarding the terms of those settlements. (c) AIG Settlement On May 13, 2005, the Debtors filed a Motion Pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 9019 and Bankruptcy Code Section 363 Approving Insurance Settlement Agreement with Certain AIG Companies ("AIG") (the "AIG Settlement"). On June 28, 2005, the Bankruptcy Court approved the AIG Settlement. AIG provided excess liability insurance coverage to Congoleum for asbestos-related claims. Under the terms of the settlement, AIG will pay $103 million over ten years to the Plan Trust. In exchange, the Debtors agreed, among other things, to designate AIG as a Settling Asbestos Insurance Company, thereby entitling AIG to the benefit of certain injunctions under the Plan pursuant to sections 105(a) and 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. The settlement resolves coverage obligations of policies with a total of $114 million in liability limits for asbestos bodily injury claims, and is subject to final Bankruptcy Court approval and effectiveness of the Plan. Reference should be made to the AIG Settlement, which is attached as an exhibit to the motion seeking approval of the AIG Settlement and which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court for more details regarding the terms of the AIG Settlement. (d) Lloyd's and Equitas Settlement On June 27, 2005, the Debtors filed a Motion Pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 9019 and Bankruptcy Code Section 363 Approving Insurance Settlement Agreement with Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London ("Lloyd's Underwriters") (the "Lloyd's Settlement"). Lloyd's Underwriters severally subscribed to certain policies of insurance under which Congoleum is an insured (the "London Policies"). Congoleum and the Lloyd's Underwriters dispute whether, and to what extent, the London Policies afford coverage for Asbestos Claims (the "Coverage Dispute"). In an effort to resolve the Coverage Dispute, Congoleum and Lloyd's Underwriters have entered into the Lloyd's Settlement. Under the terms of the settlement, Lloyd's Underwriters will pay a total of $19.95 million to the Plan Trust and Lloyd's Underwriters and Equitas Limited, Equitas Reinsurance Limited, Equitas Holdings Limited, Equitas Management Services Limited, and Equitas Policyholders Trust Limited (collectively, "Equitas"), solely in their capacity as Lloyd's Underwriters' reinsurer and run-off agent, will be designated as 44 Settling Asbestos Insurance Companies, thereby entitling Lloyd's Underwriters and Equitas to certain injunctions under the Plan pursuant to sections 105(a) and 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. The settlement is subject to Bankruptcy Court approval and effectiveness of the Plan. Reference should be made to the Lloyd's Settlement, which is attached as an exhibit to the motion seeking approval of the Lloyd's Settlement and which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court for more details regarding the terms of the Lloyd's Settlement. 5.10. Modifications to the Plan On November 12, 2004, the Debtors filed the Fourth Modified Joint Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of Congoleum Corporation, et al., dated as of November 12, 2004 (the "Fourth Modified Plan"). In January 2005, the Debtors commenced a solicitation with respect to the Fourth Modified Plan. Votes were solicited from holders of Claims in Classes 2, 3 and 9 and former Class 10 (now Classes 10 and 11) and Class 11 (now Class 12) and holders of Interests in former Class 12 (now Class 13) (the "Post-Petition Solicitation"). Based on the votes received for the Post-Petition Solicitation, the Fourth Modified Plan was overwhelmingly supported by a majority of the Debtors' creditors, including the holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. In April 2005, while the parties were preparing for a contested confirmation hearing on the Fourth Modified Plan, the Debtors met with the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Futures Representative and the Claimants' Representative to discuss further modifications to the Fourth Modified Plan to eliminate or minimize certain objections to the Plan. These discussions led to an agreement in principle that holders of Secured Asbestos Claims in Class 2 and Class 3 would permanently forbear from enforcing their lien and/or security interest claims in and to the Plan Trust Assets and such creditors would share pro rata with holders of Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and Demands from a single, common fund to be held in the Plan Trust. The consensual modifications to the Plan include a request for the Forbearance of security interests by the holders of Class 2 and Class 3 Claims. Class 2 Claims are limited to those claims governed by the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements. The holders of Class 2 Claims, by their counsel, are being requested to affirmatively sign a forbearance agreement with Congoleum. Class 3 Claims are held by those claimants who qualified under the Claimant Agreement. The holders of Class 3 Claims have an option to forbear, and thus release, the security interest granted under the Claimant Agreement, and will be deemed to have forborne the security interest unless they file an objection to the Forbearance by the objection deadline set by the Bankruptcy Court. Forbearance is voluntary and, if a claimant consents or is deemed to have consented to the Forbearance, his or her claim will be treated in all respects pari passu with other Class 2 and Class 3 Claims and Claims in Class 10 and Class 11. If the Plan is confirmed, then the Forbearance, once given, is irrevocable. If a claimant elects not to forbear and objects to the Forbearance in accordance with procedures approved by the Bankruptcy Court, such Claim shall be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and subject to objection by the Plan Trustee as set forth in Section 6.4(b)(2) (Class 2 Claims) and Section 6.4(c)(2) (Class 3 Claims) of this Disclosure Statement. The Plan grants the Plan Trust the power to pursue avoidance actions against Plan Trust Disputed Claims and the power to object to any Claims on the basis of a breach of the Claimant Agreement or relevant Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement, the lack of good faith in 45 submitting claims, or other grounds as specified in Section 12.4 of the Plan. As a condition to confirmation, the holders of all Class 2 Claims and the holders of at least 95% of Class 3 Claims must consent or be deemed to have consented to the Forbearance, unless the condition is waived by the parties specified in Section 10.3 of the Plan. While there is no obligation upon any claimant to grant the Forbearance in respect of the security interest held under a Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement or the Claimant Agreement, Congoleum proposed this modification to the Plan to ease the passage of the Plan towards confirmation and to address certain objections that were filed with respect to confirmation of the Fourth Modified Plan based in part on recent legal precedent issued by the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals subsequent to the filing of the Fourth Modified Plan. Although the decision to forbear is entirely voluntary, Congoleum believes that the modifications reflected in the Plan, including the Forbearance, will reduce or eliminate objections to confirmation and result in a smoother confirmation process. Should a claimant decline to forbear, this may subject the claimant to an avoidance action by the Plan Trustee that, if successful, would affect the payment of the Claim held and would eliminate any security for such claim (under Section 12.4, holders of Secured Asbestos Claims that do forbear shall remain subject to objection by the Plan Trustee as specified therein). If any of the holders of Class 2 Claims or more than 5% of the holders of Class 3 claims decline to forbear, the Plan may not be confirmed. Claimants holding Claims in Class 2 or Class 3 must make the decision whether to forbear or to seek enforcement of their security interest in full in consultation with counsel, in full knowledge of the consequences of both the Forbearance and a decision not to agree to the Forbearance. On June 10, 2005, the Debtors filed the Fifth Modified Joint Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of Congoleum Corporation, et al., dated as of June 10, 2005 (the "Fifth Modified Plan"). In addition to technical, non-substantive modifications, the Fifth Modified Plan modified the Fourth Modified Plan as follows: (1) Sections 2.3 and 4.1 of the Plan. Sections 2.3 and 4.1 of the Plan, concerning the classification and treatment of Claims, were modified to reflect that the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims in Classes 2 and 3 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10 and Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11 will be paid pari passu with each other in all respects. Specifically, each holder of a Secured Asbestos Claim in Classes 2 and 3 will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements or under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement, as applicable, and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof. Section 4.1 further provides that if any holder of a Secured Asbestos Claim timely objects to such Forbearance, his, her or its Asbestos Claim will be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and the validity of such Asbestos Claim will be subject to objection by the Plan Trustee. Furthermore, former Class 10, which consisted of the Unsecured 46 Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, was split into Classes 10 and 11. Class 10 now consists of Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and Class 11 consists of Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. (2) Section 8.5 of the Plan. Section 8.5 of the Plan, concerning compensation and benefit programs, was modified to clarify that Reorganized Congoleum will continue the Pension Plans, satisfy minimum funding standards and administer the Pension Plans in accordance with their terms and applicable law, and to make it clear that nothing in the Plan will be construed as discharging, releasing or relieving the Debtors from any liability imposed under any law or regulatory provision with respect to the Pension Plans or the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. (3) Section 10.1 of the Plan. Section 10.1 of the Plan, which addresses the conditions to confirmation of the Plan, was modified to incorporate, as additional conditions to confirmation of the Plan, that (i) at least 95% of the holders of Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof and (ii) a forbearance agreement, in the form set forth in Exhibit I to the Plan, will have been executed and delivered on behalf of Congoleum and all of the Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants. (4) Section 11.1 of the Plan. Section 11.1 of the Plan, which addresses the Debtors' discharge, was modified to reflect that certain claims filed by the Internal Revenue Service will not be discharged and will be determined administratively or in a judicial forum as if the Reorganization Cases had not been commenced. (5) Sections 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 of the Plan. Sections 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 of the Plan, which address exculpation and releases, were modified to clarify that in no event will any party be exculpated or released from liability in the case of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such party. (6) Section 12.4 of the Plan. Section 12.4 of the Plan, concerning the vesting and enforcement of Causes of Action, was modified to clarify that the Plan Trust will be vested with the right to void any Asbestos Claim because of failure to comply with the requirements of any applicable settlement agreement (including the Claimant Agreement) or because such claim was not submitted in good faith or otherwise. 47 (7) Section 12.5 of the Plan. Section 12.5 of the Plan, concerning Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action, was modified to except Plan Trust Disputed Claims from the Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action to be released by the Debtors. (8) Sections 11.11 and 13.22 of the Plan and Other "Insurance Neutrality" Provisions. Section 11.11 of the Plan concerning a reservation of insurance company rights and Section 13.22 concerning the duty to cooperate under any Asbestos Insurance Policy were deleted. In addition, all Plan provisions related to "insurance neutrality" were deleted. These changes have been made consistent with the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the Fourth Modified Plan and all prior versions of the Plan were not "insurance neutral" and that the Asbestos Insurance Companies have standing to object to the Plan and to make clear that the Asbestos Insurance Companies will therefore be bound by the Plan Documents and the Confirmation Order. (9) Exhibit D to the Plan - "Plan Trust Agreement." Section 3.4(c) of the Plan Trust Agreement concerning the indemnification of the Claimants' Representative and the Collateral Trustee, was revised to reflect that the indemnity applies to acts or omissions with respect to the negotiation and implementation of modifications to the Plan, the other Plan Documents and the Collateral Trust Agreement contemplated by the Fifth Modified Plan and made on or after April 1, 2005. (10) Exhibit H to the Plan - "Trust Distribution Procedures" and Exhibit B to the Plan - "Collateral Trust Agreement." Section III of the TDP was revised to reflect the Forbearance. Under the revised TDP, all Asbestos Personal Injury Claims will be paid without priority in payment and in all respects pari passu with each other. The Forbearance and the treatment of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims under the TDP is described, in detail, in Section 6.4 - "Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests" below. (11) Exhibit I to the Plan - "Forbearance Agreement." A forbearance agreement (the "Forbearance Agreement") has been added as Exhibit I to the Plan. The Forbearance Agreement provides, inter alia, for the agreement on behalf of each of the Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants to the Forbearance. The Forbearance and the treatment of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims under the TDP is described, in detail, in Section 6.4 - "Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests" below. On July 22, 2005, the Debtors filed the Sixth Modified Joint Plan of Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of Congoleum Corporation, et al. (the "Sixth Modified Plan") to incorporate certain technical modifications to the Plan. 5.11. Standing of Insurers to be Heard The Debtors filed motions challenging the standing of certain of Congoleum's insurers to raise objections and be heard in the Reorganization Cases, specifically with regard to the Disclosure Statement, the Second Modified Plan and the Fourth Modified Plan. The Bankruptcy Court ruled that the insurers 48 do not have standing to raise objections and be heard with respect to the Disclosure Statement. As to the Second Modified Plan and the Fourth Modified Plan, however, the Bankruptcy Court ruled that the insurers have standing to raise objections and be heard. Many of the insurers filed preliminary objections to the Second Modified Plan and objections to the Fourth Modified Plan (the "Plan Objections"). It is anticipated that the insurers may file amended or supplemental objections in connection with the filing of the Sixth Modified Plan. 5.12. Discovery Conducted by the Parties (a) Fact Discovery In connection with the Plan Objections, the insurers and the Debtors engaged in extensive discovery in preparation for the Confirmation Hearing on the Fourth Modified Plan. The parties have exchanged voluminous amounts of documents, as well as obtaining documents from representatives of the parties and certain other parties-in-interest in the Reorganization Cases, including many of the counsel to the holders of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. Most of the Debtors' senior management, as well as certain professionals retained by the Debtors, have been deposed by the insurers. Likewise, the Debtors have taken the depositions of representatives of certain of the insurers in the Coverage Action. (b) Expert Witness Discovery Both the Debtors and the insurers have identified certain expert witnesses that they expect to call to testify at the Confirmation Hearing. Expert witness reports were exchanged on June 19, 2004. Further expert witness discovery, including depositions of expert witnesses and the identification and exchange of rebuttal expert witness reports, occurred in connection with the Fourth Modified Plan. In addition, supplemental expert reports may be exchanged in connection with the Plan. 5.13. Confirmation Hearing The Confirmation Hearing is currently scheduled to commence on [November 15, 2005]. Notice of the Confirmation Hearing will be published in one or more newspapers of general circulation in locations where the Company has substantial business operations, and will be mailed to all known holders of Claims, at least 25 days before the date of the Confirmation Hearing, unless the Bankruptcy Court specifies otherwise. See Section 7.2 -- "Confirmation Hearing" below. Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code requires that any confirmation order containing a supplemental injunction must be issued or affirmed by the District Court. If the Confirmation Order is not issued by the District Court exercising its bankruptcy jurisdiction, the Debtors will seek to have the Confirmation Order affirmed promptly by the District Court. See Section 7.3(e) -- "Injunction Under Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code". 49 ARTICLE 6 SUMMARY OF THE PLAN 6.1. General The following is a summary intended as a brief overview of certain provisions of the Plan and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Plan, a copy of which is annexed hereto as Exhibit A. Other provisions of the Plan not summarized in this Article 6 may be summarized elsewhere in this Disclosure Statement. Holders of Claims and Interests are respectfully referred to the relevant provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and are encouraged to review the Plan and this Disclosure Statement with their counsel, or other advisors. 6.2. Classification (a) Generally Article II of the Plan sets forth an explanation of Claims that are not classified under the Plan and a designation of Classes of Claims and Interests. (b) Unclassified Claims In accordance with section 1123(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, Administrative Claims, including Substantial Contribution Claims, and Priority Tax Claims are not classified and are excluded from the Classes established in Article II of the Plan. The treatment accorded Administrative Claims, Substantial Contribution Claims and Priority Tax Claims is set forth in Article III of the Plan. (c) Classes For purposes of the Plan, the Claims against and Interests in the Debtors are grouped in the following Classes in accordance with section 1122(a) of the Bankruptcy Code: Class 1 - Priority Claims Class 2 - Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants Class 3 - Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants Class 4 - Lender Secured Claims Class 5 - Other Secured Claims Class 6 - Senior Note Claims Class 7 - General Unsecured Claims Class 8 - Workers' Compensation Claims Class 9 - ABI Claims 50 Class 10 - Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims Class 11 - Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims Class 12- Asbestos Property Damage Claims Class 13 - Congoleum Majority Interests Class 14 - Congoleum Minority Interests Class 15 - Subsidiary Interests 6.3. Treatment of Administrative Claims and Priority Tax Claims (a) Administrative Claims On the Distribution Date, each holder of an Allowed Administrative Claim will receive, except as otherwise provided in the Plan and subject to the requirements of Section 13.11 of the Plan, either Cash equal to the unpaid portion of such Allowed Administrative Claim, or such different treatment as agreed by the applicable Debtor and such holder in writing; provided, however, that Allowed Administrative Claims representing (i) post-petition liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business by the Debtors and (ii) post-petition contractual liabilities arising under loans or advances to the Debtors (whether or not incurred in the ordinary course of business), will be paid by the Reorganized Debtors in accordance with the terms and conditions of the particular transactions relating to such liabilities and any related agreements. (b) Priority Tax Claims On the Distribution Date, each holder of an Allowed Priority Tax Claim will receive (i) Cash equal to the unpaid portion of such Allowed Priority Tax Claim, (ii) such different treatment as agreed by the applicable Debtor and such holder in writing, or (iii) at the Reorganized Debtors' sole discretion, deferred Cash payments over a period not exceeding six years after the assessment date of such Allowed Priority Tax Claim, valued as of the Effective Date in an amount equal to such Allowed Priority Tax Claim. 6.4. Treatment of Classified Claims and Interests Allowed Claims and Allowed Interests, as classified in Article II of the Plan, will be treated in the manner set forth in Article IV of the Plan. The following constitutes a summary of such treatment: (a) Class 1 - Priority Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 1 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Each holder of an Allowed Priority Claim in Class 1 is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. 51 (2) Treatment On the Distribution Date, each holder of an Allowed Priority Claim will receive either (i) the Allowed Amount of its Priority Claim in Cash, or (ii) such different treatment as may be agreed to by such holder and the Reorganized Debtors. The Reorganized Debtors will be responsible for payment of Allowed Priority Claims. (b) Class 2 - Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants (1) Impairment and Voting Class 2 is Impaired by the Plan. Class 2 consists of all Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants to the extent secured under the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement, and are asserted by any parties to the Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements who are designated as Qualified Claimants pursuant to the Claimant Agreement and the Collateral Trust Agreement. Each holder of a Secured Asbestos Claim of a Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant in Class 2 is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under sections 524(g) and 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each such Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant will, in respect of its Allowed Secured Asbestos Claim, be paid by the Plan Trust, in full satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of and in exchange for such Claim, in Cash in accordance with the provisions of the Plan Documents without priority of payment and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants in Class 3 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. The Asbestos Claims of the Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants are secured to the full extent of their liquidated settlement amounts, as determined under the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements and certified to the Plan Trust on the Effective Date by the Collateral Trustee or its designee; provided, however, effective as of the Effective Date, each such Qualified Pre-Petition Claimant will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under the respective Pre-Petition Settlement Agreements and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof in accordance with procedures established by the Bankruptcy Court. If any Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant timely objects to such Forbearance, the Secured Asbestos Claim of such objecting Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant will be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and the validity of such Secured Asbestos Claim will be subject to objection by the Plan Trustee based on (i) the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement; (ii) any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action, notwithstanding any limitations on such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Actions contained in Section 12.5 of the Plan; and (iii) any other Cause of Action available to the Plan Trustee under Section 12.4 of the Plan or otherwise. Upon the occurrence of such Forbearance, such Forbearance will be irrevocable. 52 (c) Class 3 - Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants (1) Impairment and Voting Class 3 is Impaired by the Plan. Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants constitute Plan Trust Asbestos Claims that are secured according to the provisions of the Collateral Trust Agreement, and that are asserted by Asbestos Claimants designated as Participating Claimants pursuant to the Claimant Agreement and the Collateral Trust Agreement. Each holder of a Secured Asbestos Claim of Qualified Participating Claimants in Class 3 is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under sections 524(g) and 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each such Qualified Participating Claimant will, in respect of its Allowed Secured Asbestos Claim, be paid by the Plan Trust, in full satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of and in exchange for such Claim, in Cash in accordance with the provisions of the Plan Documents without priority of payment and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants in Class 2 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. The Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of the Qualified Participating Claimants are Secured Asbestos Claims to the extent of seventy-five percent (75%) of the Qualified Participating Claimant's Settlement Amount; provided, however, effective as of the Effective Date, each such Qualified Participating Claimant will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof in accordance with procedures established by the Bankruptcy Court. If any Qualified Participating Claimant timely objects to such Forbearance, the Asbestos Claim of such objecting Qualified Participating Claimant will be deemed a Plan Trust Disputed Claim and the validity of such Asbestos Claim, including the Class 11 portion of such Asbestos Claim, will be subject to objection by the Plan Trustee based on (i) the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement; (ii) any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action, notwithstanding any limitations on such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Actions contained in Section 12.5 of the Plan; and (iii) any other Cause of Action available to the Plan Trustee under Section 12.4 of the Plan or otherwise. Upon the occurrence of such Forbearance, such Forbearance will be irrevocable. Each Qualified Participating Claimant holds a Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim in Class 11 with respect to twenty-five percent (25%) of his or her Qualified Participating Claimant's Settlement Amount. 53 (d) Class 4 - Lender Secured Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 4 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Lender Secured Claims constitute any Claim arising under or relating to the Existing Credit Agreement, Existing Subsidiary Guaranty or any related documents. Each holder of a Lender Secured Claim in Class 4 is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment On the Effective Date, the Existing Credit Agreement, as ratified, amended and approved in accordance with the Financing Order will be amended and restated in accordance with the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement and the holder of the Allowed Lender Secured Claim will be entitled to all the rights and benefits of a Lender under the Amended Credit Agreement and related documents, which will be on terms and conditions mutually acceptable to the Debtors and Wachovia. Alternatively, if, as of the Confirmation Hearing, the Debtors and the holder of the Lender Secured Claim have not agreed upon the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement, the Lender Secured Claim will be paid in full indefeasibly on the Effective Date or as soon thereafter as practicable and Wachovia will be released from any and all liabilities and causes of action in accordance with the Financing Order. (e) Class 5 - Other Secured Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 5 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Each sub-Class of Class 5 Other Secured Claims contains a single Other Secured Claim and is a separate Class for all purposes under the Bankruptcy Code and the Plan. If the Claim of a holder of an Other Secured Claim exceeds the value of the Collateral that secures it, such holder will have an Other Secured Claim equal to the Collateral's value and a General Unsecured Claim for the deficiency. Other Secured Claims include any pre-petition Secured Claim asserted against the Debtors, other than Lender Secured Claims and Secured Asbestos Claims. Each holder of an Other Secured Claim in Class 5 is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment The legal, equitable and contractual rights of the holders of Allowed Other Secured Claims are Unimpaired by the Plan and all such Claims will be Reinstated on the Effective Date. (f) Class 6 - Senior Note Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 6 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Senior Note Claims constitute Claims based upon the Senior Notes. Each holder of a Senior Note Claim in Class 6 is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. 54 (2) Treatment The legal, equitable and contractual rights of the holders of Allowed Senior Note Claims are Unimpaired by the Plan and all such Claims will be Reinstated on the Effective Date. (g) Class 7 - General Unsecured Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 7 is Unimpaired by the Plan. General Unsecured Claims constitute Unsecured Claims against the Debtors other than Asbestos Claims, Senior Note Claims, ABI Claims and Workers Compensation Claims, including without limitation Claims in respect of rent, trade payables and similar such Claims. Each holder of an Allowed General Unsecured Claim is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment The legal, equitable and contractual rights of the holders of Allowed General Unsecured Claims are Unimpaired by the Plan and all such Claims will be Reinstated on the Effective Date. (h) Class 8 - Workers' Compensation Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 8 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Each holder of an Allowed Workers' Compensation Claim is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment The holders of Allowed Workers' Compensation Claims will be paid in the ordinary course pursuant to such rights that exist under any state workers' compensation system or laws that apply to such Claims. (i) Class 9 - ABI Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 9 is Impaired by the Plan. The holder of the Allowed ABI Claims is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment ABI, as the holder of the ABI Claims, will receive the following treatment: (a) all ABI Claims (other than ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claims, ABI Asbestos Property Damage Claims and Other ABI Asbestos Claims) will 55 be Reinstated and will be payable subject to the limitations set forth in the Plan, the Promissory Note and the Pledge Agreement; (b) ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claims will be channeled to and become the obligations of the Plan Trust, and be payable in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the TDP, subject to the limitations of payments set forth in the Plan, the TDP, the Promissory Note and the Pledge Agreement; and (c) all ABI Asbestos Property Damage Claims and Other ABI Asbestos Claims will be deemed Disallowed and expunged. (j) Class 10 - Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 10 is Impaired by the Plan. Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims constitute all Asbestos Personal Injury Claims other than the Secured Asbestos Claims or Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims described in Classes 2, 3 and 11. Class 10 Claims include, but are not limited to any Unknown Asbestos Claim. Each holder of a Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under sections 524(g) and 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims as well as liability for all future Demands and Unknown Asbestos Claims will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim, future Demand and Unknown Asbestos Claim will be paid pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims in Classes 2 and 3 and the Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 11. The TDP will apply to all holders of Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, Unknown Asbestos Claims and Demands, including any such holder who elects to resort to the legal system and obtains a judgment for money damages. Each holder of a Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim will be deemed to have assigned to the Plan Trust, and the Plan Trustee will be deemed such holder's sole attorney in fact, as may be appropriate, to prosecute, at the Plan Trustee's discretion with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, any Direct Action. The Plan Trustee may, with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, reassign such Direct Action to such holder at any time. (k) Class 11 - Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 11 is Impaired by the Plan. Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims constitute the unsecured portion of the liquidated claims of Participating Claimants (as described in the Claimant 56 Agreement). Each holder of a Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under sections 524(g) and 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each Allowed Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim will be paid pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP and in all respects pari passu with the Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims in Classes 2 and 3 and the Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in Class 10. The TDP will apply to all holders of Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims. Each holder of a Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim will be deemed to have assigned to the Plan Trust, and the Plan Trustee will be deemed such holder's sole attorney in fact, as may be appropriate, to prosecute, at the Plan Trustee's discretion with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, any Direct Action. The Plan Trustee may, with the consent and approval of the Trust Advisory Committee and the Futures Representative, reassign such Direct Action to such holder at any time. (l) Class 12 - Asbestos Property Damage Claims (1) Impairment and Voting Class 12 is Impaired by the Plan. Asbestos Property Damage Claims constitute all Asbestos Property Damage Claims for which Proofs of Claim have been filed prior to the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date. Each holder of an Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claim had the opportunity to vote to accept or reject the treatment of their Claim under the Fourth Modified Plan and will not be resolicited with respect to the Sixth Modified Plan. (2) Treatment As of the Effective Date, all liability for all Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claims will be assumed, automatically and without further act or deed, by the Plan Trust, and the Reorganized Debtors will have no liability therefor. Each Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claim will be paid solely from the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Sub-Account on account of the unpaid Allowed Amount of such Claim as determined pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement. After the assets in the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Sub-Account have been exhausted, the Plan Trust will have no further liability or obligation for or in respect of any Asbestos Property Damage Claims. All Asbestos Property Damage Claims as to which a Proof of Claim was not filed prior to the expiration of the Asbestos Property Damage Claim Bar Date will be deemed Disallowed. 57 (m) Class 13 - Congoleum Majority Interests (1) Impairment and Voting Class 13 is Impaired by the Plan. ABI, as the holder of the Congoleum Majority Interests, is entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment On the Effective Date, ABI will retain the Congoleum Majority Interests. To secure the obligations of Reorganized Congoleum under the Promissory Note, the Pledged Stock and the Other Collateral will be pledged by ABI to the Plan Trust pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and held by the Plan Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement. (n) Class 14 - Congoleum Minority Interests (1) Impairment and Voting Class 14 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Each holder of a Congoleum Minority Interest is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment On the Effective Date, the holders of the Congoleum Minority Interests will retain such Interests. (o) Class 15 - Subsidiary Interests (1) Impairment and Voting Class 15 is Unimpaired by the Plan. Each holder of a Subsidiary Interest is conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan and is not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan under section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code. (2) Treatment On the Effective Date, the holders of the Subsidiary Interests will retain such Subsidiary Interests. 6.5. Means for Execution of the Plan (a) Establishment of the Plan Trust On the Effective Date, the Plan Trust will be established in accordance with the Plan Documents. See Article 8 -- "Plan Trust and Asbestos Claims Resolution Matters" for a description of the Plan Trust. In addition, on the Effective Date, the Plan Trust established pursuant to the Plan Trust Agreement will become solely responsible for the payment of all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. See Section 5.1 of the Plan for a further description of the Plan Trust. 58 (b) Plan Trust Funding (1) The Collateral Trust On the Effective Date, pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Plan, all of the Collateral Trust's right, title and interest in and to any assets or properties then held by the Collateral Trust will automatically be transferred and assigned to, and vest in, the Plan Trust, free and clear of all Claims, Liens and encumbrances of the Debtors or any creditor, shareholder, or other Entity, without any further action of any Entity. (2) The Promissory Note On the Effective Date, Congoleum will issue a promissory note to the Plan Trust in the initial aggregate principal amount of $2,738,234.75 (the "Original Principal Amount") which represents 51% of the market capitalization of Congoleum as of June 6, 2003, with such amount being subject to increase in the amount, if any, by which 51% of Congoleum's market capitalization based on the average trading prices at the close of trading for the 90 consecutive trading days beginning on the one year anniversary of the Effective Date, exceeds the Original Principal Amount. This adjustment amount could result in the principal amount of the note increasing materially. For example, if the adjustment amount were calculated based on the excess of 51% of the equity value of Congoleum over $2.7 million during the 90 consecutive day trading period ended March 31, 2005, the resulting adjustment amount would be $21.2 million. The form of the Promissory Note is attached to the Plan as Exhibit "F." (3) The ABI Contribution On the Effective Date, ABI will make the ABI Contribution to the Plan Trust. (4) The Liberty Payment Upon the Confirmation Order becoming a Final Order, Liberty will contribute $950,000 to the Plan Trust. (5) The AIG Payment Conditioned upon the order approving the AIG Settlement becoming a Final Order, the occurrence of the Effective Date, the Confirmation Order becoming a Final Order and AIG having been designated as Settling Asbestos Insurance Companies, AIG will contribute approximately $103 million to the Plan Trust in 40 quarterly installments over a ten year period. (6) The Lloyd's Underwriters Payment Conditioned upon the order approving the Lloyd's Settlement becoming a Final Order, the occurrence of the Effective Date, the Confirmation Order becoming a Final Order and Lloyd's Underwriters and Equitas having been designated as Settling Asbestos Insurance Companies, Lloyd's Underwriters will contribute approximately $20 million to the Plan Trust. 59 (7) Additional Plan Trust Contribution If ABI prepays the Promissory Note in accordance with the terms of the Promissory Note at any time after the Principal Adjustment Date (as defined in the Promissory Note), but prior to the third anniversary of the Principal Adjustment Date, and subsequent to that payment, but prior to such third anniversary there is a Disposition Event, then if the Second Re-Measurement Value exceeds the greater of the Re-Measurement Value (as defined in the Promissory Note) and $2,738,234.75, ABI will, following the effective date of such Disposition Event promptly pay to the Plan Trust an amount equal to 50% of such excess amount. ABI may not prepay the Promissory Note prior to the Principal Adjustment Date. Congoleum will be obligated to repay ABI for the Additional Plan Trust Contribution, which repayment obligation will be evidenced by a promissory note substantially similar in form and content to the Promissory Note with any amount paid by ABI with regard to the Additional Plan Trust Contribution constituting principal that will be treated in substantially the same manner as the Original Principal Amount is treated under the Promissory Note. (c) Plan Distributions The Disbursing Agent will make all distributions required under the Plan (other than distributions to holders of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims). Distributions will be made on the Distribution Date (unless otherwise provided by the Plan or ordered by the Bankruptcy Court) with respect to all Claims except for Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. Distributions to be made on the Distribution Date will be deemed actually made on the Distribution Date if made either (a) on the Distribution Date or (b) as soon as practicable thereafter. With respect to Plan Trust Asbestos Claims, distributions to holders of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be made in accordance with the Plan Trust Agreement and/or the TDP, as applicable. As provided in the TDP, the Plan Trust will pay 100% of the proceeds of any Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries, net of any payment of or reserve for Plan Trust Expenses and any payment of or reimbursement for Coverage Costs in accordance with the terms of the Plan Trust Agreement, to the Payment Percentage Claims in accordance with the TDP, provided that such distributions will not be prior to payment of or reserve for Plan Trust Expenses nor prior to payment of or reserve for Coverage Costs in accordance with the terms of the Plan Trust Agreement. (d) Procedures for the Treatment of Disputed Claims (1) Disallowance of Improperly Filed Claims Subject to section 502(j) of the Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rules 3008 and 9006, any Administrative Claim, Asbestos Property Damage Claim or Claim (other than Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and ABI Claims) for which the filing of a Proof of Claim, application or motion with the Bankruptcy Court is required under the terms of the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy Rules, any order of the Bankruptcy Court (including one providing a Bar Date) or the Plan will be disallowed if and to the extent that such Proof of Claim (or other filing) is not timely and properly made. (2) Prosecution of Objections to Claims Unless otherwise ordered by the Bankruptcy Court after notice and a hearing, after the Effective Date the Reorganized Debtors will have the exclusive right to make and file objections to Proofs of Claims, other than 60 Proofs of Claims in respect of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, Unknown Asbestos Claims, Professional Fee Claims and ABI Asbestos Claims, at any time on or before ninety days after the later of (i) the Effective Date or (ii) the date on which such Claim was filed with the Bankruptcy Court unless no Proof of Claim is required to be filed pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 3002, the Plan or any order of the Bankruptcy Court; provided, however, that (x) this deadline may be extended by the Bankruptcy Court on motion by the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and (y) neither the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors nor any other Person may file an objection to any (1) Claim that was Allowed by a Final Order entered during the Reorganization Cases, or (2) Claim Allowed by the Plan. In addition, unless otherwise ordered by the Bankruptcy Court after notice and a hearing, after the Effective Date the Reorganized Debtors, subject to Sections 13.5 and 13.11 of the Plan, will have the exclusive right to make and file objections to Administrative Claims and to amend the Schedules or to object to any Claim specified on the Schedules, at any time on or before sixty (60) days after the later of (i) the Effective Date or (ii) the date on which such Claim was filed with the Bankruptcy Court unless no Proof of Claim is required to be filed pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 3002, the Plan or any order of the Bankruptcy Court; provided, however, that (x) this deadline may be extended by the Bankruptcy Court on motion by the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, as applicable, and (y) neither the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors nor any other Person may file an objection to any (1) Claim that was Allowed by a Final Order entered during the Reorganization Cases, or (2) Claim Allowed by the Plan. After the Effective Date, only the Plan Trustee will have the authority to contest Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, Unknown Asbestos Claims and ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claims and litigate to judgment, settle or withdraw such objections and each Asbestos Personal Injury Claim, Unknown Asbestos Claim and ABI Asbestos Personal Injury Indemnity Claim, whether or not a Proof of Claim was filed with the Bankruptcy Court, will be satisfied exclusively in accordance with the Plan Trust Documents. (3) No Distributions Pending Allowance Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, if a Claim or any portion of a Claim is Disputed, no payment or distribution will be made on account of the Disputed portion of such Claims (or the entire Claim, if the entire Claim is Disputed), unless and until such Disputed Claim becomes an Allowed Claim. 6.6. Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases (a) Assumption or Rejection of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases Except for any unexpired lease or executory contract that the Debtors reject or designate as being subject to rejection on or before the Effective Date, and except for the Joint Venture Agreement, as of the Effective Date, all executory contracts and unexpired leases not previously assumed by the Debtors pursuant to section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code will be deemed to have been assumed by the Debtors, subject to Section 5.2 of the Plan, and the Plan will constitute a motion to assume such executory contracts and unexpired leases. Subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date, entry of the Confirmation Order by the Bankruptcy Court will constitute approval of such assumptions pursuant to section 365(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and a finding by the Bankruptcy Court that each such assumption is in the best interests of the Debtors, the Estates and all parties in interest in the Reorganization Cases. 61 On the Effective Date, the Joint Venture Agreement and the Intercompany Agreements will be assumed by Reorganized Congoleum and the obligations of Reorganized Congoleum to ABI thereunder will be subject to the provisions set forth in the Plan. (b) Damages Upon Rejection The Bankruptcy Court will determine the dollar amount, if any, of the Claim of any Entity seeking damages by reason of the rejection of any executory contract or unexpired lease; provided, however, that such Entity must file a Proof of Claim with the Bankruptcy Court on or before thirty (30) calendar days following the later of the Confirmation Date or the date of rejection of the executory contract or unexpired lease. To the extent that any such Claim is Allowed by the Bankruptcy Court by Final Order, such Claim will become, and will be treated for all purposes under the Plan as, a Class 7 General Unsecured Claim, and the holder thereof will receive distributions as a holder of an Allowed Claim in such Class pursuant to the Plan. The Debtors will notify those Entities that may assert a Claim for damages from the rejection of an executory contract or unexpired lease of this bar date for filing a Proof of Claim in connection therewith. (c) Cure of Defaults Any defaults of the Debtors with respect to assumed executory contracts or leases existing as of the Effective Date will be cured in the ordinary course of the Reorganized Debtors' business promptly after any such default becomes known to the Debtors, unless otherwise determined by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to a Final Order, or agreed to by the parties to such contract or lease on or before the Effective Date. The Bankruptcy Court will resolve any disputes over cure amounts according to applicable law, and the assumed executory contracts or leases will be binding upon and enforceable upon the parties thereto, subject to any rights and defenses existing thereunder. Subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date, upon payment of such cure amounts, all of the Debtors' defaults existing as of the Confirmation Date with respect to any executory contract or unexpired lease to be assumed will be deemed cured. 6.7. Compensation and Benefits Programs Unless otherwise agreed to by the affected parties or modified by order of the Bankruptcy Court, all of the Debtors' obligations under employment and severance policies, and all compensation and benefit plan, policies, and programs shall be treated as though they are executory contracts that are deemed assumed under the Plan. As of the Effective Date, the Pension Plans will be deemed to have been assumed by Reorganized Congoleum. Reorganized Congoleum will continue the Pension Plans, satisfy the minimum funding standards pursuant to 26 U.S.C. ss. 412 and 29 U.S.C. ss. 1082, and administer the Pension Plans in accordance with their terms and the provisions of ERISA. Furthermore, nothing in the Plan will be construed as discharging, releasing or relieving the Debtors or any Reorganized Debtor, or any party, in any capacity, from any liability imposed under any law or regulatory provision with respect to the Pension Plans or the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC"). The PBGC and the Pension Plans will not be enjoined or precluded from enforcing such liability as a result of any provision of the Plan or the Confirmation Order. Notwithstanding anything in this Section, the Plan Trust will have no liability to any Entity with respect to the Pension Plans. 62 6.8. Injunctions, Releases and Discharge (a) Term of Certain Injunctions and Automatic Stay (A) All of the injunctions and/or automatic stays provided for in or in connection with the Reorganization Cases, whether pursuant to section 105, section 362, section 524(g), or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable law, in existence immediately prior to Confirmation will remain in full force and effect until the Injunctions become effective, and thereafter if so provided by the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or by their own terms. In addition, on and after Confirmation, the Debtors may seek such further orders as they may deem necessary to preserve the status quo during the time between Confirmation and the Effective Date. (B) Each of the Injunctions will become effective on the Effective Date and will continue in effect at all times thereafter. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Plan, all actions in the nature of those to be enjoined by the Injunctions will be enjoined during the period between the Confirmation Date and the Effective Date. (b) Setoffs Subject to the limitations provided in section 553 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Debtors or the Plan Trust, as applicable, may, but will not be required to, setoff against any Claim and the payments or other distributions to be made pursuant to the Plan in respect of such Claim, claims of any nature whatsoever the Debtors may have against the holder of such Claim, but neither the failure to do so nor the allowance of any Claim under the Plan will constitute a waiver or release by the Debtors of any such claim that the Debtors may have against such holder; provided that Reorganized Congoleum may not offset any obligations under the Promissory Note against any claim that Reorganized Congoleum may have against the Plan Trust. (c) Discharge (i) Except as specifically provided in the Plan, the Plan Documents or in the Confirmation Order, as of the Effective Date, Confirmation will discharge the Debtors and the Reorganized Debtors pursuant to section 1141(d)(1)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code from any and all Claims of any nature whatsoever and Demands including, without limitation, any Claims, demands and liabilities that arose before the Confirmation, and all debts of the kind specified in section 502(g), 502(h) or 502(i) of the Bankruptcy Code, whether or not (i) a Proof of Claim based on such Claim was filed or deemed filed under section 501 of the Bankruptcy Code, or such Claim was listed on the Schedules of the Debtors, (ii) such Claim is or was Allowed under section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (iii) the holder of such Claim has voted on or accepted the Plan. Except as specifically provided in the Plan or Plan Documents, the rights that are provided in the Plan as of the Effective Date will be in exchange for and in complete satisfaction, settlement and discharge of all Claims (including without limitation Asbestos Claims) or Demands against, Liens on, and interests in the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors or any of their assets or properties. 63 (ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, Confirmation will not discharge any pre-Petition Date or post-Petition Date, pre-Confirmation Date liability that may be due from any of the Debtors to the Internal Revenue Service as currently set forth in that certain Proof of Claim filed by the Internal Revenue Service in the alleged amounts of $6,608,626.01 and $8,760,686.95 and that certain Administrative Expense Claim in the alleged amount of $4,002,431.97. Should any pre-Petition Date or post-Petition Date, pre-Confirmation Date tax liabilities be determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be due from any of the Debtors for any of the tax periods reflected by such Proof of Claim or Administrative Expense Claim, such liabilities will be determined administratively or in a judicial forum in the manner in which such liabilities would have been resolved had these Reorganization Cases not been commenced. Any resulting liabilities determined pursuant to a Final Order or other final determination will be paid as if these Reorganization Cases had not been commenced. (d) Release of Representatives of the Debtors To the extent permitted by law applicable to cases under the Bankruptcy Code in the judicial district in which the Bankruptcy Court is located, except as otherwise specifically provided in the Plan and the Plan Documents, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is acknowledged in the Plan, all current and former Representatives of the Debtors, on and after the Effective Date, are released from any and all Claims, obligations, rights, suits, damages, causes of action, remedies and liabilities whatsoever, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, existing or hereafter arising, in law, equity or otherwise, that any Entity would have been legally entitled to assert in its own right (whether individually or collectively) or on behalf of the holder of any Claim or Interest or other Entity, based in whole or in part, upon any act or omission, transaction, agreement, event, or other occurrence taking place on or before the Effective Date, for claims or liabilities resulting from their services as officers or directors of the Debtors or, to the extent such claims or liabilities relate to the business, operations or management of the Debtors prior to the Effective Date or to their conduct as professionals or advisors to any of the Debtors. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event will any such Representative be released in the case of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Representative. (e) Exculpation To the extent permitted by law applicable to cases under the Bankruptcy Code in the judicial district in which the Bankruptcy Court is located, as of the Effective Date, each of the Reorganized Debtors, the Debtors, the Futures Representative, the Plan Trustee, the Claimants' Representative, the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Collateral Trustee, ABI or any of their respective Representatives (i) will not have or incur any liability to any Entity for any act or omission in connection with or arising out of the negotiation of the Plan or any Plan Document, negotiation of the settlement provided in the Collateral Trust, negotiation of the settlement provided in the Claimant Agreement, the pursuit of confirmation of the Plan, the consummation of the Plan, the Collateral Trust Agreement, the Claimant Agreement, the Security Agreement or the administration of the Plan or the property to be distributed under the Plan; and (ii) in all respects will be entitled to rely upon the advice of counsel with respect to their duties and responsibilities under the Plan and the other Plan Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event will any such party be exculpated from liability under this Section in the case of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such party. 64 (f) Indemnification of the Claimants' Representative and Collateral Trustee The Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors will indemnify and hold harmless each of the Claimants' Representative and the Collateral Trustee, to the extent that such Entity was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened or pending judicial, administrative or arbitrative action, suit or proceeding by reason of any act or omission of such Entity with respect to the negotiation and implementation of modifications to the Plan, the other Plan Documents and the Collateral Trust Agreement contemplated by the Fifth Modified Plan and/or the Sixth Modified Plan and made on or after April 1, 2005 to the fullest extent that a trust or a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware is from time to time entitled to indemnify and defend its officers, directors, trustees and employees, against any and all liabilities, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses), claims, damages or losses incurred by each such Entity in connection with or resulting from such action, suit or proceeding. To the extent that the Claimants' Representative or the Collateral Trustee seek indemnification under Section 3.4(c) of the Plan Trust Agreement, the Reorganized Debtors will be responsible to pay the first one million dollars ($1,000,000) of indemnifiable liabilities, expenses, claims, damages and losses sought under such Section 3.4(c). Thereafter, the Reorganized Debtors and the Plan Trust will each be responsible, severally and not jointly, to pay on a pari passu basis one half of the liabilities, expenses, claims, damages and losses indemnifiable under such Section 3.4(c), provided that the Reorganized Debtors' maximum obligation under such Section 3.4(c) will in no event exceed the aggregate sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000). If the Claimants' Representative or Collateral Trustee seeks indemnification under such Section 3.4(c) (each, an "Indemnified Party"), such Indemnified Party will give the Reorganized Debtors and the Plan Trust prompt written notice of the basis upon which such Indemnified Party seeks indemnification under such Section 3.4(c) (an "Indemnification Claim Notice"). In no event will the Plan Trust or the Reorganized Debtors be liable for any liabilities, expenses, claims, damages or losses that result from a delay in providing the Indemnification Claim Notice. Each Indemnification Claim Notice will contain a description of the action, suit or proceeding related to the claim for indemnification and each Indemnified Party will furnish promptly to the Plan Trust and the Reorganized Debtors copies of all papers and official documents received by it in respect thereof. At their option, the Reorganized Debtors may assume the defense of any action, suit or proceeding upon which the Indemnified Parties intend to base a request for indemnification by giving written notice to such Indemnified Party within fourteen (14) days after the Reorganized Debtors' receipt of an Indemnification Claim Notice. The assumption of the defense of such action, suit or proceeding will not be construed as an acknowledgement that the Reorganized Debtors or the Plan Trust are liable to indemnify any Indemnified Party in respect thereof, nor will it constitute a waiver by the Reorganized Debtors or the Plan Trust of any defense any of them may assert against any Indemnified Party's claim for indemnification. In the event that it is ultimately determined that the Reorganized Debtors and/or the Plan Trust are not obligated to indemnify, defend or hold harmless any Indemnified Party in respect of any action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification is sought under such Section 3.4(c), such Indemnified Party will reimburse the Reorganized Debtors for any and all costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees and costs) incurred by the Reorganized Debtors in defense of such action, suit or proceeding. Regardless of whether the Reorganized Debtors choose to defend or prosecute any such action, suit or proceeding, no Indemnified Party will admit any liability with respect to, or settle, compromise or discharge, any such action, suit or proceeding without the prior 65 written consent of the Reorganized Debtors and the Plan Trust, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. The Reorganized Debtors and the Plan Trust will not be liable for any settlement or disposition of a claim by any Indemnified Party that is reached without the prior written consent of the Reorganized Debtors and the Plan Trust. If the Reorganized Debtors choose to defend or prosecute any action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification will be requested, (i) the Indemnified Parties will reasonably cooperate in the defense or prosecution thereof and (ii) the Reorganized Debtors will keep the Plan Trust reasonably informed of the status of, and issues in, the action, suit or proceeding and will consult with the Plan Trust in connection with the defense or prosecution thereof (subject to any applicable privileges). In addition, if the Reorganized Debtors choose to defend or prosecute any action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification will be requested, the Reorganized Debtors will not settle such action, suit or proceeding without the prior written consent of the Plan Trust, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. (g) Releases by Holders of Claims To the extent permitted by law applicable to cases under the Bankruptcy Code in the judicial district in which the Bankruptcy Court is located, other than rights to the treatment provided in Article IV of the Plan or as otherwise provided in the Plan or the Plan Documents, on and after the Effective Date, each holder of a Claim who has accepted the Plan will be deemed to have unconditionally released the Released Non-Debtor Parties, the Claimants' Representative, the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee and their current and former Representatives from any and all Claims, obligations, rights, suits, damages, causes of action, remedies, and liabilities whatsoever, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, existing or hereafter arising, in law, equity, or otherwise, that such Entity would have been legally entitled to assert (whether individually or collectively), based in whole or in part upon any act or omission, transaction, agreement, event, or other occurrence taking place on or before the Effective Date by the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, the Reorganization Cases, or the negotiation, formulation, and preparation of the Plan, the Plan Documents or any related agreements, instruments or other documents. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event will any such party be released under this Section in the case of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such party. (h) Discharge Injunction Except as specifically provided in the Plan Documents to the contrary, the satisfaction, release, and discharge set forth in Section 11.1 of the Plan will also operate as an injunction, pursuant to sections 105, 524(g) and 1141 of the Bankruptcy Code, prohibiting and enjoining the commencement or continuation of any action, the employment of process or any act to collect, recover from, or offset (i) any Claim or Demand against or Interest in the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, the Collateral Trust, or the Plan Trust by any Entity and (ii) any cause of action, whether known or unknown, against the Released Parties based on such Claim or Interest described in subpart (i) of this Section (h). (i) Asbestos Channeling Injunction The sole recourse of the holder of a Plan Trust Asbestos Claim or Demand on account of such Claim or Demand or of a Person that had or could have asserted an Asbestos Claim or Demand will be to the Plan Trust pursuant to the provisions of the Asbestos Channeling Injunction, the Plan, the Plan Trust 66 Agreement and the TDP, and such holder will have no right whatsoever at any time to assert its Plan Trust Asbestos Claim or Demand against the Debtors, Reorganized Debtors, any other Protected Party, or any property or interest in property of the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or any other Protected Party. Without limiting the foregoing, from and after the Effective Date, the Asbestos Channeling Injunction will apply to all present and future holders of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Demands, and all such holders will be permanently and forever stayed, restrained, and enjoined from taking any of the following actions for the purpose of, directly or indirectly, collecting, recovering, or receiving payment of, on, or with respect to any Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Demands, other than from the Plan Trust in accordance with the Asbestos Channeling Injunction and pursuant to the Plan, the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP: (i) commencing, conducting, or continuing in any manner, directly or indirectly, any suit, action, or other proceeding (including a judicial, arbitration, administrative, or other proceeding) in any forum against or affecting any Protected Party or any property or interests in property of any Protected Party; (ii) enforcing, levying, attaching (including any prejudgment attachment), collecting, or otherwise recovering by any means or in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, any judgment, award, decree, or other order against any Protected Party or any property or interests in property of any Protected Party; (iii) creating, perfecting, or otherwise enforcing in any manner, directly or indirectly, any encumbrance against any Protected Party, or any property or interests in property of any Protected Party; (iv) setting off, seeking reimbursement of, contribution from, or subrogation against, or otherwise recouping in any manner, directly or indirectly, any amount against any liability owed to any Protected Party or any property or interests in property of any Protected Party; and (v) proceeding in any manner in any place with regard to any matter that is subject to resolution pursuant to the Plan Trust, except in conformity and compliance with the Plan, the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP. Any right, claim or cause of action that an Asbestos Insurance Company may have been entitled to assert against a Settling Asbestos Insurance Company based on or relating to Asbestos Claims shall be channeled to and become a right, claim or cause of action as an offset claim against the Plan Trust and not against the Settling Asbestos Insurance Company in question and all persons, including any Asbestos Insurance Company, shall be enjoined from asserting any such right, claim or cause of action against a Settling Asbestos Insurance Company. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, nothing contained in the Plan will constitute or be deemed a waiver of any claim, right or cause of action that the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or the Plan Trust may have against any Entity in connection with or arising out of or related to an Asbestos Claim. Notwithstanding any other provision in the Plan to the 67 contrary, nothing in the Plan shall be understood to channel, prevent, impair or limit in any way enforcement against the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or any other Protected Party of any rights provided in connection with any Workers' Compensation Claim. (j) Reservation of Rights Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the satisfaction, release and discharge, and the Injunctions set forth in Article XI of the Plan, will not serve to satisfy, discharge, release, or enjoin (i) claims by the Plan Trust, the Reorganized Debtors, ABI, and their Affiliates, or any other Entity, as the case may be, against (A) the Plan Trust for payment of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims in accordance with the Plan, the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP, as applicable, (B) the Plan Trust for the payment of Plan Trust Expenses, or (C) the Reorganized Debtors, the Plan Trust, or any other Entity, to enforce the provisions of the Plan or another Plan Document, or (ii) the rights of any Asbestos Insurance Company to assert any claim, debt, obligation, cause of action or liability for payment against any other Asbestos Insurance Company that is not a Settling Asbestos Insurance Company. (k) Rights Against Non-Debtors under Securities Laws Notwithstanding any language to the contrary contained in the Disclosure Statement, the Plan, and/or the Confirmation Order, no provision will release any non-Debtor, including any current and/or former officer and/or director of the Debtors and/or any non-Debtor included in the Released Non-Debtor Parties, from liability to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with any legal action or claim brought by such governmental unit against such Person(s). (l) Rights Against Debtors under Environmental Laws Environmental rights and Claims of Governmental Units under applicable Environmental Laws will survive the Reorganization Cases, will not be discharged, impaired or adversely affected by the Plan and the Reorganization Cases and will be determined in the manner and by the administrative or judicial tribunals in which such rights or Claims would have been resolved or adjudicated if the Reorganization Cases had not been commenced. Governmental Units need not file any Proofs of Claim under Environmental Laws in the Reorganization Cases in order to preserve Claims under Environmental Laws. Nothing in the Confirmation Order or Plan will be construed as releasing or relieving any Entity of any liability under any Environmental Law. (m) Disallowed Claims and Disallowed Interests On and after the Effective Date, the Debtors will be fully and finally discharged from any liability or obligation on a Disallowed Claim or a Disallowed Interest, and any order creating a Disallowed Claim or a Disallowed Interest that is not a Final Order as of the Effective Date solely because of an Entity's right to move for reconsideration of such order pursuant to section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code or Bankruptcy Rule 3008 will nevertheless become and be deemed to be a Final Order on the Effective Date. The Confirmation Order, except as otherwise provided in the Plan or ordered by the Bankruptcy Court, will constitute an order: (i) disallowing all Claims (other than Plan Trust Asbestos Claims that have not been previously expunged by Final Order of the Bankruptcy 68 Court or withdrawn) and Interests to the extent such Claims and Interests are not allowable under any provision of section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, including, but not limited to, time-barred Claims, and Claims for unmatured interest, and (ii) disallowing or subordinating, as the case may be, any Claims, or portions of Claims, for penalties or Non-Compensatory Damages. (n) No Liability for Solicitation or Participation Pursuant to section 1125(e) of the Bankruptcy Code, the Confirmation Order will provide that all of the Persons who have solicited acceptances or rejections of the Plan (including the Debtors and all of their respective officers, directors, shareholders, attorneys, agents, advisers and employees, all of the other Released Parties and the Voting Agent) have acted in good faith and in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, and are not liable on account of such solicitation or participation, for violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation governing the solicitation of acceptances or rejections of the Plan or the offer, issuance, sale or purchase of securities. 6.9. Matters Incident to Plan Confirmation (a) No Successor Liability Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, ABI, their Affiliates, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee and the Futures Representative do not, pursuant to the Plan or otherwise, assume, agree to perform, pay, or indemnify creditors or otherwise have any responsibilities for any liabilities or obligations of the Debtors relating to or arising out of the operations of or assets of the Debtors, whether arising prior to, on, or after the Confirmation Date. Neither the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, ABI, their Affiliates, nor the Plan Trust is, or will be, a successor to the Debtors by reason of any theory of law or equity, and none will have any successor or transferee liability of any kind or character, except that the Reorganized Debtors and the Plan Trust will assume the obligations specified in the Plan and the Confirmation Order. (b) Revesting of Assets Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, on the Effective Date, each Reorganized Debtor will be vested with all of the assets and property of its former Estate, free and clear of all Claims, Liens, charges and other interests of holders of Claims or Interests, and may operate its business free of any restrictions imposed by the Bankruptcy Code or by the Bankruptcy Court. (c) Vesting and Enforcement of Causes of Action Pursuant to section 1123(b)(3)(B) of the Bankruptcy Code, except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Reorganized Debtors will be vested with and have the right to enforce against any Entity any and all of the Debtors' Causes of Action other than Causes of Action related to Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Plan Trust Assets (including the right to pursue such claims, if any, in the name of any Debtor if necessary), with the proceeds of the recovery of any such actions to be property of the Reorganized Debtors; provided, however, that nothing herein will alter, amend, or modify the injunctions (including the Injunctions), releases, or discharges provided in the Plan. Pursuant to section 69 1123(b)(3)(B) of the Bankruptcy Code, except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Plan Trust will be vested with and have the right to enforce against any Entity any and all of the Debtors' Causes of Action relating to any Plan Trust Asbestos Claims or any Plan Trust Assets, including, without limitation, the right to void any Asbestos Claim of a Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant or of a Qualified Participating Claimant whether because of failure to comply with the requirements of any applicable settlement agreement (including the Claimant Agreement) or because such Claim was not submitted in good faith or otherwise and including the right to pursue such claims, if any, in the name of any Debtor, if necessary; and for this purpose the Plan Trust will be designated as a representative of the Estates, with the proceeds of the recovery of any such actions to be property of the Plan Trust; provided, however, that nothing herein will alter, amend, or modify the injunctions (including the Injunctions), releases, or discharges provided in the Plan. (d) Bankruptcy Causes of Action On the Effective Date, the Debtors will assign to the Plan Trust all Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action; provided, however, that, except with respect to any Plan Trust Disputed Claim, any Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action arising from any transfer of assets or property to the Collateral Trust prior to the Petition Date or from any subsequent distribution by the Collateral Trust of such assets or property will not be assigned to the Plan Trust and will be unconditionally released by the Debtors and their Estates in accordance with Sections 11.3 and 11.4 of the Plan. All such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Causes of Action will constitute part of the Plan Trust Assets, and will be transferred to and vested in the Plan Trust as of the Effective Date, free and clear of all Claims, Liens and encumbrances of every nature. The Plan Trust will be deemed the appointed representative of the Debtors' estates to, and may, enforce, pursue, litigate, abandon, compromise and settle any such Plan Trust Bankruptcy Cause of Action, as it deems appropriate. All Bankruptcy Causes of Action will be preserved for enforcement solely by the Reorganized Debtors; provided, however, that the Debtors shall not retain any such Bankruptcy Causes of Action against any parties indemnified by the Plan Trust pursuant to Section 3.4 of the Plan Trust Agreement. (e) Preservation of Insurance Claims The discharge and release of the Debtors and the Released Non-Debtor Parties from all Claims as provided in the Plan and the injunctive protection provided to the Debtors, Reorganized Debtors, Released Non-Debtor Parties and Released Parties with respect to Demands, as provided in the Plan, will neither diminish nor impair the enforceability of any of the Asbestos Insurance Policies by any Entity. 6.10. Retention of Jurisdiction (a) Jurisdiction Until the Reorganization Cases are closed, the Bankruptcy Court will retain the fullest and most extensive jurisdiction permissible, including that necessary to ensure that the purposes and intent of the Plan are carried out. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Bankruptcy Court will retain jurisdiction to hear and determine all Claims against and Interests in the Debtors, and to adjudicate and enforce all other causes of action which may exist on behalf of the Debtors. Nothing contained in the Plan will prevent the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, the Collateral Trust or the Plan Trust from 70 taking such action as may be necessary in the enforcement of any cause of action which any Debtor has or may have and which may not have been enforced or prosecuted by such Debtor, which cause of action will survive Confirmation of the Plan and will not be affected thereby except as specifically provided in the Plan. (b) General Retention Following the Confirmation of the Plan, the administration of the Reorganization Cases will continue at least until the completion of the transfers contemplated to be accomplished on the Effective Date. Moreover, the Plan Trust will be subject to the continuing jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court in accordance with the requirements of section 468B of the IRC and the regulations issued pursuant thereto. The Bankruptcy Court will also retain jurisdiction for the purpose of classification of any Claim and the re-examination of Claims that have been Allowed for purposes of voting, and the determination of such objections as may be filed with the Bankruptcy Court with respect to any Claim. The failure by the Debtors to object to, or examine, any Claim for the purposes of voting, will not be deemed a waiver of the right of the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or the Plan Trust, as the case may be, to object to or re-examine such Claim in whole or in part. (c) Specific Purposes In addition to the foregoing, the Bankruptcy Court will retain exclusive jurisdiction for the following specific purposes after the Confirmation Date: o to modify the Plan after Confirmation, pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and the Bankruptcy Rules; o to correct any defect, cure any omission, reconcile any inconsistency, or make any other necessary changes or modifications in or to the Plan, the Plan Documents or the Confirmation Order as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of the Plan, including the adjustment of the date(s) of performance under the Plan Documents in the event that the Effective Date does not occur as provided in the Plan so that the intended effect of the Plan may be substantially realized thereby; o to assure the performance by the Disbursing Agent and the Plan Trustee of their respective obligations to make distributions under the Plan; o to enforce and interpret the terms and conditions of the Plan Documents; o to enter such orders or judgments, including, but not limited to, injunctions (i) as are necessary to enforce the title, rights, and powers of the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, the Plan Trust, ABI, the Futures Representative and the Trust Advisory Committee, or (ii) as are necessary to enable holders of Claims to pursue their rights against any Entity that may be liable therefor pursuant to applicable law or otherwise, including, but not limited to, Bankruptcy Court orders; o to hear and determine any motions or contested matters involving taxes, tax refunds, tax attributes, tax benefits, tax proceedings and similar or related matters with respect to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, or the Plan Trust relating to tax periods or portions thereof ending on or 71 before the Effective Date, arising on account of transactions contemplated by the Plan Documents, or relating to the period of administration of the Reorganization Cases; o to hear and determine all applications for compensation of professionals and reimbursement of expenses under sections 330, 331, or 503(b) of the Bankruptcy Code; o to hear and determine any causes of action arising during the period from the Petition Date through the Effective Date; o to hear and determine any claim, cause of action, dispute or other matter in any way related to the Plan Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby, against the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, ABI, the ABI Parties, the Trust Advisory Committee, the Plan Trust, the Collateral Trust, the Plan Trustee, the Collateral Trustee or the Futures Representative and each of their respective Representatives; o to hear and determine any and all motions pending as of Confirmation for the rejection, assumption, or assignment of executory contracts or unexpired leases and the allowance of any Claim resulting therefrom; o to hear and determine such other matters and for such other purposes as may be provided in the Confirmation Order; o to consider and act on the compromise and settlement of any Claim against or Interest in the Debtors or their Estates; o to hear and determine all questions and disputes regarding title to the assets of the Debtors, their Estates, the Reorganized Debtors or the Plan Trust; o to hear and determine any other matters related to the Plan, including the implementation and enforcement of all orders entered by the Bankruptcy Court in the Reorganization Cases; o to retain continuing jurisdiction with regard to the Plan Trust sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Treasury Regulations promulgated under section 468B of the IRC (including Treas. Reg. Section 1.468B-1(c)(1)); o to hear and determine any and all applications brought by the Plan Trustee to amend, modify, alter, waive, or repeal any provision of the Plan Trust Agreement or the TDP; and o to enter such orders as are necessary to implement and enforce the Injunctions and the other injunctions described in the Plan, including, without limitation, orders extending the protections afforded by section 524(g)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code to the Protected Parties, including without limitation, ABI, the ABI Parties and the Settling Asbestos Insurance Companies. 72 6.11. Miscellaneous Provisions (a) Substantial Contribution Claims Any Entity who requests compensation or expense reimbursement for making a substantial contribution in the Reorganization Cases pursuant to sections 503(b)(3), (4) and (5) of the Bankruptcy Code ("Substantial Contribution Claim") must file an application with the clerk of the Bankruptcy Court on or before a date that is sixty (60) days subsequent to the Confirmation Date and serve such application on counsel for the Debtors, counsel for the Futures Representative and counsel for the Asbestos Claimants' Committee and on all other parties as otherwise required by the Bankruptcy Court and the Bankruptcy Code, or be forever barred from seeking such compensation or expense reimbursement. All Allowed Substantial Contribution Claims will be paid by the Reorganized Debtors within sixty (60) days of allowance by the Bankruptcy Court. The Debtors will not object to a Substantial Contribution Claim made on behalf of certain holders of Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims represented by Robert G. Taylor II, Esquire (the "Taylor Claimants"); provided, however, that (i) any such Substantial Contribution Claim does not exceed $350,000 and is determined to be reasonable by the Bankruptcy Court; and (ii) the Taylor Claimants and their counsel make all reasonable efforts to achieve Confirmation of the Fourth Modified Plan by June 1, 2005 and such Confirmation is supported by at least 75% of the Taylor Claimants. The Taylor Claimants have confirmed that they will continue their support for the Fifth Modified Plan, and, thus, the Debtors will not object to the aforementioned Substantial Contribution Claim. (b) Exemption From Transfer Taxes The issuance, transfer, or exchange of any of the securities issued under, or the transfer of any other assets or property pursuant to or in connection with the Plan or the making or delivery of an instrument of transfer under or in connection with the Plan will not, pursuant to section 1146 of the Bankruptcy Code, be taxed under any law imposing a stamp tax, transfer tax or other similar tax. (c) Effectuating Documents and Further Transactions The Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer or any Vice President of any Debtor will be authorized to execute, deliver, file or record such contracts, instruments, releases, indentures, and other agreements or documents and take or direct such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and further evidence the terms and conditions of the Plan. The Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of any Debtor will be authorized to certify or attest to any of the foregoing actions. (d) The Asbestos Claimants' Committee and the Futures Representative The Asbestos Claimants' Committee will continue in existence until the Effective Date, with the Debtors to pay the reasonable fees and expenses of the Asbestos Claimants' Committee and the Futures Representative through that date as well, in accordance with any fee and expense procedures promulgated during the Reorganization Cases. After the Effective Date, the Futures 73 Representative will (i) continue in existence and the rights, duties and responsibilities of the Futures Representative will be as set forth in the Plan Trust Documents and (ii) have the right to prosecute and/or object to applications for Professional Fee Claims. The Representatives retained by the Futures Representative during the Reorganization Cases will, as of the Effective Date, be released and discharged of and from all further authority, duties, responsibilities, and obligations related to or arising from, the Reorganization Cases. On the Effective Date, any other committee that may have been appointed in the Reorganization Cases (other than the TAC) will be dissolved except for the purposes of: (i) prosecuting any appeal or request for reconsideration or stay pending appeal of the Confirmation Order; (ii) pending adversary proceedings; and (iii) prosecuting applications for compensation for the professionals retained by such committee, and the members, attorneys, accountants, and other professionals thereof will be released and discharged of and from all further authority, duties, responsibilities, liabilities, and obligations related to, or arising from, the Reorganization Cases. On the Effective Date, the Trust Advisory Committee will assume those powers, duties, and responsibilities as provided in the Plan Trust Agreement. (e) Modification of the Plan The Debtors, with the written consent of ABI and the Futures Representative, may propose amendments to or modifications of any of the Plan Documents under section 1127 of the Bankruptcy Code at any time prior to the Confirmation Date. After Confirmation, the Debtors, with the written consent of the Futures Representative, the Plan Trustee and ABI, may remedy any defects or omissions or reconcile any inconsistencies in the Plan or the Confirmation Order or any other order entered for the purpose of implementing the Plan in such manner as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of the Plan. Anything in the Plan or in any Plan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, following Confirmation, but prior to the Effective Date, the Plan will not be modified, supplemented, changed or amended in any material respect except with the consent of ABI (to the extent that any such modification, supplementation, change, or amendment impairs or affects the rights of ABI or the Affiliates under the Plan), the Futures Representative, and the Debtors. Unless otherwise provided in the Confirmation Order or other order of a court of competent jurisdiction in the event of a conflict between the terms or provisions of the Plan and the Plan Trust Documents, the terms of the Plan will control. (f) Revocation and Withdrawal of the Plan The Debtors reserve the right to revoke and withdraw the Plan before the entry of the Confirmation Order. If the Debtors revoke or withdraw the Plan, or if Confirmation does not occur, then, with respect to all parties in interest, the Plan will be deemed null and void and nothing contained therein will be deemed to constitute a waiver or release of any Claims by or against the Debtors or any other Entity or to prejudice in any manner the rights of the Debtors or such Entity in any further proceedings involving the Debtors. (g) No Admission Nothing contained in the Plan or in this Disclosure Statement will be deemed as an admission by the Debtors, with respect to any matter set forth therein or herein, including, without limitation, liability on any Claim or the propriety of any Claims classification. 74 (h) Governing Law Except to the extent that federal law (including, but not limited to, the Bankruptcy Code and the Bankruptcy Rules) is applicable or where the Plan provides otherwise, the rights and obligations arising under the Plan will be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law thereof which would require the application of any other law. (i) Modification of Payment Terms The Reorganized Debtors reserve the right to modify the treatment of any Allowed Claim (other than a Plan Trust Asbestos Claim), as provided in section 1123(a)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code, at any time after the Effective Date upon the consent of the holder of such Allowed Claim, and solely with respect to any Allowed ABI Claim, with the additional consent of the Futures Representative and the Plan Trustee. (j) Claimants' Representative Fee Claims To the extent that the actual costs incurred in connection with Confirmation of the Plan by the Claimants' Representative exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000) in the aggregate, the Debtors or, after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtors will provide funding to cover such actual costs, subject to disclosure of the costs incurred and approval by the Bankruptcy Court. Any request for payment of such actual costs incurred by Claimants' Representative must be filed and served on the Reorganized Debtors and their counsel no later than 60 days after the Effective Date, unless otherwise ordered by the Bankruptcy Court. Objections to any application of the Claimants' Representative for compensation or reimbursement of expenses must be filed and served on the Claimants' Representative and its counsel, if any, no later than the first Business Day following 30 days (or such other period as may be allowed by order of the Bankruptcy Court) after the date on which the applicable application for compensation or reimbursement was received. ARTICLE 7 CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN 7.1. Acceptance or Rejection of the Plan (a) Persons Entitled to Vote on the Plan Pursuant to section 1126 of the Bankruptcy Code, only Classes of Claims and Interests that are impaired under the terms and provisions of the Plan are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Generally speaking, under section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code, a class of claims or interests is "impaired" under a plan of reorganization unless, with respect to each claim or interest in such class, the plan in question (1) leaves unaltered the legal, equitable and contractual rights to which such claim or interest entitles the holder of such claim or interest; or (2) notwithstanding any contractual provision or applicable law that entitles the holder of such claim or interest to demand or receive accelerated payment of such claim or interest after the occurrence of a default (A) cures any such default that occurred before or after the commencement of the case under the Bankruptcy Code, other than a default of the kind specified in section 365(b)(2) thereof; (B) reinstates the maturity of such claim or interest as such maturity existed before such default; (C) compensates the holder of such claim or interest for any damages incurred as a 75 result of any reasonable reliance by such holder on such contractual provision or such applicable law; and (D) does not otherwise alter the legal, equitable, or contractual rights to which such claim or interest entitles the holder of such claim or interest. Under the Plan, Classes 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14 and 15 are Unimpaired; therefore, the holders of Claims and Interests in such Classes are conclusively presumed to have accepted the Plan pursuant to section 1126(f) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Company will not solicit acceptances of the Plan from holders of Claims and Interests in these Classes. Classes 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are Impaired; therefore, the holders of Claims and Interests in Classes 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. Since the Plan's treatment of Asbestos Property Damage Claims is identical to the treatment set forth in the Fourth Modified Plan, holders of Asbestos Property Damage Claims are not being resolicited with respect to the Plan. Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code permits supplementary injunctions to be issued which channel all Asbestos Claims to a trust if, among other things, 75% of those claimants voting in the Class or Classes of claimants whose Claims are to be addressed by the trust vote for the plan. Because the Claims in Classes 2, 3, 10, 11 and 12 are to be channeled into the Plan Trust, the Company is soliciting acceptances of the Plan for purposes of section 524(g) from these Classes. (b) Voting Instructions (1) Ballots Holders of Claims in Classes 9 and 13 will be sent individual ballots only. With respect to the Asbestos Claimants in Classes 2, 3, 10 and 11, the Company will provide either individual ballots or master ballots; provided, however, master ballots will only be sent to counsel who (i) represent one or more Asbestos Claimants, (ii) have the requisite authority to vote on behalf of such Asbestos Claimants, (iii) have obtained an order from the Bankruptcy Court approving their 2019 statement by July 21, 2005, and (iv) have notified the Voting Agent of counsel's intent to use master ballots. If your counsel is not voting on your behalf, you must follow the procedures outlined below and on your individual ballot in order to properly complete your ballot. (i) Class 2, 3, 10 and 11 Ballots A separate form of ballot will be provided to Holders in Class 2 (Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants), Class 3 (Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants), Class 10 (Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims) and Class 11 (Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims, or their counsel, respectively. (A) Indicate on the ballot, by checking the appropriate box, whether you are voting to accept or reject the Plan. If your ballot does not indicate either an acceptance or a rejection of the Plan or if it indicates both an acceptance and a rejection, it will not be counted. 76 (B) For the holders of claims in Classes 2, 3 and 11, indicate on the ballot, by filling in the appropriate blank, the dollar amount of your claim. This dollar amount should be the amount you have agreed to in the Claimant Agreement or Pre-Petition Settlement Agreement, as applicable. (C) For the holders of Claims in Class 10, you must indicate your disease level by marking an "X" in the box that corresponds to your choice. The amount of your claim will be based on your disease level, and this amount will be for voting purposes only and will not be binding for any other purpose. (D) Sign and date your ballot, and return it to the Voting Agent so that it is actually received by the Voting Agent by 5:00 p.m., Prevailing Eastern Time, on September 19, 2005, unless otherwise extended by the Bankruptcy Court. (E) By signing and dating your ballot, you will be certifying under penalty of perjury pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ss.1746 that: (1) You have been provided with a copy of the Disclosure Statement, Plan and the accompanying exhibits; (2) All of the information you have provided on your ballot or master ballot is true and correct; and (3) You have the full power and authority under applicable non-bankruptcy or bankruptcy law to vote to accept or reject the Plan as an Asbestos Claimant or counsel. If you are a holder of a Class 10 Claim, you must additionally certify under penalty of perjury that: (4) You have been exposed to an asbestos-containing product manufactured or distributed by Congoleum Corporation or with respect to which Congoleum has legal liability and that you have the disease level indicated on the ballot. (F) If you vote to accept the Plan, you consent to (i) the release and exculpation provisions set forth in Sections 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 of the Plan and (ii) if you are a holder of a Class 2 or 3 Claim, the Forbearance described in Section 4.1 of the Plan. (ii) Class 9, 12 and 13 Ballots Holders of Class 9 and 13 Claims, if any, shall receive a ballot for their respective class. (A) Indicate on the ballot, by checking the appropriate box, whether you are voting to accept or reject the Plan. If your ballot does not indicate either an acceptance or a rejection of the Plan or if it indicates both an acceptance and a rejection, it will not be counted. 77 (B) Indicate on the ballot, by filling in the appropriate blank, the amount of Claim or the number of shares you hold, as applicable. With respect to Class 9 and 13 Claims, this amount should be the amount of your claim or the number of shares that you hold, as applicable. The information you enter relating to the amount and basis of your Claim or Interest will be used solely for the purposes of identifying your Claim or Interest and may be used for calculating votes to accept or reject the Plan. Such information does not establish the amount of your Claim or Interest. (C) Sign and date your ballot, and return it to the Voting Agent so that it is actually received by the Voting Agent prior to 5:00 p.m., Prevailing Eastern Time, on September 19, 2005, unless otherwise extended by the Bankruptcy Court. (D) By signing and dating your ballot, you will be certifying under penalty of perjury pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ss.1746 that: (1) You have been provided with a copy of the Disclosure Statement, Plan and the accompanying exhibits; (2) All of the information you have provided on your ballot is true and correct; and (3) You have the full power and authority under applicable non-bankruptcy or bankruptcy law to vote to accept or reject the Plan on behalf of the Claimant listed on your ballot. (E) If you vote to accept the Plan, you consent to the release and exculpation provisions set forth in Sections 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 of the Plan. (2) Returning Ballots UNLESS YOU HAVE MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH YOUR COUNSEL TO AUTHORIZE SUCH COUNSEL TO VOTE DIRECTLY ON YOUR BEHALF, PLEASE USE THE BALLOT SENT TO YOU WITH THIS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT IN VOTING FOR OR AGAINST THE PLAN. YOU SHOULD COMPLETE AND SIGN THE BALLOT AND RETURN IT TO THE VOTING AGENT, AT THE APPROPRIATE ADDRESS SET FORTH IN THE VOTING INSTRUCTIONS WHICH ACCOMPANY THE ENCLOSED BALLOT, ON OR BEFORE 5:00 P.M., PREVAILING EASTERN TIME, ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2005, UNLESS OTHERWISE EXTENDED BY THE BANKRUPTCY COURT. ALL BALLOTS WILL BE TABULATED BY THE VOTING AGENT. IN ORDER TO BE COUNTED, BALLOTS MUST BE ACTUALLY RECEIVED BY THE VOTING AGENT ON OR BEFORE 5:00 P.M., PREVAILING EASTERN TIME, ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2005, UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED BY THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, AT THE APPROPRIATE ADDRESS SET FORTH IN THE VOTING INSTRUCTIONS WHICH ACCOMPANY THE ENCLOSED BALLOT. 78 (3) Incomplete or Irregular Ballots Ballots or master ballots that are not signed in accordance with the voting instructions will not be counted. Ballots or master ballots that are signed, but not expressly voted either for acceptance or rejection of the Plan, will not be counted. Ballots or master ballots that do not supply the information requested on the ballot or master ballot, as applicable, will not be counted. Ballots or master ballots that are not actually received by the Voting Agent by the Voting Deadline on September 19, 2005 at 5:00 p.m., Prevailing Eastern Time, will not be counted. Ballots or master ballots that are illegible or contain insufficient information (such as incomplete or missing social security numbers for Asbestos Claimants) to permit the identification of the Claimant will not be counted. Ballots or master ballots transmitted to the Voting Agent by facsimile or other electronic means will not be counted. Ballots or master ballots that are incomplete, including without limitation with respect to an Asbestos Claimant for whom counsel fails to make the required certifications, will not be counted. (4) Extension of the Solicitation Period The solicitation period for ballots with respect to the Plan will expire at 5:00 p.m., Prevailing Eastern Time, on September 19, 2005 unless otherwise ordered by the Bankruptcy Court. Except to the extent allowed by the Bankruptcy Court, ballots that are received after the Voting Deadline may not be accepted or used by the Company in connection with its request for Confirmation of the Plan or any modification thereof. (5) Ballot Retention The original ballots or master ballots will be maintained by the Voting Agent for a period of one year following the Effective Date, unless otherwise instructed by the Reorganized Debtors, in writing, or otherwise ordered by the Bankruptcy Court. (c) Class Acceptance Requirement Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code does not require that each holder of a Claim vote in favor of the Plan for it to be confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court. Instead, the Bankruptcy Code defines acceptance of the Plan by a Class of Claims as acceptance by holders of at least two-thirds in amount and more than one-half in number of the claims of that Class that have voted on the Plan, excluding any holders of Claims designated pursuant to section 1126(e) of the 79 Bankruptcy Code. Acceptance by a Class of Interests is defined as acceptance by holders of at least two-thirds in amount of the Allowed Interests of that Class held by holders of such Interests that have voted on the Plan, excluding any holders of Interests designated pursuant to section 1126(e) of the Bankruptcy Code. Section 1126(e) provides that a vote may be disregarded if the Bankruptcy Court determines, after notice and a hearing, that an Entity's acceptance or rejection of the plan was not in good faith, or was not solicited or procured in good faith, or in accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. (d) Acceptance Pursuant to Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code In accordance with section 524(g)(2)(B)(ii)(IV)(bb) of the Bankruptcy Code, a supplementary injunction may be issued if, among other things, 75% of those voting in the Class or Classes of claimants addressed by the trust vote in favor of the Plan. 7.2. Confirmation Hearing Section 1128(a) of the Bankruptcy Code requires the court, after notice, to hold a hearing on confirmation of a plan. Notice of the Confirmation Hearing will be provided to all creditors and equity holders or their representatives. The Confirmation Hearing may be adjourned from time to time by the Bankruptcy Court without further notice except for an announcement of the adjourned date made at the Confirmation Hearing or any subsequent adjourned Confirmation Hearing. Section 1128(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that any party in interest may object to confirmation of a plan. Any objection to confirmation of the Plan must be in writing, must conform to the Bankruptcy Rules, must set forth the name of the objecting party, the nature and amount of Claims or Interests held or asserted by the objectant against the Debtor or property, the basis for the objection and the specific grounds therefor, and must be filed with the Bankruptcy Court by the date and time set forth in the notice of the Confirmation Hearing, and served upon the parties and their counsel, so as to be received no later than the date and time for service of the objections, all as designated in the notice of the Confirmation Hearing. 7.3. Requirements for Confirmation (a) Consensual Confirmation Under Section 1129(a) of the Bankruptcy Code At the Confirmation Hearing, the Bankruptcy Court will determine whether the requirements of section 1129(a) of the Bankruptcy Code have been satisfied, in which event the Bankruptcy Court will enter the Confirmation Order. Such requirements include, among others: (i) That the Plan complies with applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. (ii) That the Debtors have complied with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. (iii) That the Plan has been proposed in good faith and not by any means forbidden by law. 80 (iv) That any payment made or promised by the Debtors to any Entity for services, costs or expenses in or in connection with the Reorganization Cases or the Plan has been approved by or is subject to approval by the Bankruptcy Court as reasonable. (v) That the Debtors have disclosed the identity and affiliations of any individual proposed to serve as a director or an officer of the Reorganized Debtors after confirmation of the Plan and that the appointment to, or continuance in, such office by such individual is consistent with the interests of holders of Claims and Interests and with public policy. (vi) That the Plan is in the best interests of the holders of Claims and Interests; that is, each holder of an Allowed Claim or Allowed Interest either has accepted the Plan or will receive or retain on account of its Claim or Equity Interest property with a value, as of the Effective Date, that is not less than the amount that the holder would receive or retain if the Debtors were liquidated under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code on the Effective Date. (vii) Each Class of Claims or Interests has either accepted the Plan or is not impaired under the Plan; provided, however, that if such requirement is not met, the Plan may be confirmed pursuant to section 1129(b) of the Bankruptcy Code. (viii) Except to the extent that the holder of a particular Claim has agreed to a different treatment of such Claim, the Plan provides that Allowed Administrative Expense Claims and Allowed Priority Claims will be paid in full on the Effective Date and that Allowed Priority Tax Claims will be either paid in full on the Effective Date or will receive on account of such Claims deferred cash payments, over a period not exceeding six years after the date of assessment of such Claims, of a value, as of the Effective Date, equal to the Allowed Amount of such Claims. (ix) At least one impaired Class of Claims has accepted the Plan, without regard to the votes of any insiders. (x) That the Plan is feasible; that is, confirmation is not likely to be followed by the need for liquidation or further reorganization of the Reorganized Debtors. (xi) All fees comparable to the fees payable under section 1930 of title 28 of the U.S. Code, if and to the extent due, have been paid on or prior to the Effective Date. (xii) The Plan provides for the continuation after the Effective Date of payment of all retiree benefits, as that term is defined in section 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code, without modification by the Plan, thereby complying with section 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Plan is the product of extensive arms-length negotiations and has been proposed in good faith. The Company believes that the Plan satisfies all applicable requirements of section 1129(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. A discussion of the reasons the Company believes the Plan satisfies certain of such requirements is set forth below and the satisfaction of the remaining requirements of section 1129(a) of the Bankruptcy Code is, in the Company's belief, self-explanatory: 81 (1) Best Interests Test Under the best interests test, the Plan may be confirmed if, with respect to each Impaired Class of Claims or Interests, each holder of an Allowed Claim or Allowed Interest in such Class either (A) has accepted the Plan or (B) will receive or retain under the Plan, on account of its Claim or Interest, property of a value, as of the Effective Date, that is not less than the amount such holder would receive or retain if the Company were to be liquidated under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. To determine what the holders in each Class of Claims or Interests would receive if the Company were to be liquidated, the Bankruptcy Court must estimate the dollar amount that would be generated from the liquidation of the Company's assets and properties in the context of a Chapter 7 liquidation case. The cash amount that would be available for satisfaction of the Allowed Claims and Allowed Interests of the Company would consist of the proceeds resulting from the disposition of the assets of the Company, augmented by the cash held by the Company at the time of the commencement of a Chapter 7 case. Such cash amount would be reduced by the costs and expenses of the liquidation and by any additional Administrative Claims and Priority Claims that would result from the termination of the Company's business and the use of a Chapter 7 proceeding for the purposes of liquidation. See Exhibit B (Liquidation Analysis).(2) The Company believes that the timing of distributions under a Chapter 7 case would be delayed and the amount of distributions that would be made in a Chapter 7 case would be materially less than the distributions contemplated by the Plan. In addition, the ability of the trustee in a Chapter 7 case to negotiate settlements with insurance companies without the benefit of the section 524(g) injunctions is likely to be impaired, with the result that fewer settlements are likely to be achieved, and the terms of any such settlements are likely to be less favorable to Claimants than settlements achievable in the Reorganization Cases. Furthermore, unlike the Plan Trust in the Reorganization Cases, a Chapter 7 trustee would not receive the benefits of the Promissory Note and the ABI Contribution. The Company therefore believes that the Plan is in the best interests of all holders of Claims and Interests. (2) Feasibility of the Plan In order for the Plan to be confirmed, the Bankruptcy Court also must determine that the Plan is feasible -- that is, that the need for further reorganization or a subsequent liquidation of the Company is not likely to result following confirmation of the Plan. In determining whether a plan of reorganization is feasible, a court will consider (A) the adequacy of the proposed capital structure of the reorganized entity, (B) its earning power, (C) the overall economic conditions in which it will operate, (D) the capability of its management, (E) the continuity of its management and (F) any other factors the court deems relevant to the successful operation of the reorganized entity to perform the provisions of the plan of reorganization. The Reorganized Debtors will be discharged from Asbestos Claims and otherwise in general will be free of prepetition debt, other than indebtedness in respect of or under (1) the Lender Secured Claims, (2) Other Secured Claims ---------- (2) The attached Liquidation Analysis is without giving effect to rights on insurance policies. 82 and (3) Senior Note Claims, as well as ongoing business expenses and reorganization costs. Congoleum anticipates that the cash flow generated by its business and assets will be sufficient to pay its ongoing obligations under the Promissory Note, its other long-term debt and its business expenses. The Company, therefore, believes that the Plan is feasible. (3) Acceptance by an Impaired Class Because the Plan impairs several Classes of Claims (Classes 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13), section 1129(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Code requires that for the Plan to be confirmed, at least one Impaired Class of Claims must accept the Plan by the requisite vote. As more fully described in Section 7.1(c) - "Class Acceptance Requirement," an Impaired Class of Claims will have accepted the Plan if and only if at least two-thirds in amount and more than one-half in number of the Allowed Claims in such Class that vote have voted to accept the Plan. (b) Conditions to Confirmation Confirmation of the Plan will not occur unless each of the following conditions has been satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.3 of the Plan. These conditions to Confirmation, which are designed, among other things, to ensure that the Injunctions, releases, and discharges set forth in Article XI of the Plan will be effective, binding and enforceable, are as follows: (i) The Bankruptcy Court will have made specific findings and determinations, among others, in substantially the following form: (A) The Discharge Injunction and the Asbestos Channeling Injunction are to be implemented in connection with the Plan and the Plan Trust; (B) As of the Petition Date, Congoleum has been named as a defendant in personal injury, wrongful death or property damage actions seeking recovery for damages allegedly caused by the presence of, or exposure to, asbestos or asbestos-containing products; (C) The Plan Trust, upon the Effective Date, will assume the liabilities of the Debtors with respect to Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Demands; (D) The Plan Trust is to be funded in part by securities of Reorganized Congoleum in the form of the Promissory Note that is secured by, among other things, the Other Collateral, and the Pledged Stock (being securities of Reorganized Congoleum) pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and constitutes an obligation of Reorganized Congoleum to make future payments to the Plan Trust; (E) The Plan Trust, on the Effective Date, will hold as collateral for the Promissory Note, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, a majority of the voting shares of Congoleum, and if certain contingencies occur the Plan Trust will be entitled to foreclose its security interests in the Pledged Stock, and own such Pledged Stock if there are any defaults under the terms of the Promissory Note pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement; 83 (F) The Plan Trust is to use its assets and income to pay Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Plan Trust Expenses; (G) Congoleum is likely to be subject to substantial future Demands for payment arising out of the same or similar conduct or events that gave rise to the Plan Trust Asbestos Claims, which are addressed by the Asbestos Channeling Injunction; (H) The actual amounts, numbers and timing of future Demands cannot be determined; (I) Pursuit of Demands outside the procedures prescribed by the Plan and the TDP is likely to threaten the Plan's purpose to deal equitably with Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and future Demands; (J) The Plan establishes separate Classes of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims that are to be addressed by the Plan Trust and at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the Asbestos Claimants voting in such Classes have accepted the Plan; (K) Pursuant to court orders or otherwise, the Plan Trust will operate through mechanisms such as structured, periodic or supplemental payments, Pro Rata distributions, matrices or periodic review of estimates of the numbers and values of Asbestos Personal Injury Claims or other comparable mechanisms, that provide reasonable assurance that the Plan Trust will value, and be in a financial position to pay, Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and Demands therefor in substantially the same manner; (L) The Futures Representative was appointed by the Bankruptcy Court as part of the proceedings leading to the issuance of the Discharge Injunction and the Asbestos Channeling Injunction for the purpose of, among other things, protecting the rights of persons that might subsequently assert Demands of the kind that are addressed in the Discharge Injunction and the Asbestos Channeling Injunction and transferred to the Plan Trust; (M) In light of the benefits provided, or to be provided, to the Plan Trust on behalf of each Protected Party, the Asbestos Channeling Injunction is fair and equitable with respect to the persons that might subsequently assert Demands against any Protected Party; (N) The Plan otherwise complies with section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code; (O) All insurers affording insurance coverage that is the subject of the Asbestos Insurance Assignment have been given notice and an opportunity to be heard on matters relating to such assignment, and are bound by the Plan and the findings of facts and conclusions of law set forth in the Confirmation Order; (P) Congoleum's contribution to the Plan Trust and ABI's contribution of the ABI Contribution to the Plan Trust provided for in the Plan, together with the Asbestos Insurance Assignment, constitute substantial assets of the Plan Trust and the reorganization; 84 (Q) The duties and obligations of the insurers that issued policies and their successors and assigns, or, with respect to any insolvent insurers, their liquidators and/or the state insurance guaranty funds that bear responsibility with respect to such rights under such policies which constitute the Asbestos Insurance Rights and Asbestos Property Damage Insurance Rights are not eliminated or diminished by the transfer pursuant to the Plan of the Debtors' rights in the Asbestos Insurance Rights and Asbestos Property Damage Insurance Rights pursuant to the Insurance Assignment Agreement; (R) Amendments to the Collateral Trust Agreement, in the form set forth in Exhibit B to the Plan, will have been executed and delivered by Congoleum and the Collateral Trustee and consented to by the Claimants' Representative; (S) A forbearance agreement, in the form set forth in Exhibit I to the Plan, will have been executed and delivered on behalf of Congoleum and all of the Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants; and (T) At least 95% of the holders of Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants will have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof. (ii) The Bankruptcy Court will have made such findings and determinations regarding the Plan as will enable the entry of the Confirmation Order and any other order entered in conjunction therewith, each of which will be in form and substance acceptable to the Debtors, ABI and the Futures Representative and, insofar as such findings and determinations affect the Financing Order or the rights of Wachovia thereunder, Wachovia. (c) Conditions for Effective Date Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or the Confirmation Order, the Effective Date of the Plan will not occur unless and until each of the following conditions has been satisfied or, if applicable, waived: (1) Confirmation Order The Confirmation Order will have been entered by the Bankruptcy Court and affirmed by the District Court or entered by the District Court, and the Confirmation Order and any order of the District Court will be in form and substance acceptable to the Debtors, ABI, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, and the Futures Representative, and the Confirmation Order (and the affirming order of the District Court) will have become a Final Order; provided, however, that the Effective Date may occur at a point in time when the Confirmation Order is not a Final Order at the option of the Debtors, with the written consent of ABI, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, and the Futures Representative, unless the effectiveness of the Confirmation Order has been stayed, reversed or vacated. The Effective Date may occur, again at the option of the Debtors, with the written consent of the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Futures Representative and ABI, on the first Business Day immediately following the expiration or other termination of any stay of effectiveness of the Confirmation Order. 85 (2) Injunctions The Discharge Injunction and the Asbestos Channeling Injunction will be in full force and effect. (3) Amended Credit Agreement The Amended Credit Agreement and all documents to be executed in connection with the Amended Credit Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Debtors, will not restrict Reorganized Congoleum's obligations to make scheduled interest payments under the Promissory Note except as provided in the Promissory Note and will have been executed and delivered and all conditions precedent to effectiveness thereof will have been satisfied or waived by the parties thereto. (4) Plan Documents The Plan Documents necessary or appropriate to implement the Plan (which will include without limitation, the Promissory Note, the Plan Trust Documents, the Pledge Agreement and the Insurance Assignment Agreement) will have been executed, delivered and, where applicable, filed with the appropriate governmental authorities; all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of each of the Plan Documents will have been satisfied or waived by the respective parties thereto; and the Plan Documents will be in full force and effect. (5) Other Assurances The Debtors will have obtained either (i) a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service establishing that the Plan Trust is a "qualified settlement fund" pursuant to Section 468(B) of the IRC and the regulations issued pursuant thereto, or (ii) other decisions, opinions or assurances regarding certain tax consequences of the Plan, satisfactory to the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, the Futures Representative and the Asbestos Claimants' Committee. (6) Other Approvals, Documents and Actions All authorizations, consents and regulatory approvals required, if any, in connection with the consummation of the Plan will have been obtained, and all actions, documents, and agreements necessary to implement the Plan will have been effected or executed. (7) Judicial Fees All fees payable pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ss. 1930 if and to the extent assessed against the Bankruptcy Estates of the Debtors will have been paid in full. (d) Nonconsensual Confirmation Under Section 1129(b) of the Bankruptcy Code Although section 1129(a)(8) of the Bankruptcy Code requires that a plan be accepted by each class that is impaired by such plan, section 1129(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that the Bankruptcy Court may still confirm the Plan at the request of the Debtors if all requirements of section 1129(a) other than section 1129(a)(8) are met and if, with respect to each Class of Claims or 86 Interests that is impaired under the Plan and has not voted to accept the Plan, the Plan "does not discriminate unfairly" and is "fair and equitable." A plan confirmed on the basis of this provision is commonly referred to as a "cramdown" plan. A cramdown plan is only available pursuant to section 1129(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Code if at least one impaired class of claims accepts the plan. In the event there is no impaired accepting Class, the Debtors could not seek cramdown confirmation of the Plan because the Plan would not comply with the requirements of section 1129(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Code. In any event, the Debtors do not intend to seek confirmation of the Plan if the voting requirements of section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code are not met with respect to the relevant Claims. (e) Injunction Under Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code authorizes the Bankruptcy Court to enjoin Entities from taking action to collect, recover or receive payment or recovery with respect to any Claim or Demand that is to be paid in whole or in part by a trust created by a plan of reorganization that satisfies the requirements of the Bankruptcy Code. The injunction may also bar any action based on such Claims or Demands against Congoleum that are directed at third parties. To obtain the injunction, a trust must be established that (1) assumes Congoleum's Plan Trust Asbestos Claims; (2) is funded in whole or in part by securities of Congoleum and with an obligation by Congoleum to make future payments; (3) owns or is entitled to own if specified contingencies occur, a majority of the voting shares of Congoleum; and (4) uses its assets or income to satisfy claims and demands. As a requirement before issuing an injunction under section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy Court must determine that (1) Congoleum is likely to be subject to substantial Demands for payment arising out of the same or similar conduct or events that give rise to the Claims that are addressed by the injunction; (2) the actual amounts, numbers and timing of such Demands cannot be determined; (3) pursuit of such Demands outside the procedures prescribed by the Plan is likely to threaten the Plan's purpose to deal equitably with Claims and Demands; and (4) the Plan Trust will operate through mechanisms such as structured, periodic, or supplemental payments, pro rata distributions, matrices, or periodic review of estimates of the numbers and values of Claims and Demands, or other comparable mechanisms that provide reasonable assurance that the Plan Trust will value, and be in a financial position to pay, Claims and Demands that involve similar Claims in substantially the same manner. The Bankruptcy Court must also ensure that the terms of any proposed section 524(g) injunction are set forth in the plan and disclosure statement and that a separate Class or Classes of claimants whose Claims are to be addressed by the trust be established and vote, by at least seventy-five percent (75%) of those voting in such Class or Classes, in favor of the Plan. Moreover, the injunction will be valid and enforceable as to future claimants only if a legal representative is appointed to protect their rights in the proceedings and if the court determines that applying the injunction to future claimants in favor of the beneficiaries of the injunction is fair and equitable with respect to the Persons that might subsequently assert such Demands, in light of the benefits provided, or to be provided, to the Plan Trust on behalf of Congoleum or a beneficiary of the third party injunction. 87 The order confirming the Plan must be issued or affirmed by the District Court that has jurisdiction over the Reorganization Cases. The Company believes that it will be able to satisfy the requirements of section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code, to the extent that the requisite number of Asbestos Claimants in Classes 2, 3, 10, 11 and 12 vote in favor of the Plan. Under the jurisdictional scheme applicable to bankruptcy courts, jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases and proceedings arising under the Bankruptcy Code or arising in or related to bankruptcy cases is vested in the district courts. However, the district courts may refer them to the bankruptcy judges of the district. In most districts, the district court has entered a standing order referring all such matters to the bankruptcy judges. The Company filed the Reorganization Cases with the Bankruptcy Court of the District of New Jersey. Because section 524(g) requires, however, that any confirmation order containing a supplemental injunction must be issued or affirmed by the District Court, the reference may be withdrawn and the Reorganization Cases might proceed before a district judge. In this instance, the Debtors' Chapter 11 cases have been assigned to the Hon. Katherine Ferguson, a United States Bankruptcy Judge and it is anticipated that the Bankruptcy Judge will conduct the Confirmation Hearing and enter the Confirmation Order. In that instance, the section 524(g) injunctions will not be enforceable until the Confirmation Order is affirmed by a district judge. 7.4. Effect of Confirmation Upon the Bankruptcy Court's entry of the Confirmation Order (and, if the District Court is not the issuing court of the Confirmation Order, the Confirmation Order being affirmed thereof by the District Court as required by section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code), and subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date, the Plan will be binding upon the Company, all holders of Claims and Interests and all other parties in interest, regardless of whether they have accepted the Plan. ARTICLE 8 PLAN TRUST AND ASBESTOS CLAIMS RESOLUTION MATTERS THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF CERTAIN SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF THE PLAN TRUST. THIS SUMMARY IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE PLAN TRUST DOCUMENTS AND THE PLAN. 8.1. Establishment and Purpose of the Plan Trust On the Effective Date, the Plan Trust will be established in accordance with the Plan Documents. The Plan Trust is intended to be a "qualified settlement fund" within the meaning of section 468B of the IRC and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. All Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be paid in accordance with the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP. The purpose of the Plan Trust will be to, among other things, (a) pay all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims in accordance with the Plan, the TDP, the Plan Trust Agreement and the Confirmation Order; (b) preserve, hold, manage, and maximize the Plan Trust 88 Assets for use in paying and satisfying Plan Trust Asbestos Claims; (c) prosecute, settle, and manage the disposition of the Asbestos In-Place Insurance Coverage; and (d) prosecute, settle, and manage Asbestos Insurance Actions and Direct Actions. All Plan Trust Asbestos Claims, including the future Asbestos Claims and Demands of Plan Trust Asbestos Claimants that are presently unknown, will be determined and liquidated, if Allowed, pursuant to the Plan, the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP. On the Effective Date, all liabilities, obligations and responsibilities relating to all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be transferred to the Plan Trust and the Plan Trustees, on behalf of the Plan Trust, will expressly assume all liability for all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. As provided in the TDP, the Plan Trust will pay 100% of the proceeds of any Asbestos Insurance Action Recoveries, net of any payment of or reserve for Plan Trust Expenses and any payment of or reimbursement for Coverage Costs in accordance with the terms of the Plan Trust Agreement, to the Payment Percentage Claims in accordance with the TDP, provided that such distributions will not be prior to payment of or reserve for Plan Trust Expenses nor prior to payment of or reserve for Coverage Costs in accordance with the terms of the Plan Trust Agreement. During the bankruptcy proceedings, the Debtors have objected to the Asbestos Personal Injury Claims of certain Participating Claimants, and the Bankruptcy Court entered an order providing for the expungement and withdrawal of certain claims as described in Section 5.7 hereof. The Debtors are continuing due diligence regarding the allowance of claims pursuant to the Claimant Agreement. Section 12.4 of the Plan specifically provides that the Plan Trust shall be vested with the right, among others, to void any Asbestos Claim of a Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimant or of a Qualified Participating Claimant because of the failure to comply with the Claimant Agreement or other applicable settlement agreement or because such claims were not in good faith or otherwise. Section 3.1(c)(xxii) of the Plan Trust further provides that the Plan Trustees shall have the power to object to and compromise Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and other Claims as provided in the Plan. 8.2. Funding and Receipt of Plan Trust Assets On the Effective Date, Reorganized Congoleum will issue the Promissory Note to, and all Plan Trust Assets will be transferred to, vested in, and assumed by the Plan Trust free and clear of all Claims, Liens and encumbrances; provided, however, that to the extent that certain Plan Trust Assets, because of their nature or because they will accrue subsequent to the Effective Date, cannot be transferred to, vested in, and assumed by the Plan Trust on the Effective Date, such Plan Trust Assets will be transferred to, vested in, and assumed by the Plan Trust as soon as practicable after the Effective Date. On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, ABI will pledge the Pledged Stock and the Other Collateral to the Plan Trust to secure performance of the obligations of Congoleum under the Promissory Note. On the Effective Date, ABI will also deliver the ABI Contribution to the Plan Trust by wire transfer of immediately available funds. If ABI prepays the Promissory Note in accordance with the terms of the Promissory Note at any time after the Principal Adjustment Date (as defined in the Promissory Note), but prior to the third anniversary of the Principal Adjustment Date, and subsequent to that payment, but prior to such third anniversary there is a Disposition Event, then if the Second Re-Measurement Value exceeds the greater of the Re-Measurement Value (as defined in the Promissory Note) and $2,738,234.75, ABI will, following the effective date of such Disposition Event, promptly pay to the Plan Trust an amount equal to 50% of such excess amount. ABI may not prepay the Promissory 89 Note prior to the Principal Adjustment Date. On the Effective Date, the Debtors will also deliver the Insurance Assignment Agreement attached to the Plan as Exhibit "C" thereto, and such agreement will be valid, binding and enforceable. The Insurance Assignment Agreement will transfer claims and rights set forth therein as Debtors may have. On the Effective Date, pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Trust Agreement, all of the Collateral Trust's right, title and interest in and to any assets or properties then held by the Collateral Trust will automatically be transferred and assigned to, and vest in, the Plan Trust free and clear of all Claims, Liens and encumbrances, and all rights with respect to such assets and properties will be enforceable by the Plan Trust. The Debtors have settled with Liberty, AIG and Lloyd's Underwriters. See Section 5.9 - "Settlements with Insurers and Brokers" above for a description of the Liberty, AIG and Lloyd's Settlements. Congoleum is in discussions with a number of its other insurers about the possibility of consummating cash buy-back, coverage-in-place or other potential settlements of its existing insurance policies. It is not possible at this time to say whether or not such negotiations will succeed. It is possible that the Coverage Litigation will be resolved adversely to Congoleum; this would have a substantial adverse impact on the amount of funds available in the Plan Trust. It is also possible that the Coverage Litigation will result in a judgment establishing coverage in favor of Congoleum but requiring that in order to trigger a payment obligation by an insurer a claim would have to be adjusted through normal litigation or settlement with the participation of the relevant insurance carrier(s). If this occurred, it could be necessary either for the Plan Trust to be amended significantly or for significant numbers of Asbestos Personal Injury Claimants and their counsel to pursue claims through the courts in order to generate payments by insurance carriers into the Plan Trust. 8.3. Discharge of Liabilities to Holders of Asbestos Claims Except as provided in the Plan and the Confirmation Order, the transfer to, vesting in and assumption by the Plan Trust of the Plan Trust Assets as contemplated by the Plan, among other things, will discharge the Debtors and the Reorganized Debtors from and in respect of all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. 8.4. Excess Plan Trust Assets To the extent there are any Plan Trust Assets remaining after the payment in full of all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and all Plan Trust Expenses (or provision has been made therefor) in accordance with the Plan Trust Agreement and the TDP, such excess Plan Trust Assets will be transferred to a tax-exempt organization qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the IRC, which is to be determined by the Plan Trustee; provided, however, that such charitable purpose, if practicable, will be related to the treatment of or research regarding asbestos-related disorders. 90 8.5. Plan Trust Expenses The Plan Trust will pay all Plan Trust Expenses from the Plan Trust Assets. Neither the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, ABI nor their Affiliates will have any obligation to pay any Plan Trust Expenses. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, on the Effective Date, (i) the Collateral Trustee will provide the Plan Trust with a certification setting forth the amount of Asbestos Expenses incurred by or on behalf of, or imposed on, the Collateral Trust, or otherwise payable by the Collateral Trust, in each case prior to the Effective Date and all appropriate invoices and other backup regarding such Asbestos Expenses, including without limitation, amounts which may be due to the Claims Reviewer (or to Congoleum to reimburse it for amounts it paid to the Claims Reviewer) for services performed prior to the Effective Date and (ii) the Plan Trust will only assume Asbestos Expenses from periods prior to the Effective Date if and to the extent set forth on such certification. The Plan Trustees, each member of the TAC, the Futures Representative and the Representatives of each of the foregoing will have a lien upon the Plan Trust Assets which will be prior to any lien thereon, and the Plan Trust will grant a security interest in the Plan Trust Assets, all proceeds thereof and all accounts into which such proceeds or the Plan Trust Assets are deposited or maintained to secure payment of amounts payable to them as compensation or indemnification. 8.6. Appointment of the Initial Plan Trustees Prior to the Confirmation Hearing, the Debtors, with the approval of the Futures Representative and the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, will nominate the three initial Plan Trustees. Effective as of the Effective Date, the Bankruptcy Court will appoint the initial Plan Trustees to serve as Plan Trustees in accordance with the Plan Trust Agreement. For purposes of performing his or her duties and fulfilling his or her obligations under the Plan Trust Agreement, the TDP and the Plan, the Plan Trustees will each be deemed to be a party in interest within the meaning of section 1109(b) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Plan Trustees will be the "administrator" of the Plan Trust as that term is used in Treasury Regulation Section 1.468B-2(k)(3). 8.7. The Futures Representative On and after the Effective Date, the Futures Representative will continue to serve as the Futures Representative pursuant to the terms of the Plan Trust Agreement and will have the functions and rights provided in the Plan Trust Documents. 8.8. Appointment of Members of the Trust Advisory Committee After the Confirmation Date, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee will designate the initial members of the TAC. Effective as of the Effective Date, the Bankruptcy Court will appoint the initial members of the TAC (and thereupon the TAC will be formed) to serve as members of the TAC in accordance with the Plan Trust Agreement. 8.9. Assumption of Liabilities On the Effective Date, all liabilities, obligations and responsibilities relating to all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and Asbestos Expenses will be transferred to the Plan Trust and the Plan Trustees, on behalf of the Plan Trust, will expressly assume all liability for all Plan Trust Asbestos Claims, Demands and Asbestos Expenses, subject to the provisions of the Plan Trust Agreement. 91 8.10. Indemnification of the Company and Reorganized Congoleum by the Plan Trust As and to the extent provided in the Plan Trust Agreement, the Plan Trust (and to the extent specified in Section 6.8(f), the Reorganized Debtors) will indemnify and hold harmless each of the Plan Trustees, the Plan Trust officers and employees, the Futures Representative, the Claimants' Representative, the Pre-Petition Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Collateral Trustee, each member of the TAC, the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors and their respective past, present and future Representatives. 8.11. Establishment of the TDP Following the Effective Date, the Plan Trustees will promptly implement the TDP. The TDP sets forth the procedures for resolving TDP Valued Asbestos Claims. The TDP also provides mechanisms such as structured, periodic or supplemental payments, pro rata distributions, or periodic review of estimates of the numbers and values of present Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims and future Demands, or other comparable mechanisms, that provide reasonable assurance that the Plan Trust will value and be in a financial position to pay similar Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims in substantially the same manner. The TDP may be modified prior to the Effective Date and after the Effective Date from time to time in accordance with the terms of the TDP and the Trust Agreement. ARTICLE 9 ESTIMATED CLAIMS BY CLASS The Company and its professionals have attempted to determine the number and amount of Asbestos Claims likely to be asserted in the case. There are such inherent difficulties in doing so that no representation can be made as to the precise accuracy of such information. Claims against the Company are as follows: 9.1. Claims other than Asbestos Claims (a) Administrative Expense Claims The Company estimates that the costs and expenses of the Reorganization Cases will likely total approximately $42 million (before any reimbursement of Coverage Costs), including the costs of professionals retained during the Reorganization Cases. (b) Priority Tax Claims The Company believes it is likely that there will be few, if any, Priority Tax Claims. (c) Priority Claims (Class 1) The Company obtained approval of the Bankruptcy Court to pay Priority Claims in the ordinary course of business, including wages due to employees and contributions on its employees' behalf to employee benefit plans. The Company believes that there will be few, if any, Priority Claims remaining unpaid at the Effective Date. 92 (d) Lender Secured Claims (Class 4) The Company estimates that the Lender Secured Claims (Class 4) total approximately $11.8 million. (e) Senior Note Claims (Class 6) The Company expects that the Senior Note Claims (Class 6) total approximately $100 million, plus accrued interest through the Effective Date. (f) General Unsecured Claims (Class 7) The Company obtained authority from the Bankruptcy Court at the beginning of the Reorganization Cases to pay such claims in the ordinary course of business, when such Claims become due. The Company believes that there will be few, if any, General Unsecured Claims remaining unpaid at the Effective Date. (g) Workers' Compensation Claims (Class 8) As of December 31, 2003, the current incurred liability was estimated to be approximately $3.2 million. (h) ABI Claims (Class 9) The Company estimates such Claims total approximately $1.8 million. 9.2. Asbestos Claims (a) Secured Asbestos Claims (Classes 2 and 3) The Company estimates that the maximum amount of the aggregate Settlement Amounts of Secured Asbestos Claimants total approximately $375 million. (b) Not Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims (Class 10) In light of the information presently available to the Company, and the uncertainties and difficulties inherent in determining the number and amount of Asbestos Claims, the Company believes that the classification and treatment provided by the Plan complies with applicable law and is fair and equitable. (c) Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claim (Class 11) The Previously Determined Unsecured Asbestos Personal Injury Claims total approximately $116.4 million. 93 (d) Asbestos Property Damage Claims (Class 12) The aggregate amount of Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claims is approximately $180,000 and does not exceed the amount of proceeds from insurance coverage available for such Claims. ARTICLE 10 RISKS OF THE PLAN 10.1. General The following is intended as a summary of certain risks associated with the Plan, but is not exhaustive and must be supplemented by the analysis and evaluation of the Plan and this Disclosure Statement as a whole by each holder of a Claim with such holder's own counsel and other advisors. 10.2. Confirmation Risks For the Plan to be confirmed, each Impaired Class is given the opportunity to vote to accept or reject the Plan. With regard to the Impaired Classes which vote on the Plan, the Plan will be deemed accepted by a Class of Impaired Claims if the Plan is accepted by holders of Claims of such Class who hold at least two-thirds in amount and more than one-half in number of the total Allowed Claims of such Class actually voting on the Plan. Only those members of a Class who vote to accept or reject the Plan will be counted for voting purposes. The Plan must also comply with the requirements of section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. Thus, if votes of holders of Claims in Classes 2, 3, 10, 11 and 12 are received in number and amount sufficient to enable the Bankruptcy Court to confirm the Plan and issue a supplemental injunction under section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code, the Company intends to seek, as promptly as practicable, confirmation of the Plan. In this regard, the holders of Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claims have voted to accept the treatment of their Claims under the Fourth Modified Plan. Furthermore, as conditions to confirmation of the Plan (unless waived by the Debtors, with the written consent of ABI, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee and the Futures Representative), inter alia, (i) at least 95% of the holders of Allowed Secured Asbestos Claims of Qualified Participating Claimants must have irrevocably consented or be deemed to have irrevocably consented to the Forbearance of his, her or its rights under Articles II, III.C, IV and VIII of the Claimant Agreement and his, her or its rights, if any, under the Collateral Trust Agreement and the Security Agreement by voting to accept the Plan or by failing to timely object to such Forbearance upon notice thereof and (ii) a forbearance agreement, in the form set forth in Exhibit I to the Plan, must have been executed and delivered on behalf of Congoleum and all of the Qualified Pre-Petition Settlement Claimants. Any objection to the Plan by a party in interest could either prevent, or delay for a significant period of time, confirmation of the Plan. Moreover, although the Company believes that the Plan will satisfy all requirements necessary for confirmation by the Bankruptcy Court, there can be no assurance that the Bankruptcy Court will reach the same conclusion. 94 10.3. Insurance Coverage for Plan Trust Asbestos Claims As described in Section 2.2 above, Congoleum has been in discussions with its insurers about insurance coverage for Asbestos Claims for some time. Furthermore, as specifically discussed in Section 2.2(c) above, there is insurance coverage litigation currently pending between Congoleum and its excess insurers, and the guaranty funds and associations for the State of New Jersey. In the Coverage Litigation, Congoleum's insurers have asserted that both the Claimant Agreement and the TDP are unreasonable and the result of improper "collusion" among counsel representing Asbestos Claimants and Congoleum. According to Congoleum's insurers, Congoleum has violated numerous provisions in its insurance policies by agreeing to the Claimant Agreement and the TDP. In particular, Congoleum's insurers assert that Congoleum has violated consent-to-settlement clauses, cooperation clauses, consent-to-assignment clauses, and other clauses. Most of Congoleum's insurers assert that they have no coverage obligations for claims resolved pursuant to the Claimant Agreement and the TDP. Most of Congoleum's insurers also have asserted coverage defenses unrelated to the terms of particular settlement agreements entered into by Congoleum. Some of Congoleum's insurers also assert that, as a result of Congoleum's alleged breaches of its insurance policies, the policies are now void, relieving the insurers of all coverage obligations for all time under the policies. While the recoveries of Asbestos Claimants under the Plan could be affected by an adverse ruling in the Coverage Litigation, Congoleum strongly disagrees with the insurers' coverage positions and believes that the most valuable assets being assigned to the Plan Trust under the Plan are proceeds from Congoleum's insurance policies. Congoleum believes, based on discovery taken in the coverage litigation to date, that one of three outcomes is possible if the Court were to rule that Congoleum is not entitled to coverage for claims asserted under the Claimant Agreement: (i) all coverage, both present and future, could be voided; (ii) Claims settled under the Claimant Agreements could be deemed ineligible for insurance coverage, but all future and unliquidated claims or demands would remain eligible for coverage; or (iii) future coverage would remain in place, and the insurers would be required to compensate Congoleum for any settled claims that satisfied the disease and exposure criteria in accordance with the various policies of insurance. Based upon developments in the Coverage Litigation to date, Congoleum believes it is highly unlikely that it will be left with no liability insurance coverage for liquidated and/or future claims even if the Court in the Coverage Litigation were to rule that the Claimant Agreements did not settle conclusively the rights of the Plan Trust to insurance coverage. Because of the risks involved with respect to the effects of various potential rulings by the Bankruptcy Court or an appeal thereof, as well as the uncertainty in the resolution of any present or future Asbestos Insurance Action, including the Coverage Litigation, the ultimate value of the insurance proceeds that will be available to the Plan Trust is uncertain. The Company has addressed the potential impact of this uncertainty on the Plan Trust by authorizing the Plan Trustees, with the consent of the TAC and the Futures Representative, to amend the TDP and/or the Plan Trust Agreement under certain circumstances. Specifically, Section 8.2 of the TDP provides that should any 95 provision contained in the TDP be determined to be inconsistent with or contrary to Congoleum's obligations to any insurance company providing insurance coverage to any Debtor in respect of claims for personal injury based on exposure to asbestos-containing products, the Plan Trustees, with the consent of the TAC and the Futures Representative, may amend the TDP and/or the Plan Trust Agreement to make the provisions of either or both documents consistent with the duties and obligations of such Debtor to said insurance company. Moreover, the possibility that one or more of the Insurance Companies may become insolvent in the future may impact the value of Congoleum's insurance coverage, and thus the value of the Plan Trust Assets. 10.4. Distributions under the TDP Payments that will be made on Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be determined under the TDP, the Plan and the Plan Trust Agreement and will be based on one hand, upon estimates of the number, types and amount of present and expected future Plan Trust Asbestos Claims and, on the other hand, on the value of the Plan Trust Assets, the liquidity of the Plan Trust Assets, the Plan Trust's expected future expenses and income, as well as other material matters that are reasonable and likely to affect the sufficiency of funds to pay all holders of Plan Trust Asbestos Claims. There can be no certainty as to the precise amounts that will be distributed by the Plan Trust in any particular time period or when Plan Trust Asbestos Claims will be paid by the Plan Trust. 10.5. Risk of Post-Confirmation Default Although no guarantees can be given, the Company believes that the cash flow generated by its business and assets will be sufficient to meet Reorganized Congoleum's ongoing business obligations and operating requirements and that such cash flow will be sufficient to make the payments required under the Plan. The Company further believes that Congoleum's net cash flow will be sufficient to make payments on the Promissory Note to the Plan Trust. At the Confirmation Hearing, the Bankruptcy Court will be required to make a judicial determination that the Plan is feasible in order to confirm the Plan. ARTICLE 11 ALTERNATIVES TO CONFIRMATION AND CONSUMMATION OF THE PLAN If the Plan is not confirmed and consummated, the alternatives to the Plan include (a) liquidation of the Company under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code; and (b) an alternative plan of reorganization. 11.1. Liquidation under Chapter 7 If no plan can be confirmed, the Reorganization Cases may be converted to proceedings under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, pursuant to which a trustee would be appointed to liquidate the assets of the Company for distribution in accordance with the priorities established by the Bankruptcy Code. A discussion of the effects that a Chapter 7 liquidation would have on the recovery of holders of Claims and Equity Interests and the Company's liquidation analysis are set forth in Section 7.3(a)(1) -- "Best Interests Test" above. The Company believes that the timing of the distributions under a Chapter 7 case would be delayed and the amount of distributions that would be made in a Chapter 7 case would be materially less than the distributions contemplated by the Plan, because, among other things, (a) the ability of the trustee in a Chapter 7 case 96 to negotiate settlements with Asbestos Insurance Companies without the benefit of the section 524(g) injunctions is likely to be impaired, and (b) a Chapter 7 trustee would not receive the benefits of the Promissory Note or the ABI Contribution. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is a Liquidation Analysis for the Company, which assumes that a bankruptcy case under Chapter 7 is commenced immediately and that the Company's assets are liquidated by a Chapter 7 trustee in an orderly liquidation. The Liquidation Analysis is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions which, while considered reasonable, are inherently beyond the control of the Company or any Chapter 7 trustee. Accordingly, there can be no assurances that the values reflected in the Liquidation Analysis would be realized if the Company were to undergo such a Chapter 7 liquidation; actual results could vary materially from those shown in that exhibit. In addition, any liquidation would necessarily take place in the future under circumstances which presently cannot be predicted. Accordingly, if the Estates were liquidated, the actual liquidation proceeds could be materially lower or higher than the amounts set forth in Exhibit B, and no representation or warranty can be made with respect to the actual proceeds that could be received in a Chapter 7 liquidation. 11.2. Alternative Plan of Reorganization If the Plan is not confirmed, the Company, or if the Company's exclusive period in which to file a plan of reorganization has expired, any other party in interest could attempt to formulate a different plan of reorganization. However, the Plan is the product of extensive negotiations among Congoleum, the Futures Representative, the Asbestos Claimants' Committee, the Claimants' Representative and ABI, and is a delicate balance of the competing and conflicting interests held by those parties. Any attempt to propose an alternative plan containing different terms for any of these parties would threaten to disrupt the balance established by the Plan. This, in turn, could lead to years of costly litigation for all parties. THE COMPANY BELIEVES THAT THE CONFIRMATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN IS PREFERABLE TO ANY OF THE ALTERNATIVES BECAUSE IT SHOULD PROVIDE GREATER RECOVERIES THAN THOSE AVAILABLE IN LIQUIDATION OR UNDER ANY ALTERNATIVE PLAN. ARTICLE 12 CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PLAN A summary description of certain United States federal income tax consequences of the Plan is provided below. This summary is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for purposes of determining the specific tax consequences of the Plan to a particular holder of a Claim. Only the principal United States federal income tax consequences of the Plan to Congoleum, the Plan Trust and certain impaired holders of Claims are described below. No opinion of counsel has been sought or obtained with respect to any tax consequences of the Plan. No rulings or determinations of the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority have been sought or obtained with respect to any tax consequences of the Plan, and the discussion below is not binding upon the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority. No assurance can be given that the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority would not assert, or that a court would not sustain, a different position from any discussed herein. 97 This summary is based upon existing United States federal income tax law, which is subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect. This summary does not address all aspects of United States federal income taxation that may be important to a particular holder of a Claim in light of such holder's individual investment circumstances or to certain types of holders of Claims subject to special tax rules (e.g., financial institutions, insurance companies, broker-dealers, tax-exempt organizations, and foreign persons), all of whom may be subject to tax rules that differ significantly from those summarized below. This summary does not discuss any foreign, state, or local tax considerations. In addition, this summary does not address the possible application of IRC provisions and United States Treasury regulations concerning reportable transactions, which include transactions with respect to which, under certain circumstances, taxpayers claim losses. This summary is not intended to constitute a complete analysis of all tax considerations relevant to a particular holder of a Claim. Each holder of a Claim should seek advice from its own independent tax advisors concerning the United States federal, state, local, foreign income and other tax consequences of the Plan to them in light of their particular circumstances. Internal Revenue Service regulations generally provide that, for the purpose of avoiding federal tax penalties, a taxpayer may rely only on formal written opinions meeting specific regulatory requirements. This summary does not meet those requirements; consequently, this summary was not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding federal tax penalties that may be imposed on a holder of a Claim. Further, this summary was written to support the promotion or marketing of the Plan. 12.1. Tax Consequences to Congoleum (a) Discharge of Indebtedness In general, a taxpayer must include in gross income the amount of any indebtedness that is cancelled ("COD Income") during the taxable year. However, Section 108(a)(1)(A) of the IRC provides an exception to this rule where a taxpayer is subject to the jurisdiction of a bankruptcy court and the cancellation of indebtedness is granted by, or effected pursuant to, a plan approved by such court, as would be the case upon the confirmation of the Plan. In this event, rather than being included in gross income, the COD Income is applied to reduce the following tax attributes of the taxpayer in the following order: net operating losses, business and minimum tax credit carry forwards, capital loss carry forwards, the basis of the taxpayer's assets, and foreign tax credit carry forwards (collectively, the "Tax Attributes"). Under Section 108(b)(5) of the IRC, a taxpayer may elect to first apply the reduction to the basis of the taxpayer's depreciable assets, with any remaining balance applied to the other Tax Attributes in the order stated above. Additionally, Section 108(e)(2) of the IRC provides that no COD Income is realized to the extent that the taxpayer's satisfaction of the cancelled debt would have given rise to a tax deduction for United States federal income tax purposes. The effect of Section 108(e)(2) of the IRC, where applicable, is to allow the taxpayer's debt to be cancelled without the recognition of income by the taxpayer and without reduction of its Tax Attributes. Pursuant to the Plan, although an amount of Asbestos Claims will be paid, holders of Asbestos Claims may receive less than 100% of the face value of their Claims and thus an amount of Asbestos Claims also may be cancelled. However, such cancellation of Asbestos Claims generally will not result in COD 98 Income to Reorganized Congoleum because payment of the Asbestos Claims would have given rise to tax deductions for Reorganized Congoleum. In addition, although the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement have not yet been determined, Congoleum believes it unlikely that an amendment of the Existing Credit Agreement will result in COD Income to Reorganized Congoleum. Although adoption of the Amended Credit Agreement may be viewed, for United States federal income tax purposes, as an exchange of one debt instrument for another, such deemed exchange will result in COD Income only if, among other things, the principal amount of the debt under the Amended Credit Agreement is less than the principal amount of the debt under the Existing Credit Agreement or if the interest rate on the debt under the Amended Credit Agreement is less than a certain threshold, neither of which is expected to occur. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the discharge of indebtedness pursuant to the Plan were to cause Reorganized Congoleum to recognize COD Income, Congoleum has not yet determined whether it would make the election under Section 108(b)(5) of the IRC to apply any required Tax Attribute reduction first to depreciable property, with any excess next applied to reduce other Tax Attributes. In this regard, as of December 31, 2004, Congoleum had net operating losses of approximately $6.6 million. (b) Transfers to the Plan Trust The Treasury regulations promulgated under Section 468B of the IRC provide that a fund, account, or trust will constitute a qualified settlement fund ("QSF") if it satisfies three conditions. First, the fund, account, or trust must be established pursuant to an order of or be approved by a government authority, including a court, and must be subject to the continuing jurisdiction of that government authority. Second, the fund, account, or trust must be established to resolve or satisfy one or more contested or uncontested claims that have resulted or may result from an event or related series of events that has occurred and that has given rise to at least one claim asserting liability arising from, among other things, a tort. Third, the fund, account, or trust must be a trust under applicable state law or have its assets physically segregated from the other assets of the transferor and persons related to the transferor. The transfer of property to a QSF generally is treated as a sale or exchange of that property. However, the issuance of a transferor's debt generally is not a transfer of property for this purpose and generally does not result in gain or loss to the transferor. A payment to a QSF generally is deductible when made, assuming that such payment otherwise constitutes an ordinary and necessary business expense. However, to the extent that debt issued by the transferor is transferred to a QSF, the transferor is generally entitled to a deduction only as the transferor makes principal payments. Additionally, no deduction is allowed with respect to the transfer of insurance proceeds to a QSF to the extent the transferred amounts are excludable from gross income of the transferor. If the settlement of an insurance claim occurs after the transfer of such claim to the QSF and a deduction has been taken with respect to such transfer, then the transferor must include in income the amounts received from the settlement of the insurance claim to the extent of the deduction. Assuming confirmation of the Plan, the Plan Trust will be established to satisfy Plan Trust Asbestos Claims alleged to arise out of a tort or torts, will be a trust under state law, and will be approved by the Bankruptcy Court or District Court and subject to its continuing jurisdiction. 99 Accordingly, based on those assumptions and on the completion of certain filings, the Plan Trust will constitute a QSF after confirmation of the Plan. Certain insurance proceeds and certain rights under insurance coverage will be transferred to the Plan Trust, and Reorganized Congoleum also will transfer the Promissory Note to the Plan Trust. Although amounts transferred to a QSF generally are deductible, no deduction will be allowed to Reorganized Congoleum with respect to the transfer of insurance proceeds to the extent the transferred amounts are excludable from gross income of Reorganized Congoleum. Further, if the settlement of an insurance claim occurs after the transfer of such claim to the QSF and Reorganized Congoleum has taken a deduction with respect to such transfer, then Reorganized Congoleum will be required to include in income the amounts received from the settlement of the insurance claim to the extent of the deduction. With regard to the Promissory Note, Reorganized Congoleum will generally be entitled to tax deductions as it makes principal payments on the Promissory Note. 12.2. Tax Consequences to the Plan Trust Assuming that, as expected, the Plan Trust qualifies as a QSF, the Plan Trust will be required to pay federal income tax on its modified gross income, as defined in the Treasury regulations promulgated under Section 468B of the IRC, at the highest rate applicable to estates and trusts. The Plan Trust generally will not be required to include in income amounts transferred to it pursuant to the Plan, except that interest and original issue discount, if any, on the Promissory Note will be includible in gross income by the Plan Trust. The Plan Trust will not be entitled to deduct amounts that it pays with respect to Plan Trust Asbestos Claims, but will be entitled to deduct amounts paid for administrative costs and other incidental costs of the Plan Trust. 12.3. Tax Consequences to Certain Impaired Holders of Claims The United States federal income tax consequences to a holder of a Claim that is impaired and the character and amount of income, gain or loss recognized as a consequence of the Plan and the distributions provided for thereby will be determined by reference to the Claim in respect of which the distribution is made and as if the distribution were made directly by Reorganized Congoleum and accordingly will depend upon, among other things: (1) the nature of the Claim, (2) the manner in which a holder acquired the Claim, (3) the length of time the Claim has been held, (4) whether the Claim was acquired at a discount, (5) whether the holder has taken a bad debt deduction with respect to the Claim (or any portion thereof) in the current or prior years, (6) whether the holder has previously included in income accrued but unpaid interest with respect to the Claim, (7) the method of tax accounting of the holder, and (8) whether the Claim constitutes a security for United States federal income tax purposes. Accordingly, each holder of a Claim is urged to consult its tax advisor regarding the tax consequences of the Plan to it. (a) Holders of Asbestos Claims Under Section 104 of the IRC, to the extent that a payment from the Plan Trust to a holder of an Asbestos Personal Injury Claim constitutes damages on account of personal physical injuries or physical sickness of such holder, such payment will not constitute gross income to such holder, except to the extent that the payment is attributable to medical expense deductions taken under Section 213 of the IRC for a prior taxable year. A payment from the Plan 100 Trust to a holder of an Asbestos Personal Injury Claim other than on account of personal physical injuries or physical sickness generally will be includible in gross income of such holder. A payment to a holder of an Allowed Asbestos Property Damage Claim generally will result in a non-taxable return of capital, and a corresponding decrease in the holder's tax basis in the damaged property, and will generate income or gain, if any, to the holder in an amount equal to the excess of the payment received and such holder's tax basis in the damaged property. (b) Holder of Lender Secured Claim As discussed above, an amendment of the Existing Credit Agreement may result in a deemed exchange, for United States federal income tax purposes, of the Existing Credit Agreement for the Amended Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding this, it is not expected that the holder of the Lender Secured Claim will realize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of this deemed exchange, assuming that the principal amount of the debt under the Amended Credit Agreement is the same as the principal amount of the debt under the Existing Credit Agreement and the interest rate on the Amended Credit Agreement exceeds a minimum threshold. (c) Information Reporting and Backup Withholding Certain payments of Allowed Claims may be subject to information reporting by the Plan Trust to the Internal Revenue Service. Moreover, such reportable payments may be subject to backup withholding (at a rate of 28% for 2005) under certain circumstances. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules may be credited against a holder's United States federal income tax liability, and a holder may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules by filing an appropriate claim for refund with the Internal Revenue Service (generally, a United States federal income tax return). ARTICLE 13 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 13.1. General An analysis of the Company's financial condition appears in the Financial Statements attached hereto as Exhibit "C" and Exhibit "D". This information is provided to permit Claimants to better understand the Company's financial condition. The Company is required to file monthly operating reports with the Bankruptcy Court. Such financial information is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and publicly available for review. In addition, Congoleum continues to make the filings required by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 101 ARTICLE 14 SOURCES OF INFORMATION PROVIDED AND THE ACCOUNTING METHOD USED 14.1. Sources of Information The information set forth in this Disclosure Statement was provided by and/or prepared in consultation with the Company. 14.2. Accounting Method The Company maintains its books and records on an accrual basis, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The financial statements of the Company have been audited by the accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP through December 31, 2004. RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION The Company recommends that all holders of Claims in Classes 2, 3, 9, 10 and 11 and holders of Interests in Class 13 vote to accept the Plan, and urges each of them to evidence such acceptance and approval, by instructing the holder of any proxy for them to vote to accept the Plan on their behalf, or by returning their ballots so that they will be received on or before the Voting Deadline. In the view of the Company, the Plan provides the best available alternative for maximizing the distributions that holders of Asbestos Claims will receive from the Estates. (THE REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE HAS BEEN LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK) 102 The undersigned has executed this Disclosure Statement as of the 22nd day of July 2005. Respectfully submitted, CONGOLEUM CORPORATION By: /s/ Roger S. Marcus -------------------------------------- Name: Roger S. Marcus Title: Chief Executive Officer and President CONGOLEUM FISCAL, INC. By: /s/ Roger S. Marcus -------------------------------------- Name: Roger S. Marcus Title: President CONGOLEUM SALES, INC. By: /s/ Roger S. Marcus -------------------------------------- Name: Roger S. Marcus Title: President PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP 1540 Broadway New York, NY 10036-4039 Richard L. Epling Robin L. Spear Kerry A. Brennan And OKIN, HOLLANDER & DELUCA, LLP Parker Plaza 400 Kelby Street Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024 Paul S. Hollander James J. DeLuca ATTORNEYS FOR CONGOLEUM CORPORATION, CONGOLEUM FISCAL, INC. and CONGOLEUM SALES, INC. 103