Larry provide two great examples, but I think something that gets
overlooked in these examples, is the countless cases that are settled just
to avoid the costs of discovery, which can be astronomical if you don't
have some sort of destruction process in place. Those in charge can easily
dismiss the examples where "wrong doing" is not adequately covered up, but
the cost to most businesses usually  isn't the smoking gun, it's the cost
of proving that no smoking guns exist that is most prohibitive.

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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 08/23/2007
11:59:17 AM:

> On 8/23/07, Roger Hamperian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend some case studies that illustrate the hazards of
> > not destroying records that have met their required retention?
>
>
>
> Two salient cases come to mind off the top:
>
> RJ Reynolds, who was required to produce  documents regarding research on
> the negative impacts of smoking that  could have, but were not, destroyed
> in  the course of normal business after meeting their assigned retention.
>
> Arthur Andersen, who gave instructions for a mass disposal of records
that
> would have proven damaging to their client that should have been disposed
of
> 2-3 years earlier, but weren't.
>
> Larry
>
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> Larry Medina
> Danville, CA
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