March 13, 2009  
ASBESTOS LITIGATION: Rogers Facing 163 Pending Claims at Dec. 31

Rogers Corporation faced 163 pending asbestos claims as of Dec.
31, 2008, compared with 175 pending claims at Dec. 30, 2007,
according to the Company's 2008 annual report filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Company faced 188 pending asbestos claims as of Sept. 28,
2008. (Class Action Reporter, Nov. 21, 2008)

The Company has been named in asbestos litigation primarily in
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Mississippi.

Of the 163 claims pending as of Dec. 31, 2008, 55 claims do not
specify the amount of damages sought, 104 claims cite
jurisdictional amounts, and four claims (or about 2.5 percent of
the pending claims) specify the amount of damages sought not
based on jurisdictional requirements.

Of these four claims, one claim alleges compensatory and
punitive damages of US$20 million; one claim alleges
compensatory and punitive damages of US$1 million and an
unspecified amount of exemplary damages, interest and costs; and
two claims allege compensatory damages of US$65 million and
punitive damages of US$60 million. These four claims name
between nine and 76 defendants.

Cases involving the Company typically name 50-300 defendants,
although some cases have had as few as one and as many as 833
defendants. The Company has obtained dismissals of many of these
claims.

For the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2008, the Company was able to
have 83 claims dismissed and settled claims. For the fiscal year
ended Dec. 30, 2007, about 59 claims were dismissed and 12 were
settled. Most costs have been paid by the Company's insurance
carriers, including the costs associated with the small number
of cases that have been settled.

Those settlements totaled US$1.5 million in 2008, compared with
US$2 million for the full year 2007.

Headquartered in Rogers, Conn., Rogers Corporation develops and
manufactures high performance, specialty-material-based products
for applications including: portable communications,
communications infrastructure, computer and office equipment,
consumer products, ground transportation, aerospace and defense.
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