Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)

The sworn responses of the Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund, answering for Johns-Manville, to plaintiffs' interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter Company and related cases in the Circuit Court for the City of Newport News, Virginia, sworn in February 1990. Manville gives its corporate history, its 22 plants with their operating dates and the products made at each, the asbestos-free products that replaced its asbestos insulation between 1971 and 1977, the wording of its product and fiber-bag warning labels from 1964 to 1985, and the claims of insulation workers before 1970. The Fund says these answers "update and supersede" any earlier ones "in any and all cases."

What it shows

Manville names its first asbestos claim (Anna Pirskowski, a former plant employee, May 8, 1929), dates "confirmation" of asbestosis to the early 1930s, and says its insulation labels began in 1964 "after learning of reports from Dr. Irving J. Selikoff." Set beside its 1958 answers in Le Grande, which dated the first case among its own workers to 1946, the account of what J-M knew moves back by some seventeen years.

About this copy

Printed page 97 is missing from the scan, so the answer to interrogatory 39 and the question of interrogatory 40 are lost. Exhibits A and B, cited in the answers, are not in the file.