Ohio Court of Common Pleas: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 4 asbestos decisions from the Ohio Court of Common Pleas (1984–1995). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• State: Ohio
• Kind of court: State trial court

Decisions

• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Am. Centennial Ins. (1995). The court granted OCF partial summary judgment on known loss, notice, trigger, scope of coverage, exhaustion of the ACIC/PNIC layers, defense expenses, and Associated's time-barred fraud claim. It granted Associated its motion on the exhaustion time frame and ACIC and PNIC their motion on punitive damages. It denied OCF's motion on ACIC's and PNIC's fraud claims and denied Associated's expected-or-intended motion, so both go to trial.
• Layne v. GAF Corp. (1988). The court denied United States Mineral Products Co.'s motion for judgment n.o.v., upheld the verdict for plaintiff Geraldine Layne, and reduced the judgment to $338,300 for a setoff of settlement payments.
• Lavelle v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1987). The trial court granted the defendants' motion in limine to exclude evidence of increased risk of cancer and denied it as to evidence of the asbestosis-afflicted plaintiff's increased fear of cancer, so each side won in part.
• English v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984). The court ruled that Dr. Kleinerman, whom both sides had contacted as an expert, could be used at trial by any party and that his testimony was subject to discovery by all parties, rejecting the defendants' claim to exclusive use.