Amosite: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve amosite: 49 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Amosite.

California

• Phipps v. Copeland Corporation LLC (2nd Appellate District, 7th Division, 2021). Navy service at U.S.S. Porterfield, 1966-1969
• Hake v. Allied Fluid Products Corp. (1st Appellate District, 4th Division, 2018). Navy service (gunner's mate technician apprentice, later nuclear weapons specialist) at Bremerton Naval Shipyard
• Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (1st Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2015). Worker at refinery at Shell Odessa oil refinery, 1970
• Merrill v. Leslie Controls, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2009). Machinist's mate at United States Navy ships, 1959-1979
• Merrill v. Leslie Controls, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2009). Machinist's mate at United States Navy ships, 1959-1979
• Silvestro v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 8th Division, 2009). Boiler repairman at engine rooms on ships, 1966-1971
• Bakkie v. Union Carbide Corporation (1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 2007). Lineman at Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, 1980-1986
• Rosen v. Regents of University of California (1st Appellate District, 4th Division, 2007). Young child of a shipyard upholsterer at naval shipyard, 1943-1944
• Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997). Sheet metal worker, later engineering technician working with ventilation at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1940 onward; early 1950s
• Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 1995). Metalsmith at U.S.S. Bremerton (decommissioning overhaul at Long Beach), 1960

Delaware

• Malone v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2016). Insulator at Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, 1965-1973

Florida

• Snoozy v. US Gypsum Co. (3rd District, 1997). The appeals court reversed the denial of a new trial on the children's damages, ordering a new trial on that issue only, and affirmed the directed verdict removing the 75% fault the jury had assigned to unnamed "others", ruling against U.S. Gypsum on its cross-appeal.

Idaho

• Stephens v. Union Pacific R. Co. (2019). Child of a roundhouse worker; dust on father's work clothes at Union Pacific roundhouse, Weiser, late 1940s and early 1950s
• Stephens v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (2018). Son of a railroad roundhouse worker at Union Pacific Weiser roundhouse, 1944-1954

Illinois

• Daniels v. ArvinMeritor, Inc. (1st District, 4th Division, 2019). Union pipefitter at Chicago, 1957-1998
• Hartman v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (5th District, 1994). Electrician at Labadie Power House, 1969-70

Iowa

• Spaur v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1994). Laborer, auxiliary operator, plant attendant, cleanup duties at Iowa Power Plant on Vandalia Road, Des Moines, 1957-1985

Kentucky

• Certainteed Corporation v. Dexter (2010). Pipefitter at 1946-1984

Louisiana

• Robichaux v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2023). Insulator and carpenter at Avondale Shipyard, 1961-1979
• Sentilles v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022). Yard clerk in the insulation shop at Avondale shipyard insulation shop, May 28, 1969 to June 23, 1969
• Sentilles v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022). Yard clerk in the insulation shop at Avondale shipyard insulation shop, 1969
• Jackson v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2020). Employee of Avondale Shipyard at Avondale Shipyard, 1970-1977
• Loupe v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2016). Wife of Avondale worker (Lee Tregre) at U.S. Army tugs, Navy Destroyer Escorts and Coast Guard cutters built at Avondale
• Laurent v. New Orleans City (2015). Fireman apprentice, fireman, and machinery repairman at Navy ships, 1950s and 1960s
• Francis v. Union Carbide Corporation (4th Circuit, 2013). Child of a shipyard worker (father's work clothes) at Pendleton Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, 1943-1945
• Zimko v. American Cyanamid (4th Circuit, 2005). Child of a boiler house supervisor, exposed at home at American Cyanamid chemical plant, Bound Brook (household exposure through his father), 1945-1966
• Hennegan v. Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Co. (4th Circuit, 2002). Child living nearby at Johns-Manville Marrero plant neighborhood, childhood
• Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (4th Circuit, 1998). Shipfitter doing carpentry work at Avondale Shipyards, 27 years, to 1978

Maine

• Coffin v. Ametek, Inc. (2020). Bath Iron Works

Maryland

• Ford Motor v. Wood (1998). Longshoreman at 1942-1947

Missouri

• Hagen v. Celotex Corp. (1991). Wife of an asbestos worker who washed his coveralls at 1941 onward

New York

• Simpson v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1990). Worked on the steam piping system at Rochester Gas and Electric Company, 1957-1988

North Carolina

• Walls v. Ford Motor Company (2022). Navy service at USS Charles H. Roan and USS Arcadia
• Finch v. Covil Corporation (2019). Mold changer in the curing room at Firestone tire plant, Wilson, 1975-1995

Ohio

• Bartel v. John Crane, Inc. (2004). Merchant seaman, engine department (Fireman/Watertender up to Chief Engineer) at Merchant vessels (steam vessels), 1964-1994

Other federal courts

• Johnstone v. American Oil Co. (1993). Jones Act seaman at Four merchant vessels built during World War II, 1964 and 1967-1978
• Rohrbaugh v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1992). Wife of an insulator; laundered his work clothes at before 1969

Texas

• Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (13th District, 2019). Pipefitter at Union Carbide chemical plant, Brownsville, 1975-1977
• Pittsburgh Corning Corp. v. Walters (13th District, 1999). Navy enlistee overseeing nuclear submarine construction at Navy nuclear submarine construction, 1960s

Virginia

• Goodrich v. John Crane, Inc. (2018). Fireman, machinist's mate, boiler tender at USS Corry (DDR-817), 1959-1961
• Ford Motor Co. v. Boomer (2013). Pipefitter at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, early 1940s

Washington

• Klopman-Baerselman v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019). Boiler oilman/stoker at SS Friesland and SS Waterman, 1955-1959
• Klopman-Baerselman v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019). Boiler oilman/stoker at SS Friesland and SS Waterman, 1955-1959
• Klopman-Baerselman v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019). Boiler oilman/stoker, merchant mariner at SS Friesland, SS Waterman and SS Kertosono, 1955-1959
• Barabin v. AstenJOHNSON (2018). Papermaker at Crown-Zellerbach Camas Mill, 1968-2001
• Estenson v. Caterpillar Inc. (1st Division, 2015). Navy serviceman working on repairs at USS Curtiss, 1948-1952
• Lipson v. ON Marine Services Co. LLC (2014). Worked at a steel mill at steel mill

Wisconsin

• Boyer v. Weyerhaeuser Company (2016). Core mill worker (sweeping mineral core area, power jimmy operator) at Weyerhaeuser Marshfield door plant, 1973-1983
• Anderson v. Combustion Engineering, Inc. (2002). Machinist at Oak Creek power plant