Refractory Bricklayers: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve refractory bricklayers: 23 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Refractory Bricklayers.

Illinois

• Zupan v. Industrial Com. (5th District, 1986). Bricklayer at National Steel, Granite City Division plant, 1951-1973

Indiana

• Harris v. AC & S., Inc. (2002). Laborer, mason, and custodian at Inland Steel, 1942-1985

Louisiana

• Atkinson v. Celotex Corp. (3rd Circuit, 1994). Bricklayer, then supervisor at Cities Service Refinery, approximately 35 years

Maryland

• Stein v. Pfizer Inc. (2016). Bricklayer at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point plant, 1949-1985
• Smith v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1985). Bricklayer at Sparrows Point plant, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 1948-1981

New York

• Piepke v. Insulation Distributors (In re Eight Judicial District Asbestos Litigation) (Erie, 2020). Bricklayer at D'Youville or Buffalo State Colleges, 1957-1978
• Matter of Adesso v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2018). Bricklayer at commercial and industrial sites, Buffalo, 1962-2000
• Aquitato v. AMCHEM PRODUCTS, INC. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2017). Mason at 1964-1980
• Houston v. AO Smith Corp. (2014). Mason at North Shore Hospital, late 1960s
• Houston v. Beazer E., Inc. (2014). Mason at 1950s and 1960s
• Assenzio v. AO Smith Water Prods. (2013). Bricklayer
• Baiocco v. AC & S., Inc. (2013). Bricklayer at factories, churches, schools, hospitals, and residences, 1950s-1980s
• Miranda v. Abex Corp. (2010). Mason/construction worker at 1950s-1980s

Pennsylvania

• Herbert v. American Biltrite (2016). Brick mason
• Krauss v. Trane US Inc. (2014). Bricklaying trade at AgraCo, Donaldsville, 1978-1979
• Young v. Wcab (zinc Corp. OF America) (2006). Bricklayer foreman at Zinc Corporation of America, 1991-2001
• Coward v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999). Stone mason at hundreds of commercial construction sites (schools, hospitals, office buildings), almost three decades
• Sporio v. Wcab (Songer Const.) (1998). Bricklayer at approximately twenty-five years as a bricklayer; last asbestos exposure about June 1982
• Behrendt v. GAF Corp. (1993). Bricklayer at industrial, commercial and residential job sites, 1947-1989

Texas

• Ford Motor Company v. Miller (14th District, 2008). Union laborer repairing, tearing out, and rebuilding blast furnaces at Ford Rouge facility, Detroit, 1954-1965
• N RE General Electric Company (2008). Mason handling pipe-covering insulation at paper mill, over thirty years

West Virginia

• Lawrentz v. Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, W Va: Supreme Court of Appeals 2015 (2015). Worker in the mason shop at Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood

Wisconsin

• Zielinski v. AP Green Indus., Inc. (2003). Mason's helper, then mason at Ladish Company, 1947-1951, 1953-1954, 1957-1963