Chrysotile: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve chrysotile: 198 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Chrysotile.

Maryland

• Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. v. Saville (2009). Broke hustler cleaning dryer felts at Westvaco Pulp and Paper Mill, Luke, 1964-1978
• Garlock v. Gallagher (2003). Pipe fitter at Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point, 1946-1979
• Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. Pransky (2002). Child of a heating and air conditioning contractor; bystander in the home at Family home basement, Montgomery County, 1972-1983
• Ford Motor v. Wood (1998). Garageman at United States Post Office Preston Street Garage, Baltimore, 1948-1952

Michigan

• Chapin v. A & L Parts, Inc. (2007). Automobile brake mechanic at 45 years

Minnesota

• Conda v. Honeywell International, Inc. (2018). Replaced brakes at a gas station and for himself, friends and family at gas station

Missouri

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

New Jersey

• Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2022). Worker in the batching area who opened, poured and weighed raw ingredients including asbestos at Bloomfield Plant (adhesive products manufacturing plant), 1954-1994
• Marino v. Abex Corporation (2022). Laundered her husband's and son's dust-laden work clothes at Ford and Lincoln Mercury car dealerships
• Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2021). Batcher in the mill room at Bloomfield Plant, 1954-1994
• Rowe v. Bell & Gossett Company (2018). Installed, repaired and serviced boilers and furnaces at 1954-1985
• Whelan v. Armstrong Int'l (2016). Plumber at Franklin Lowe & Sons, 1955-1959
• Buttitta v. Allied Signal, Inc. (2010). Parts picker at General Motors distribution warehouse, Edgewater and Englewood, 1971-1973 summers
• Becker v. Baron Bros. (1994). Automobile mechanic / service station owner at Tenafly Getty, 1967-1985

New York

• Nemeth v. Brenntag N. Am. (2022). Daily user of commercial cosmetic talcum powder at 1960-1971
• Pomponi v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (1st Dept., 2022). Electrician
• Lamenta v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2020). Marble and tile contractor installing vinyl asbestos floor tile at 1970s-mid-1980s
• Peterson v. Vanderbilt Mineral (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2020). Part-time worker in his wife's ceramics business at Lakeside Ceramics, Watertown, 1980-2000
• Richards v. American Biltrite (Matter of Eighth Jud. Dis. Asbestos) (Erie, 2020). Worked for TDH Refrigeration at grocery stores at grocery stores in Buffalo, 1966-1995
• Olson v. Brenntag N. Am., Inc. (2020). Consumer user of talcum powder at late 1950s-2015
• Lattanzio v. Rockwell Automation (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Career electrician at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, 1968-2010
• Rosen v. Fisher Scientific Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Undergraduate chemistry student at Franklin & Marshall College, 1968-1970
• Carlstrand v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Journeyman carpenter and foreman/supervisor at St. Luke's Hospital and Roosevelt Hospital, New York, 1965-1977
• Djokic v. Steel Grip (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Laborer, garbage collector, and lab worker at U.S. Steel facility, Fairless Hills, 1966-1968
• Srica v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Building superintendent at Apartment building on 117th Street, Rockaway, Queens, 1975-1986
• Albin v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Helper to his father on residential side jobs at House on Beach Street, Lindenhurst, about 1953 to the late 1960s or early 1970s
• Linsky v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Interior designer, draftperson and project manager at commercial construction sites, 1978-1983
• Lewis v. QCP (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Plumber at Restaurants and pizzerias with Bakers Pride pizza ovens, New York, 1955-1965
• Gallagher v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Homeowner doing his own kitchen renovation at His home kitchen, Whitestone, 1969
• Leavitt v. Rogers Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Security analyst at Square D plant, Cedar Rapids, 1969-1975
• Linsky v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Interior designer, draftperson and project manager at commercial construction sites, 1978-1985
• Mantovi v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Insurance agent at 1967-1979
• Matter of Marzigliano v. Amchem Prods., Inc. (2019). Worked with his father flipping houses, installing flooring at residential work flipping houses with his father, 1965-1967, 1971-1972
• Juni v. Ford Motor Co. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2018). Auto mechanic servicing Ford vehicles at Orange and Rockland Utilities, 25 years
• Pistone v. American Biltrite, Inc. (2018). Child accompanying her father, a warehouse manager, to work at Redco/Crosslay Building Products warehouse (Crosslay's warehouse), Bayshore, 1980
• Robaey v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2018). Helped husband with engine work on his racing cars at 1973-1986
• Mtr OF Nyc Asbestos Litig. (1st Dept., 2017). Auto mechanic at Orange & Rockland Utilities garages (Nyack garage and a larger garage), 1966-2009
• Bartolone v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2016). Longshoreman (holeman and deckman) at Pier 39 (39th Street Pier), Brooklyn, 1972-1990s
• Juni v. Ford Motor Co. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig.) (2015). Third-class mechanic at Orange and Rockland Nyack garage, 1964
• Relyea v. Borg-Warner Corp. (2015). Part-time bookkeeper at gas station and auto repair shop, 1984 to 1990
• Logan v. AP Moller-Maersk, Inc. (2013). Homeowner doing home renovations at Home at 10 Lincoln Place, New Paltz, New York, 1977-1978
• Macek v. CBS Corporation (2013). Artist working part-time in construction, remodeling residences and other buildings at New York, 1968-1978
• Vega v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2013). Child of a worker who repaired building interiors at Bronx, 1975-1977
• Horn v. A.W. Chesterson Co. (In re Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig.) (2010). Telephone operator

North Carolina

• Walls v. Ford Motor Company (2022). Tractor-trailer fleet mechanic at 1960-2002
• Walls v. Ford Motor Company (2021). The court granted in part and denied in part Pneumo Abex's motion to compel, ordering Plaintiff to give Abex and the joining defendants the grids and test results from her consulting expert's tissue analysis but not his opinions; the motions to join were granted and the parties were told to confer on expert fees.
• Penegar v. United Parcel Service (2018). Feeder driver at UPS Charlotte facility, 1967-1998
• Harris v. Ajax Boiler, Inc. (2014). Insulator helper rehabilitating steam boilers at commercial boiler sites serviced for Cooks Insulation Co., Inc., 1974-1976

Ohio

• Maddy v. Honeywell Internatl., Inc. (8th Appellate District, 2020). Supervisor in the aftermarket parts and service department at Flxible Bus Corporation, Loudonville facility, 1980-1996
• Schwartz v. Honeywell Internatl., Inc. (8th Appellate District, 2016). Child of man doing brake jobs at home at family home garage, 1964-1986