Crocidolite: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve crocidolite: 47 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Crocidolite.

California

• Phipps v. Copeland Corporation LLC (2nd Appellate District, 7th Division, 2021). Navy service at U.S.S. Porterfield, 1966-1969
• Mata v. Liberty Utilities (park Water) Corp. (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2020). Son of Park Water employee Francisco Mata, who installed and repaired meters, hydrants and pipes at Park Water, Downey, 1970-1989
• Burch v. Certainteed Corporation (1st Appellate District, 4th Division, 2019). Installer of underground A/C pipe at J.C. Plumbing, 1970-1978
• Baeza v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 4th Division, 2016). Child of plant worker (father Ruben Baeza) at Johns-Manville pipe manufacturing plant, Long Beach, 1970-1981
• Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016). Warehouseman and truck driver at Pyramid Pipe & Supply Co., 1969-1979
• Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (1st Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2015). Crane operator at early 1980's
• Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2014). Construction contractor at Construction projects, 1960s-1970s
• Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2014). General contractor at Construction projects, 1960s and 1970s
• Lovelace v. Pneumo Abex LLC (3rd Appellate District, 2014). Son of a Johns-Manville employee at Johns-Manville plant
• Melendrez v. Superior Court OF State OF California (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2013). The Court of Appeal granted the plaintiffs' writ petition, directing the trial court to vacate its orders deeming SECO's discovery responses verified and to determine who holds SECO's attorney-client privilege, so SECO loses on the verification issue and the matter is remanded.
• Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 1st Division, 2013). Employee who handled Transite pipe at Pyramid Pipe & Supply, Canoga Park, 1969 through the late 1970s
• Wilson v. Certainteed Corporation (1st Appellate District, 1st Division, 2010). Longshoreman at Ned Lloyd Lines piers 19 and 23, Piers 26 and 30, San Francisco; Encinal Terminals, Alameda, 1959-1994
• Mahoney v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (1st Appellate District, 1st Division, 2009). Bookkeeper involved in construction at family construction business, South Lake Tahoe, 1971-1979
• Ransom v. Calaveras Asbestos, Ltd. (2nd Appellate District, 5th Division, 2009). Maintenance worker, then laborer laying, cutting and milling pipe at Doty Brothers pipeline work for Palos Verdes Water Service Company, 1958-1971
• Quarles v. Advocate Mines Limited (1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 2006). Laborer, helper and pipe fitter at W.M. Lyles construction company job sites, Fresno, 1970-1985

Connecticut

• Dusto v. Rogers Corporation (2023). Extrusion operator, premix operator, blender operator at Rogers Corporation facility in Manchester, 1970-2002

Florida

• DeLisle v. Crane Co. (2018). Smoker of Kent cigarettes at 1952-1956
• Crane Co. v. DeLisle (4th District, 2016). Cigarette smoker at 1952-1956

Illinois

• Quirin v. Lorillard Tobacco Company (2015). Navy service member at 1953 to early 1960s
• Quirin v. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (2014). Navy sailor aboard a fleet tanker at USS Tolovana, Long Beach, 1954-1957
• WR Grace & Co. v. Csr Ltd. (3rd District, 1996). Worked on several job sites at job sites in central Illinois

Kentucky

• McGuire v. Lorillard Tobacco Company (2014). Employee at Lorillard's cigarette plant at Lorillard's Louisville plant, 1953-1954
• Certainteed Corporation v. Dexter (2010). Pipefitter at 1963-1964

Louisiana

• Craft v. Ports America Gulfport, Inc. (4th Circuit, 2019). Longshoreman; cargo handler and winch operator at Port of New Orleans riverfront, 1953-1969
• Oddo v. Asbestos Corporation Ltd. (4th Circuit, 2015). Resident at 518 Marion Avenue driveway made of Johns-Manville fill, 1972-1973
• Vedros v. Grumman (2015). Resident at Westbank of Jefferson Parish
• Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999). Cigarette smoker at 1952-1959
• Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1st Circuit, 1998). Cigarette smoker at 1952-1956

Maryland

• Mack Trucks, Inc. v. Coates (2018). Pipe layer at Ralph Marcantoni & Sons Construction, Baltimore, first three to four years from 1974
• Csr, Limited v. Taylor (2009). Stevedore at Port of Baltimore, 1942-1983
• Taylor v. Csr Limited (2008). Stevedore at Port of Baltimore, 1942-1983
• Hollingsworth v. Connor (2000). Cigarette smoker at 1952-1956
• Ford Motor v. Wood (1998). Longshoreman at 1942-1947

New York

• Zicklin v. Bergdorf Goodman Inc. (2022). Cigarette smoker
• Leavitt v. Rogers Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Security analyst at Square D plant, Cedar Rapids, 1969-1975
• Prokocimer v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2018). Cigarette smoker at 1950's
• Correnti v. Bertram D. Stone, Inc. (2014). Cigarette smoker at 1952 to 1972

Ohio

• DiCENZO v. A-Best Prods. Co., Inc. (8th Appellate District, 2007). Laborer to tin line operator, tin plating department at Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel, Yorkville plant, 1973-1995

Other federal courts

• Braun v. Lorillard Inc. (1996). Cigarette smoker at 1950s
• Lesnick v. Hollingsworth & Vose Co. (1994). Smoker of Kent cigarettes at 1952-1956

Pennsylvania

• Schrader v. Ameron International Corporation (2020). Millwright at E.I. Nemours DuPont Edgemoor Facility, 1975-1983
• Neal v. Carey Canadian Mines, Ltd. (1982). Personnel manager at Philip Carey manufacturing plant, Plymouth Meeting, 1926-1962

Texas

• Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (13th District, 2019). Pipefitter at Union Carbide chemical plant, Brownsville (acid unit), 1975-1977

Washington

• Klopman-Baerselman v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019). Laborer at Tektronix, Beaverton, 1967-1998
• Noll v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (1st Division, 2019). Worked with asbestos-cement pipe on construction sites at construction sites in Washington, late 1970's
• Barabin v. AstenJOHNSON (2018). Papermaker at Crown-Zellerbach Camas Mill, 1968-2001
• Noll v. American Biltrite Inc. (2017). Construction worker cutting asbestos-cement pipe at Port Orchard, 1977-1979