Marinite and the SS Morro Castle Disaster: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve Marinite board: 16 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Marinite and the SS Morro Castle Disaster.

Kentucky

• Louisville Trust Co. v. Johns-Manville Products (1979). Asbestos worker at Queen Products Company, 1957-1967

Louisiana

• Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022). Welder and tacker helper at Avondale Shipyards, Westwego Yard, 1969-1974
• Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022). Welder and tacker helper at Avondale Shipyards (Westwego Yard), 1969-1974
• Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022). Welder and tacker helper at Avondale Shipyards (Westwego Yard), 1969-1974
• Falgout v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2022). Wife laundering husband's work clothes at Avondale Bridge City shipyard, 1965-1979
• Stansbury v. McCARTY Corporation (2022). Employee at Avondale at Avondale Shipyard, New Orleans, 1966 to the late 1970s
• Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2020). Avondale employee at Avondale Shipyards (Westwego Yard), 1969 to 1974
• Jackson v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2020). Employee of Avondale Shipyard at Avondale Shipyard, 1970-1977
• Marsh v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated (2020). Seaman at Lykes vessels built by Avondale (LOUIS LYKES, RUTH LYKES, MASON LYKES, GENEVIEVE LYKES)
• Abadie v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (5th Circuit, 2001). Tacker at Avondale Shipyards (main yard), 1957-58, 1961-76, 1977-79, 1980-81
• Egan v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. (4th Circuit, 1996). Welder at Kaiser-Chalmette plant, 1961-1978

Maryland

• Haney v. 3M Company (2015). Outside machinist at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Shipyard, ore carrier Hull No. 4549, 1956
• Sroka v. Union Carbide Corp. (2015). Union steamfitter and pipefitter at Shipyard sites throughout Baltimore, 1957-1990s

New Jersey

• Thomas-Fish v. Aetna Steel Products Corp. (2018). Employee at NY Ship during construction of the N.S. Savannah at New York Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company facility; N.S. Savannah, Camden, 1960

Washington

• Coogan v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec Inc. (2nd Division, 2020). Specialist at Wagstaff, Inc., Spokane, 1968-1969
• Kalahar v. Alcoa, Inc. (1st Division, 2015). Trainee in potrooms; sheet metal apprentice at Alcoa Wenatchee Works, 1963; 1964-1971