Asbestos insulation: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve pipe and block insulation: 999 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Asbestos insulation.

Other federal courts

• Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. v. Faulk (2000). Shipfitter at U.S.S. Flint, Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp., October or November 1996
• Harder v. ACandS (1999). General maintenance worker at Iowa power plants with GE steam turbines, 1956-1989
• Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1998). Insulation and construction workers (insulators, machinists, pipefitters, carpenters, etc.) at Twenty-two worksites (refineries, shipyards, chemical plants, other industrial facilities and a power plant), 1942-1982
• LaBounty v. Coughlin (1998). Inmate at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, 1991-92
• Metro-North Commuter R. Co. v. Buckley (1997). Pipefitter at Grand Central Terminal steam tunnels, New York, 1985-1988
• Consorti v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1995). Pipe covering insulator at Veteran Pipe Covering, 1960-1963, 1970-1978
• Dunn v. Hovic (1993). Worker at HOVIC at HOVIC (Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp.)
• Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993). Tireworker at Mohawk Tire and Rubber Company plant, West Helena, 1963-79
• Johnstone v. American Oil Co. (1993). Jones Act seaman at Four merchant vessels built during World War II, 1964 and 1967-1978
• Miller v. American President Lines, Ltd. (1993). Seaman: maintenance reefer, oiler, electrician and wiper at defendants' ships, 1944-1951 and 1953-1969
• Becht v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1992). Insulator at Louisville Insulation Company (LISCO), 1953-1980
• Borman v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1992). Insulator at 1956-1987
• Rohrbaugh v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1992). Wife of an insulator; laundered his work clothes at before 1969
• Rotondo v. Keene Corp. (1992). Tacker and welder at Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard (ship Monticello), 1942-43
• Tragarz v. Keene Corp. (1992). Sheet metal worker at Chicago Civic Center, 1963-1965
• Dunn v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass (Division of St. Croix, 1991). Pipe insulation installer at Hess Oil Refinery, 1966 onward
• Sawyer v. Fibreboard Corp. (In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases) (1991). Sailor involved in overhaul of warships, sweeping up dust at Navy warships Buckley, Maddox, Topeka and Rathburne
• O'brien v. National Gypsum Co. (1991). Apprentice electrician at Brooklyn Navy Yard, May 1944-May 1945
• Slaughter v. Southern Talc Co. (1991). Plant employee at General Tire plant, Waco
• Vaughn v. Farrell Lines, Inc. (1991). Fireman/watertender, engineman, oiler and wiper at boilers and engine rooms of vessels owned by U.S. flag shipowners
• George v. Celotex Corp. (1990). Purchasing agent at Robert A. Keasbey Company warehouse, 1931-1975
• Hoffman v. Allied Corp. (1990). Lathe operator in the ordnance repair shop at Brooklyn Naval Shipyard, World War II, approximately 14 months
• Johnson v. Celotex Corp. (1990). Electrician's helper at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1942-1945
• King v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1990). The Fifth Circuit affirmed the judgment for the plaintiffs against Celotex, including the 55% apportionment of causation and the punitive damages award, rejecting Celotex's challenges to three evidentiary rulings.
• Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990). Member of the service crew at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. plant, Clinton, Iowa, 1951-1982
• White v. Celotex Corp. (1990). Remodeling buildings damaged by flood or fire at 1957-1983
• Dube v. Pittsburgh Corning (1989). Daughter of a shipyard pipe insulator (exposed to dust on father's work clothes) at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, 1959-1973
• Kaiser v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1989). Boiler repairman / boiler technician at Navy destroyers, 1948-1952
• Bauer v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988). Sheet-metal worker at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1943-1966
• Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. US (1988). Sheetmetal worker at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 1941-1979
• Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1988). Pipefitter (earlier pipe-installer trainee and lay-out man) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, 1941-1945/46, and about a year from late 1946
• Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988). Chipper at Alabama shipyard, over thirty years, until 1982
• Dykes v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986). Utility mechanic at Union Carbide, mid-1960s-1967
• Joyce v. AC and S., Inc. (1986). Insulator at DuPont Martinsville plant, 1952-1955 and 1964-1972
• Kisor v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986). Insulator at five-hundred-odd West Coast job sites, late 1940's and 1950's
• Lohrmann v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1986). Pipefitter at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Key Highway shipyard, Baltimore, 1940-1979
• Roehling v. Nat. Gypsum Co. Gold Bond Bldg. (1986). Pipefitter at Huntley Power Station, Buffalo, July 1948 to December 1948
• Silver v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986). Insulator, brick mason and pipe coverer at 1941-1961
• Dartez v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985). Insulator at 1957-1966
• Graffagnino v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985). Insulator at Texaco, Inc.'s Port Arthur refinery, about forty years
• Rocco v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985). Employee at naval shipyards at New York and Philadelphia Naval shipyards, 1943-1981
• Adams v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984). Commercial insulator at 1951-1956, 1960-1966
• Halphen v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984). Employee of insulation subcontractor at Consolidated Shipyard, Orange, 1944
• Hansen v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1984). Pipefitter at Todd Shipyards, 1940-1976
• Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984). Sheet-metal mechanic, later work leaderman/supervisor at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, Pascagoula, 1953-1971
• Lowe v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, A Div. of Litton (1984). Shipyard employees at Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard, Pascagoula
• Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982). Insulators, pipefitters, carpenters, and other factory workers
• Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982). Insulation workers
• Clutter v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1981). Asbestos insulation mechanic at 1939-1973
• Fusco v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1981). Pipe-coverer at Long Beach Naval Shipyards, 1957-1970