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.

Tennessee

• Ingram v. Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co. (1994). Employee of Union Carbide at K-25 Plant, Oak Ridge, 1973-1979
• Potts v. Celotex Corp. (1990). Insulation worker at 1953-1987
• Potts v. Celotex Corp. (1988). Occupational exposure to asbestos-containing insulation products
• Daniels v. Combustion Engineering, Inc. (Eastern Section, 1978). Professional installer of insulation materials at 1965-1977

Texas

• Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (13th District, 2019). Pipefitter at Union Carbide chemical plant, Brownsville, 1975-1977
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company v. Rogers (5th District, 2017). Tire builder at Goodyear tire plant, Tyler, 1974-1985
• Abutahoun v. Dow Chemical Company (2015). Pipeline insulation worker at Dow Chemical Freeport facility, 1967-1968
• In re EI DU Pont DE Nemours and Company (9th District, 2015). Pipefitter at DuPont Sabine River Works, 1966-1975
• In re Placid Oil Company (2012). Wife who gathered and laundered her husband's work clothing at Black Lake Facility, Natchitoches Parish, 1966-1995
• In re Placid Oil Company (2011). Wife who laundered her husband's work clothes at Black Lake Facility, Natchitoches Parish, 1966-1988
• Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Bostic (5th District, 2010). Welder's assistant at Palestine Contractors, 1977-1978
• Robinson v. Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (2010). Navy service at Navy ships (boiler rooms), 1956-1976
• Uop, LLC v. Kozak (1st District, 2010). Worked at the refinery at Sun Oil refinery, Duncan, several decades
• Union Carbide Corporation v. Smith (1st District, 2009). Pipefitter and general laborer at Union Carbide Texas City plant
• N RE General Electric Company (2008). Mason handling pipe-covering insulation at paper mill, over thirty years
• Satterfield v. Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (3rd District, 2008). Industrial laborer, pipefitter and welder's helper at oil refinery near Monahans; refineries, chemical plants, gas plants and other industrial sites, 1956-1996
• Alcoa, Inc. v. Behringer (5th District, 2007). Wife of Alcoa potroom worker, laundered his work clothes at Alcoa Rockdale plant, 1953-1955, 1957-1959
• Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (14th District, 2007). Wife of machinist who laundered his work clothes at Exxon Baytown refinery, 1942-1972
• Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. Stephens (2007). Navy service at 1944-1946
• Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Stephens (1st District, 2007). Navy service at 1944-1946
• Robinson v. Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (2006). Boiler tender at 1956, for approximately twenty years
• Brown & Root, Inc. v. Shelton (12th District, 2003). Thirty-year employee of the Kelly-Springfield tire plant at Kelly-Springfield tire plant, Tyler, 1969-1971
• Brown & Root, Inc. v. Moore (6th District, 2002). Laborer at Lone Star Steel, 1977-1985
• Madden v. Able Supply Co. (2002). Navy service member at USS Wren
• Pittsburgh Corning Corp. v. Walters (13th District, 1999). Navy enlistee overseeing nuclear submarine construction at Navy nuclear submarine construction, 1960s
• White v. CBS Corp. (3rd District, 1999). Maintenance worker at Seaholm power plant, Austin, 1952-1962
• Fuller-Austin Insulation Co. v. Bilder (9th District, 1998). Stepdaughter of an insulator installer; washed his work clothes at Ray Hardy's home, 1956-1960
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Malone (1998). The Texas Supreme Court affirmed both courts of appeals' judgments for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, holding any error in excluding OCF's mitigation evidence harmless and that the punitive awards, alone or aggregated with prior paid awards, did not violate due process.
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Sitz (11th District, 1998). Seamstress at clothing manufacturing plant at Vernon, Texas, 1964 to 1970
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Keeton (3rd District, 1996). Beginning in the 1940s
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Wasiak (3rd District, 1996). The court affirmed the trial court's judgment for the plaintiffs (about $1.8 million compensatory and $3.7 million punitive damages) against Owens-Corning, overruling all eleven points of error.
• Click v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1995). Insulator / pipe fitter at Marathon Oil Co., 1944-1976
• Boyett v. Keene Corp. (1993). Marine engineer at Hoosier State (ship), 1955-1967
• Keene Corp. v. Gardner (5th District, 1992). Childersburg powder plant, 1955-1957
• Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (6th District, 1991). Insulator or maintenance mechanic performing insulation repair work at Texas Eastman, Longview, 1957 onward
• Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1990). Various crafts at refinery and chemical plant worksites at oil and chemical refineries and other worksites in the Beaumont area
• Carter v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1983). Rigger at Consolidated Shipyard, Orange, 1942 to 1946
• Migues v. Nicolet Industries, Inc. (1980). Insulation worker
• Mooney v. Fibreboard Corp. (1980). Insulator at 1940 to 1970

Utah

• Boynton v. Kennecott Utah Copper, LLC (2021). Wife of a laborer and electrician who laundered his work clothes at Kennecott smelter, 1961-1965
• Luckau v. Board of Review (1992). Boiler room worker who removed and installed asbestos pipe lining at Boiler room in Colorado, early 1960s
• Tisco Intermountain v. Industrial Com'n of Utah (1987). Insulation mechanic at 1947-1971

Virginia

• Gehant v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation (2022). Boiler technician at USS America, 1967-1970
• Wilson v. AC&S, Inc. (2015). Shipfitter, electrician, draftsman, and engineer at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 1963-2001
• Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Minton (2013). Ship repair staff supervisor at Exxon vessels repaired at the Shipyard, Newport News, 1966-1977
• Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC v. Little (2005). Machine installation worker at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, 1961-1963, 1968 onward
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Watson (1992). Pipe coverer at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, aircraft carrier America, 1964
• Roller v. Basic Const. Co. (1989). Carpenter and later carpenter foreman at Newport News, 1949-1977
• Joyce v. AC & s., Inc. (1984). Mechanic at DuPont plant, Martinsville, 1952-1955 and 1964-1972
• Locke v. Johns-Manville (1981). Industrial electrician at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company (U.S.S. Newport News cruiser construction), 1948-1949