25 results for “Reaction Department”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 8, 1982 · in the opinion
White v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…June 1948 until June 1980). During those years he worked in various departments of Johns-Manville including the transite pipe plant where he was exposed to asbestos fibers and silica, the asbestos shingle plant where he…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982 · in the opinion
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
…and a study to be published by the Labor Department estimates that at least 8,500 workers — perhaps as many as 10,000 — will die each year until the end of this century from asbestos-related…
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Court case · Arizona Supreme Court · November 19, 1982
Nelson v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona (1982)
…The court found that Mrs. Nelson had a meritorious excuse. Doctors and neighbors described an abnormal grief reaction that impaired her understanding, and the delay did not prejudice the carriers. It set aside the award and…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 29, 1988 · in the opinion
Pecorino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…pleaded that the Defendants' breach of these various duties (as well as the fact that these products precipitated great harm which was not a consequence of any unique or unforeseeable reaction of the user) caused Mr…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 27, 1986 · in the opinion
Zurich Ins. Co. v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
…only on a microscopic or subclinical level. Disease is defined as an ongoing process of repair or reaction to injury. The clinicians' definition of "injury" requires that there be some kind of noticeable harm. For example…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · March 5, 1986 · in the opinion
Herber v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…concern. However, based upon the reaction of the Supreme Court of New Jersey when confronted with similar arguments, we do not believe that this concern would deter that Court from embracing the view here expressed. See…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · June 1, 1989 · in the opinion
Carey Canada Inc. v. California Union Ins. Co. (1989)
…she intended to exclude Jim Walter's asbestos exposure. The policy thus written reflects National Union's initial reaction to decline renewal because of the asbestos exposure. It also reflects the fact that Pinkstaff at that…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · May 16, 1985 · in the opinion
Sheppard v. AC & S. Co. (1985)
…in lung or other tissue. The reaction consists of the body "walling off" the foreign matter with fibrous cells such that it eventually produces scar-like tissue which builds up over many years. Forty-Eight Insulations…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · July 31, 1986 · in the opinion
Fischer v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…notion that certain activities that create danger must, regardless of their reasonableness, "pay \[their\] own way in the event \[they\] actually cause\[\] damage\[\] to others." Berg v. Reaction Motors Div., 37 N.J. 396, 410 (1962)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · January 30, 1981 · in the opinion
Keene Corp. v. Insurance Co. of No. America (1981)
…the macrophages die, releasing proteolytic enzymes which further damage the lung. The end result of this tissue injury and reaction to the asbestos fibers is the formation of collagen and scar tissue, which is termed fibrosis. \…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · July 31, 1985 · in the opinion
Lac D'Amiante Du Quebec v. Am. Home Assur. Co. (1985)
…fibers, once inhaled, remain in place in the lung, causing a tissue reaction that is slowly progressive and apparently irreversible. Even if no additional asbestos fibers are inhaled, tissue changes may continue undetected for decades. By…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii · December 9, 1986 · in the opinion
In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases (1986)
…defendants argument is that comment j applies to products that cause allergic reactions.\[4\] Comment j [\1459] applies to common products, such as strawberries, eggs, and possibly cosmetics, that are otherwise safe yet cause allergic reactions…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · January 27, 1984 · in the opinion
Doe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
…Perhaps, even more pertinent is the reaction of the trial courts. In dealing with the precise dilemma faced by appellant herein, the Honorable Lois Forer of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia has stated: The…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · May 1, 1981 · in the opinion
Fusco v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1981)
…972 (5th Cir. 1975) (products liability case time-barred because plaintiff brought suit five years after she had been informed that her physical ailments probably resulted from an adverse reaction to the defendant's product). [\1184…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 15, 1985 · in the opinion
Dartez v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
…to bar the proof for purposes of establishing mental anguish. Dartez's own testimony regarding his emotional reaction to the realization of the risks he now faces and Comstock's testimony as to what he told…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · April 8, 1981 · in the opinion
Porter v. American Optical Corp. (1981)
…Rather, the disease is a culmination of body reaction to the particles inhaled during years of exposure. The disease is slow in nature and may require from ten to twenty years from onset to fully manifest…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 21, 1985 · in the opinion
Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
…and evokes the strongest of emotions. This prejudice must be coupled with the lack of effectiveness of any limiting instruction to eliminate the emotional reaction from the minds of the jury. Looking just at the first…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · September 22, 1987 · in the opinion
In re Asbestos Litigation (1987)
…J., dissenting). Whatever may have been the reaction of the courts in earlier times, we are persuaded that the district court properly considered the common law of New Jersey to be within the scope of the…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 29, 1989 · in the opinion
Fusaro v. Porter-Hayden Co. (1989)
…initial exposure, is characterized by diffuse, interstitial fibrotic pulmonary reaction. The effects of asbestosis are generally cumulative in that the continued exposure to asbestos dust increases both the risk and severity of the disease. The lungs…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · September 29, 1981 · in the opinion
Bunker v. National Gypsum Co. (1981)
…it is progressive and apparently irreversible. As Dr. Selikoff characterizes the medical reaction. "Thus a workman who has been continually exposed to asbestos for, let us say, twenty-five years carries within him a composite biological…