13 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1989
Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. (1989)
Two long-time employees of the American Cyanamid plant, Robert Sholtis and Sam Lee, sued asbestos manufacturers and suppliers. Sholtis died at 65 of pleural asbestosis. He had worked as a mill operator, maintenance laborer, pipefitter's helper and…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 15, 1988
Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988)
…award, but modified the judgment to raise Raymark's share from 9.09% to 27.27% of damages because Raymark failed to prove fault by settling defendants Owens-Illinois and Armstrong. Under Texas comparative causation (Duncan)…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · April 13, 1989
Kaiser v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1989)
Sol Kaiser, a Navy veteran, and his wife and children sued several asbestos manufacturers in federal court in Puerto Rico for harm from his asbestos exposure. Kaiser served from 1948 to 1952, repairing insulated pipes on destroyers, where he cut and…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · June 13, 1985
Celotex Corp. v. Copeland (1985)
Lee Loyd Copeland and his wife sued sixteen asbestos product manufacturers. Copeland worked as a boilermaker from 1942 to 1975 on 50 to 100 jobs, and he developed asbestosis and an asbestos-related cancer. He said the products were mostly insulation…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 24, 1988
Bauer v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…Armstrong, Eagle-Picher, Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning). A denial of a new trial motion based on the verdict being against the weight of the evidence is not reviewable on appeal, and a judgment n…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · February 12, 1987
Rice v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1987)
Ruby Rice sued eighteen companies on behalf of the estate and heirs of her late husband, Norman E. Rice, who developed mesothelioma and died. She alleged he was exposed to asbestos products made or sold by the defendants and that they failed to warn…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · January 31, 1986
Knauer v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
George Knauer and his wife Ann sued thirteen asbestos manufacturers in federal court in Maryland in December 1980, alleging he developed mesothelioma from exposure to defendants' asbestos products. He died on May 1, 1982. On May 6, 1985, five days…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · July 8, 1988
Knox v. AC & S, Inc. (1988)
Mona Knox, administratrix of the estate of her husband Darrel Knox, sued AC & S and many other makers of asbestos insulation after he died in April 1986 of mesothelioma. He had worked as an insulation mechanic and was exposed to the defendants'…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · February 5, 1986
Jenkins v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
Wanda Jenkins and other plaintiffs with asbestos-related personal injury suits pending in the Eastern District of Texas sued thirteen companies. Ten of the plaintiffs asked the court to certify a class of all such pending cases. They wanted to…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 9, 1988
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1988)
Five men, William Hardy, Richard Smith, James Dartez, Cecil Overstreet and John Burke, each sued several asbestos product makers in federal court in Texas, seeking damages for asbestos exposure. The cases were consolidated for trial. The jury was…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 29, 1988 · in the opinion
Pecorino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…CELOTEX CORPORATION EAGLE-PICHER INDUSTRIES, INC. FIBREBOARD CORPORATION GAF CORPORATION ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. KEENE CORPORATION NICOLET INDUSTRIES, INC. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC. PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION H.K. PORTER COMPANY, INC. RAYMARK INDUSTRIES…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia · July 19, 1984
Joyce v. AC & s., Inc. (1984)
The court granted summary judgment to Celotex and the joining defendants (Owens-Corning, Armstrong, Eagle-Picher, Keene, Pittsburgh Corning), holding all of plaintiff Joyce's asbestos-related claims barred by Virginia's two-year statute of…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · March 17, 1986
In re Moorenovich (1986)
Several people who say they were exposed to asbestos, along with the estate of one of them, brought consolidated cases in the federal district court in Maine against many asbestos product companies. Before trial, the defendants asked the court to…