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  1. Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1986

    BNA Occupational Safety & Health Reporter, Current Report: Court Review Sought of Final Asbestos Rules; Rader OSHRC Nomination Defeated (1986)

    …1986. One article reports that two AFL-CIO departments and the Asbestos Information Association petitioned federal appeals courts to review OSHA's final asbestos standards for general industry and construction. A second article reports the Senate…

  2. Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1980

    James T. Schirripa, "Evaluating the Cancer Risk of Asbestos," Occupational Health and Safety (July/August 1980)

    …Inc. study of airborne asbestos fiber in over 100 general occupancy buildings. It says the study's time-to-tumor calculations found the cancer risk negligible and that disturbing or removing asbestos insulation raises the risk…

  3. Medical study · Medical research · 1986

    Dust levels in an asbestos-cement factory: problem solving

    …Isasbest Ltd., an asbestos-cement pipe and sheet factory in Nahariya, Israel, written by the company's general manager. The plant employed approximately 340 workers, and its products averaged 90% cement and 10% asbestos. The article…

  4. Medical study · Medical research · 1986

    Interaction of asbestos, age, and cigarette smoking in producing radiographic evidence of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis

    …populations with different levels of exposure to asbestos and with different cigarette smoking histories shows that smoking in the general population does not produce pulmonary fibrosis recognizable on chest radiography. In the general population of Michigan…

  5. Medical study · Medical research · 1983

    Standards for asbestos exposure

    …not a research study, and it reported no data. It was written by the Director General of the Asbestos International Association in London. It replied to a Lancet 'Round the World' report (Dec 3, p 1298)…

  6. Medical study · Medical research · 1986

    Value of the lateral view in diagnosing pleural plaques

    …assess the value of the lateral view in the diagnosis of pleural plaques, 2018 chest roentgenograms from the general population were scrutinized for such plaques. The lateral and posterior-anterior (PA) views were read separately and…

  7. Medical study · Medical research · 1981

    Asbestos exposure in the Monfalcone area. A social and pathological study of 100 autopsy cases

    This study examined 100 consecutive autopsies (73 males and 27 females, aged 39 to 91) performed between October 1979 and June 1980 at the general hospital of Monfalcone, an Italian town with large shipyards. The authors…

  8. Medical study · Medical research · 1986

    Causation and financial compensation

    …It is not a new study. The author outlined general steps for judging whether the environment plays a role in human disease. The author then described two methods developed with colleagues for workers occupationally exposed to…

  9. Company document · JM Document Review · January 31, 1983

    Lois Gaul's Johns-Manville Memo on the Rhode Island Medical Journal (1983)

    …1983, from Lois Gaul to D. H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, with copies to K. Richman and B. Diemer, reporting on her review of the Rhode Island Medical Journal from 1938 to 1969…

  10. Court case · Washington Supreme Court · January 10, 1985

    White v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)

    …barred. The court answered yes. Washington's statutes do not say when a claim accrues, so the general discovery rule applies. A survivor takes the decedent's rights, including the benefit of the discovery rule. Whether…

  11. Court case · Washington Supreme Court · October 31, 1989

    Falk v. Keene Corp. (1989)

    …by risk-utility balancing and consumer expectations, not ordinary common law negligence; instructions letting the jury apply general negligence instructions to it are reversible error. Design Defect; Trial Procedure and Discovery Navy service 1947 to 1953

  12. Court case · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · December 19, 1980

    Powell v. State Workmen's Compensation Com'r (1980)

    …Code § 23-4-1 even though it also occurs in the general public, and the claimant need not prove an intermediate occupational disease such as asbestosis or negate all non-occupational causes such as smoking. Causation…

  13. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · June 17, 1985

    ACandS, Inc. v. Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co. (1985)

    …over asbestos exposure. It sued its liability insurers, Aetna and Travelers, for a declaration of their obligations under comprehensive general liability policies. The district court granted ACandS partial summary judgment, and the insurers appealed. The Third…

  14. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · February 27, 1986

    Kisor v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)

    …in the 1940s and 1950s, and argued that it could not be liable for a danger it did not know about. The jury returned a general verdict for Owens-Illinois. The Ninth Circuit, applying Washington law…

  15. Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 8, 1987

    Swogger v. Waterman SS Corp. (1987)

    …contribution and indemnity are not barred by New York's General Obligations Law. Maritime Law and Navy Ships Worksites: engine rooms of some 13 vessels marine engineer engine rooms of some 13 vessels more than 35…

  16. Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 28, 1984

    BD. OF Educ. v. Ambach (1984)

    …vacuuming dust did not stop fibers from entering the air. It also held the Commissioner's general powers over education law let him enforce the Act. The court granted summary judgment to the Commissioner and denied…

  17. Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 14, 1983

    Skip Fordyce, Inc. v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1983)

    …and multiple-level hearsay from a doctor's report, a general pamphlet and an unsupported 'admission' that brake linings contain asbestos does not supply it. Medical opinions based on statistical studies can be substantial evidence of…

  18. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · May 7, 1986

    Silver v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)

    …§ 1-50(6), barred the claim because his last exposure was in 1961. The Fourth Circuit agreed that the statute applies to wrongful death actions in general. It held, however, that the statute did not apply…

  19. Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · October 3, 1989

    Swogger v. Waterman SS Corp. (1989)

    …on the high seas, admiralty law rather than state law applies to the related third-party contribution and indemnity claims, so New York General Obligations Law § 15-108 does not bar contribution. Fault, Apportionment and Settlement…

  20. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 4, 1980

    A. Mayer-Pareyn to R. B. Von Wald and J. A. Brown on the Health and Safety History of J-M do Brazil (1980)

    …insulation workers at the Rio shipyards wearing respirators when applying material in confined spaces. However, this is not the general practice on insulation jobs." On page 11, the author states that W.B. Reitze pointed out…