155 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 8
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Company document · 1988
Owens-Illinois's Responses to Plaintiffs' First Interrogatories in Bexley v. Armstrong World Industries (1988)
What it shows Owens-Illinois points to the Saranac Laboratory papers but says the knowledge of the day was "a recognized safe exposure level" (Nos. 13, 19); it says it had no reason to believe Kaylo…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
Ten insulation workers or their survivors sued makers of asbestos insulation in federal court in Wisconsin. Two of the workers died of mesothelioma, and the other eight have asbestosis. The defendants moved for summary judgment, arguing the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 9, 1981
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1981)
…Keene, Armstrong Cork, Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois and the third-party defendants, holding that the Wisconsin limitations period runs from the plaintiff's last exposure to any asbestos-containing product, and it set a schedule for…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · February 27, 1989
Fisher v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1989)
Charles Fisher and his wife sued several asbestos product companies in 1985, claiming his exposure to asbestos had caused asbestosis, cancer, and possibly mesothelioma. The parties settled for $60,000, and the Fishers signed a release of all claims,…
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Court case · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · August 24, 1989
District of Columbia v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation (1989)
The District of Columbia sued thirty-seven miners, manufacturers, sellers and distributors of asbestos. It sought removal costs and other damages for asbestos in roughly 2,400 public buildings, including schools, libraries, hospitals, government…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · February 27, 1986
Kisor v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
The Ninth Circuit reversed the judgment entered on a jury verdict for Owens-Illinois and remanded for a new trial, ruling for Kisor's estate, because the district court wrongly admitted evidence of the manufacturer's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 15, 1981
Tysenn v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
The district court granted Owens-Illinois summary judgment on Veronica Tysenn's fear-of-disease claim, on Eagle-Picher's and Pacor's cross-claims, and on Anthony Tysenn's claims to the extent the Pennsylvania…
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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 · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' common law punitive damages claims against the asbestos defendants, including Celotex, because those claims did not survive the…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1989
Board of Education v. A, C & S, Inc. (1989)
Thirty-four Illinois school districts, including the Chicago Board of Education, sued 78 asbestos makers, distributors and installers. They sought the cost of inspecting, repairing and removing asbestos-containing materials in their buildings, which the Asbestos…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · September 18, 1989
IN the Matter of Estate OF Foster (1989)
Kathryn Koehler, personal representative of Edwin Foster's estate, sued asbestos insulation manufacturers, including Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois, alleging improper design and lack of warnings. Foster developed mesothelioma, which the estate attributed to asbestos exposure at…
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Court case · Ohio Supreme Court · October 14, 1987
Goldman v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1987)
The executrix of Roy Goldman's estate sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos companies over Goldman's death. Goldman had worked at the Sherlock Bakery in Toledo, Ohio. The plaintiff could not identify which products at the bakery contained…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 5, 1985
Rosenberg v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
Stanley Rosenberg worked at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn from 1961 to 1965 and was exposed to asbestos products there. He was diagnosed with asbestosis in 1976 and malignant mesothelioma in 1978. He and his wife sued Celotex in New York…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · March 28, 1986
Roehling v. Nat. Gypsum Co. Gold Bond Bldg. (1986)
The Fourth Circuit reversed summary judgment for National Gypsum and Owens-Illinois on the Huntley Power Station exposure and remanded for trial, but affirmed summary judgment for Celotex and on the DuPont and Ford plant exposures…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 27, 1988
Blazek v. Nicolet, Inc. (1988)
…The appellate court disagreed. It said the Illinois Supreme Court had not defined a reasonable time and that the legislature was best placed to set one. Her suit came about seven years after the statute took…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 25, 1982
Froud v. Celotex Corporation (1982)
…dismissal of the punitive damages counts and remanded, ruling for the plaintiff administrators and against the asbestos defendants including Celotex. Under the Illinois Supreme Court's National Bank decision, the Survival Act neither authorizes nor prohibits…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan · April 25, 1989
Anjeski v. Keene Bldg. & Development Co. (1989)
The district court granted summary judgment to defendants Keene, Celotex and Owens-Illinois, ruling that plaintiff Irene Anjeski's sole product identification deposition could not support a jury finding that her husband was exposed to their…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · September 22, 1987
In re Asbestos Litigation (1987)
…which was a loss for the manufacturers (Raymark, Owens-Illinois, GM and others) and a win for the plaintiffs. Common law decisions of a state's highest court are subject to equal protection review under the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · March 13, 1989
Miller v. Celotex Corp. (1989)
…Eagle-Picher, Keene and Owens-Illinois because plaintiff Raymond Miller's asbestos claim was filed after Colorado's three-year limitations period expired. Under Colorado's products liability statute, a claim arises when the plaintiff knows…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · April 27, 1989
Sofie v. Fibreboard Corp. (1989)
Austin Sofie, who was 67 and suffering from mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure during his career as a pipefitter, and his wife Marcia sued Fibreboard and other asbestos manufacturers. A jury found the defendants at fault and awarded…