15 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York · May 21, 1990
Kreppein v. Owens-Illinois (In re New York Asbestos Litigation, 1990)
The court granted Owens-Illinois' motion for reconsideration, held the widow's claims against it barred by collateral estoppel, and vacated the judgment as to it; it denied the JNOV, new trial and remittitur motions of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · January 31, 1990
Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990)
Six longtime workers at the E.I. du Pont plant in Clinton, Iowa, and their wives sued makers of asbestos insulation products. The workers said they were exposed through insulation on pipes and boilers, and in some cases through cleaning out machine…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · August 8, 1991
Kulzer v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corp. (1991)
The Second Circuit reversed the judgment for the plaintiff against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded with instructions to dismiss the complaint as time-barred, because the revival statute's exception applied. Under New York's 1986…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 14, 1994
Coates v. AC and S, Inc. (1994)
…admitted the OSHA and EPA publications, and denied Owens-Corning's motions on third-party medical payments, mental anguish and reverse bifurcation. Pre-comparative-fault law and equal ("by heads") apportionment governed the wrongful death claim…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 14, 1995
Kirk v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1995)
…judgment for plaintiff Sarah Kirk against Owens-Corning and remanded for a new trial on damages and liability, because the district court refused to strike two biased jurors for cause, impairing Owens-Corning's peremptory challenges…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 12, 1996
Nelson v. Keene Corp. (1996)
Elda Nelson and Patricia Dunning sued asbestos companies after Robert Nelson, a former asbestos worker, and Colette Fitzsimmons, a teacher exposed at her school, developed mesothelioma and died in 1987. In April 1987 the plaintiffs had opened Rule…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · August 29, 1990
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1990)
The Court of Special Appeals reversed the punitive damages awards for the Knuckles estate against Eagle-Picher and Owens-Illinois and affirmed all other judgments for the plaintiffs against the manufacturer and installer defendants. A jury…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 10, 1992
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992)
…and it ordered a new trial on punitive damages against Owens-Illinois and Eagle-Picher. A nonmanufacturing supplier-installer of asbestos is held to a 'should have known' standard in a negligent failure-to-warn claim…
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Court case · Colorado Supreme Court · September 16, 1991
Miller v. Armstrong World Industries (1991)
Raymond Miller sued several asbestos product makers in federal court in 1987. He said exposure to their products caused asbestosis. The dissent says he worked as an insulator in New Jersey from 1946 to 1950. He also sought damages for increased risk…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · July 21, 1992
Kreppein v. Celotex Corp. (1992)
Mary Kreppein sued several asbestos product makers, including Celotex as successor to Philip Carey Manufacturing, over the death of her husband Gustave Kreppein. He was diagnosed with asbestosis and mesothelioma in 1981 and died about three and a…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · September 21, 1995
Baumgart v. Keene Bldg. Products Corp. (1995)
Mildred Baumgart sued makers and suppliers of asbestos products after her husband, Anthony Baumgart, died of mesothelioma on March 31, 1985. He had worked for Witco Chemical Corporation from 1950 to 1980 and was allegedly exposed to…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · July 20, 1992
Marinari v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1992)
Anthony Marinari worked as a laborer at Philip Carey Manufacturing in 1928-1929 and at Alan Wood Steel from 1937 to 1972, and was allegedly exposed to asbestos dust at both. A 1983 chest x-ray showed asymptomatic pleural thickening, and he did not…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 14, 1990 · in the opinion
Fagiola v. National Gypsum Co. AC & S., Inc. (1990)
…The Flintkote Co., Carey Canada, Inc., Fibreboard Corp., Rock Wool Manufacturing Co., Inc., Owens- Illinois, Inc., Turner & Newall, PLC., individually and as successor to Keasbey-Mattison Corp., United States Gypsum Co., Dana Corp., individually and as…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio · December 4, 1995 · in the opinion
In re Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. (1995)
…future claims. In arriving at his estimate of the number of future claims, Peterson focused on the period 1991-1995. That period shows an increase in filings for OCF (Owens-Corning-Fiberglass), UNR, and Manville. Particularly…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · February 20, 1990 · in the opinion
Grispo v. Eagle-Picher Indus. (In re Joint E. & S. Dist. New York Asbestos Lit., 1990)
…Keeton, D. Dobbs, R. Keeton & D. Owen, Prosser and Keeton on Torts § 99, at 695-98 (5th ed. 1984). The plaintiffs' claims concededly are governed by New York law where federal law does not apply and…