39 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · January 22, 1997
Sharpless v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1997)
The trial court granted compulsory nonsuits for defendants Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Uniroyal and Harbison Walker Refractories against plaintiffs Dallas Sharpless and Richard Wilson, and issued this opinion explaining the nonsuits for their appeals. In a strict…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 13, 1995
Higgins v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded for a new trial in favor of plaintiff Higgins, and dismissed Owens-Corning's cross appeal on the medical monitoring award as moot. A…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 11, 1998
McCauley v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Bradley McCauley sued Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning and other companies in May 1993, alleging asbestos-related diseases from occupational exposure during work from 1947 to 1986 in construction, as a laborer and plumber. A 1985…
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Court case · Wisconsin Supreme Court · October 27, 1999
Sopha v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's order dismissing the Sophas' mesothelioma action against Owens-Corning and the other defendants as time-barred, and remanded for further proceedings. A diagnosis of a non-malignant…
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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 · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 31, 1996
McNeil v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1996)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order to the extent it allowed a new trial on the lung cancer claim (a win for Owens Corning), and affirmed a new trial limited to the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of the Virgin Islands · September 27, 1991
Dunn v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass (1991)
The court denied Owens-Corning's motion for JNOV and for a new trial on liability, but ordered a new trial unless plaintiff Dunn accepted a reduction of compensatory damages from $1.3 million to $500…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 21, 1995
Jadlowski v. Owens Corning (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the punitive damages award (as remitted to $2,500,000 from a $15,000,000 jury verdict) against Owens-Corning and remanded for a new trial on punitive damages, rejecting the plaintiff…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 26, 1999 · in the opinion
Howard v. Owens Corning (1999)
…1\] Howard's original personal injury complaint sued respondent Owens Corning under the company's former name of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation. Throughout this litigation, the parties have referred to Owens Corning under its new name…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 1998
Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (1998)
The court affirmed the jury verdicts for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas (Kaylo insulation) and Rock Wool (One Shot cement), reversed the judgments against Garlock, A.W. Chesterton and Flexitallic, affirmed the judgments against Abadie…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · August 31, 1995
Brewer v. Fibreboard Corp. (1995)
…$21,000 actually received, and remanded for recalculation of the judgment against Fibreboard, Owens-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh Corning at $290,643.56, a result favoring the Brewers. Under RCW 4.22.060, a settlement found…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for all defendants (Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard, Keene, Anchor, Chesterton, Garlock, John Crane, Rexnord and Georgia Talc) against the ten Mohawk tire plant workers, because the workers lacked sufficient…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 1993
Giffear v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1993)
William Giffear and his wife Paula sued asbestos product makers for physical injury and for fear and increased risk of cancer. Mr. Giffear said he was exposed to asbestos in the Navy starting in 1964, then as a plumber for about ten years, then as a…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · May 18, 1990
Howell v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
Joseph Howell and his wife sued Celotex, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh-Corning, GAF, Keene and Owens-Corning in federal court in Pennsylvania over asbestos-related harm. Howell had pleural thickening, a scarring of the lung lining linked…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · June 23, 1994
Busfield v. AC & S., Inc. (1994)
Alva Busfield and his wife sued many asbestos companies. A jury found that Busfield had an asbestos-related disease, asymptomatic asbestosis or pleural thickening, but that it caused him no harm. The opinion does not describe where or how he was…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · December 9, 1992 · in the opinion
Taliferro v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1992)
…Corporation Garlock, Inc., H.K. Porter Co., Inc., Southern Textile Corporation, Keene Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Owens- Illinois, Inc., Pacor, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Unarco Industries, Inc., Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., Fibreboard Corporation, Appellees…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 25, 1993 · in the opinion
Dempsey v. Pacor, Inc. (1993)
…Owens- Illinois Glass Company, Fibreboard Corporation, and Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc. Appeal of FIBREBOARD CORPORATION (at 3922). Joseph and Joanne WASSON v. KEENE CORPORATION, Fibreboard Corporation, Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Raymark Industries, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 2, 1994 · in the opinion
Atkinson v. Celotex Corp. (1994)
…for Combustion Engineering. Edwin A. Ellinghausen III, David L. Tolin, for Fibreboard Corporation. Louis G. Lemle for Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. James L. Pate, Ben Louis Mayeaux, for M.H. Detrick Co. [\386] Kenneth R. Spears…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · November 12, 1990 · in the opinion
Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1990)
…transfer of an insolvent defendant's non-cash settlement obligation to the non-settling defendants under the present circumstances follows the ruling in McNair v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 890 F.2d 753 (5th Cir.1989).