20 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 21, 1999
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and the jury verdicts for the three plaintiffs, and ordered judgment entered for Owens Corning and Owens-Illinois because the evidence did not prove a civil conspiracy. Parallel…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 11, 1998
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
The appellate court affirmed the jury verdicts for plaintiffs Bicknell, Thacker and McClure against Owens Corning Fiberglas and (in McClure) Owens-Illinois, and remanded only so the trial court could apply setoffs for settlements with other…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 14, 1997 · in the opinion
Van Winkle v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1997)
…Administrator of the Estate of Donald Van Winkle, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Appellee (Illinois Central Railroad Company, Defendant). Mark HICKS as Special Administrator of the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · April 29, 1999 · in the opinion
Spain v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1999)
…Corporation, Raymark Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Fibreboard Corporation, a Delaware [\529] Corporation, Owens-Illinois, Inc., f/k/a Owens-Illinois Glass Company, an Ohio Corporation, Flinkote Company, a Delaware Corporation, and A.E. Staley Company…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · March 30, 1990
Leng v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…liability counts against Celotex and the other defendants, refusing to adopt market share liability in Illinois asbestos cases. Illinois does not recognize market share liability in asbestos cases, so a plaintiff who cannot identify the manufacturers…
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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 · Illinois Supreme Court · November 23, 1994 · in the opinion
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994)
…Jayant W. Tambe, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, for amicus curiae Owens-Illinois, Inc. Chief Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court: The plaintiff, Samuel Adcock, as executor of Hubert Adcock, Jr.'s estate, brought an…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 17, 1999 · in the opinion
Burgess v. Abex Corp. (1999)
…Ill.2d 574, 235 Ill.Dec. 943, 706 N.E.2d 498 (1998), this court affirmed judgments entered against Owens Corning Fiberglas Corporation (OCF) and Owens-Illinois, Inc. (OI), on a conspiracy theory. We recited the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · November 4, 1994 · in the opinion
US Gypsum Co. v. Admiral Ins. Co. (1994)
…the reasons discussed below, we conclude that that cause should be characterized as the continuing process of the manufacture and sale of asbestos containing products. On point again is Owens-Illinois Inc. v. United Insurance Co…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 27, 1995
Hefner v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1995)
The appellate court affirmed the Madison County trial court's denial of Owens-Corning Fiberglas's motion to reconsider transfer to Massac County for forum non conveniens, so the plaintiff kept his chosen forum, and remanded…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 14, 1990
Owens Corning Fiberglas v. Ind. Comm'n (1990)
…Charlotte Hammond, against Owens Corning Fiberglas and denied Owens Corning credit for her loss of consortium recovery. Under section 7 of the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, a widow has an independent cause of action for death…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 3, 1996
Barry v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1996)
The appellate court affirmed the judgment on the jury's roughly $12.3 million verdict (reduced to about $11 million for settlements) for the Barry estate against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, rejecting OCF's challenges to the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · November 18, 1994
Keystone Steel and Wire Co. v. Costa (1994)
The appellate court affirmed the judgment against Owens-Corning (including the new trial limited to wrongful death damages) and affirmed the denial of Keystone Steel & Wire's petitions for subpoena-compliance expenses, so the plaintiff and…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 30, 1993
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1993)
Affirmed the judgment on the $213,811.79 verdict for the plaintiff executor against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, upholding denial of OCF's motion to dismiss the civil conspiracy counts and the default judgment on liability entered…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · November 18, 1994
Costa v. Dresser Industries, Inc. (1994)
…the widow's claims of trial error and her sanctions request. Expert testimony from a witness disclosed months before trial was properly admitted under Illinois Rule 220 even though the plaintiff never served Rule 220 interrogatories…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · March 14, 1997
Risch v. Paul J. Krez Co. (1997)
…the 1960s and 1970s through their employment. Both were diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1992 and later died. They testified that Krez employees installed Owens Corning Kaylo insulation at their jobsites. The estates alleged Krez designed, manufactured…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 29, 1999 · in the opinion
Westinghouse Airbrake Co. v. Indus. Com'n (1999)
…Inc., 213 Ill. App.3d 6, 157 Ill.Dec. 251, 572 N.E.2d 320 (1991); Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Industrial Comm'n, 198 Ill.App.3d 605, 144 Ill.Dec. 714, 555 N.E…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · September 21, 1992 · in the opinion
Thacker v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1992)
…St. Louis, Mo., for amicus curiae Owens-Corning Fiberglas. Cooney and Conway, Chicago (Kathy Byrne, of counsel), for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers. Justice CLARK delivered the opinion of the court: On March 1, 1982, plaintiff…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 27, 1992 · in the opinion
Betts v. Manville Personal Injury Trust (1992)
…Wedron moved to dismiss the third-party action on the ground that plaintiffs' exposure to their products predates the March 1, 1978, effective date of the Illinois Contribution Act (Act) (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 70…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 19, 1994 · in the opinion
Hartman v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1994)
…of money, such as this case, all of the retired judges in Illinois may not only supplement their pensions, but they may also be given the continued opportunity to pontificate to a captive audience, the poor…