251 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 9 of 13
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · May 13, 2021 · in the opinion
Toy v. Warren Pumps (In re Asbestos, 2021)
…a substantial factor in causing Mr. Toy's injury and death. See McIndoe, 817 F.3d at 1174 (applying maritime law); see also Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 16 Cal. 4th 953, 968-69 (Cal. 1997)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas · June 21, 2021 · in the opinion
Petrie v. Novelis Corporation (2021)
…evidence of a quantified defendant-specific dose sufficient to show a doubling of the risk of contracting mesothelioma is not required. See ECF 58 at 16 (citing Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 941 P.2d 1203…
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Court case · Connecticut Appellate Court · October 13, 2021 · in the opinion
Poce v. O & G Industries, Inc. (2021)
…some injury to body tissue occurs on the inhalation of asbestos fibers and that once lodged, the fibers pose an increased likelihood of causing or contributing to disease. Id., citing Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. United Ins…
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Blog · 2024
Feds: Empty Office Space May Contain Asbestos
Exposure alert The federal government owns vacant office space and other real estate across the country. According to the Government Accountability Office, more than two-thirds of these properties may be laced with asbestos. Asbestos Removal…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 9, 2024
Caligiuri v. AO Smith Corp. (2024)
…establish that its product could not have contributed to the plaintiff's injury; competing expert causation evidence raises a question of fact that precludes summary judgment. Causation; Product Identification; Expert Testimony scraping and cleaning pizza ovens
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · March 6, 2025
Kirby v. David Fabricators OF NY, Inc. (2025)
…restaurants from the 1960s to the 1980s and alleges he developed mesothelioma from asbestos coming from transite stone boards that the defendant supplied and that were associated with pizza ovens made by Bakers Pride Oven Company…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 25, 2024
Savianeso v. Aerco Intl., Inc. (2024)
…Pride met that burden and plaintiff's expert, who did not quantify the secondhand exposure, did not raise a factual issue. Causation; Expert Testimony; Take-Home Exposure brother of a worker who used Bakers Pride ovens
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos containing materials in schools of Rome and surrounding area (Italy)
…vinyl floor tiles. Forty also had friable ACM, such as boiler insulation, linings of laboratory ovens and centrifuges, and Bunsen burner gauze mats. Crocidolite with chrysotile was found in about 80% of roofing samples, and vinyl…
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Court case · Iowa Court of Appeals · May 8, 2024 · in the opinion
Beverage v. Alcoa, Inc. (2024)
Under this specific application, "a land possessor owes a duty of reasonable care to entrants" in two ways applicable to this case. Restatement (Third) § 51. First, through "conduct by the land possessor that creates risks to…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 18, 2021 · in the opinion
Kriz v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2021)
In opposition to Armstrong's motion, Plaintiff argues that a product manufacturer like Armstrong owes innocent persons injured from its defective product, like decedent, a clear duty to warn under New York law, especially in "take…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · January 4, 2023
Shellenberger v. Kreider Farms (2023)
…Superior Court reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment for Kreider Farms (the employers) and remanded for further proceedings, in favor of the Shellenberger estate. An employer owes an employee, as a business invitee…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · February 15, 2022
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2022)
…as employer of an independent contractor. Under Pennsylvania law, a landowner owes no duty to an independent contractor's employee for a danger the contractor knows of, and the retained-control and peculiar-risk exceptions did…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 20, 2021
Khosravan v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (2021)
…defendants, holding they owed no duty of care to Khosravan, and awarded respondents their costs on appeal. A defendant owes no duty to protect workers from asbestos at premises it did not own, possess or control…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Induction of Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Activity and Consequent Pro-oxidant Reactions in Human Macrophages Exposed to Crocidolite Asbestos
Asbestos is the main causative agent of malignant pleural mesothelioma. The variety known as crocidolite (blue asbestos) owns the highest pathogenic potential, due to the dimensions of its fibers as well as to its content of…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 10, 2021
Smith v. AC Light. & Elec. Supplies, LLC (2021)
…200 and common-law negligence, a premises owner or contractor owes a duty to provide a safe workplace only if it had authority to supervise or control the activity causing the injury; evidence that it oversaw…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · June 30, 2021
Georgia Power Company v. Campbell (2021)
…on the statute of repose, and remanded for further proceedings. An owner owes no duty to a contractor's employees only if it relinquished possession and did not control the work, and contract terms showing retained…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · January 24, 2023
Buckholtz v. American Optical Corporation (2023)
…it remanded to vacate the judgment against Zidell Explorations and for a new trial. A company that owns a ship being dismantled and retains the right to control the work can owe a duty to the…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 28, 2020
Sabetian v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (2020)
…favor of the Exxon defendants. A defendant that did not own, possess or control the premises owes no premises or negligence duty to workers there, and a guarantee in a contract not intended to benefit the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · August 5, 2021
Wineland v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2021)
…factor, with evidence of the amount and duration of exposure. A manufacturer owes a duty to warn about third-party replacement parts only if its product requires the part to function as intended. Causation; Product Identification…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Functionalized Scintillating Nanotubes for Simultaneous Radio- and Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer
…of delivered doses comparable to the one employed in clinical treatments. This opens the possibility of effectively reducing the therapy exposure and consequently undesired collateral effects due to prolonged exposure of patients to high-energy radiation.