17 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”
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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 · 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 · 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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 22, 1996
Egan v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. (1996)
The appeals court affirmed the bench-trial judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglass (OCF), including the $350,000 general damages award and the set-off ruling, and rejected the plaintiff's request for punitive damages under Ohio…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
Three consolidated suits in Cook County, Illinois, were brought by the estates and survivors of three people who had been exposed to asbestos insulation products. Two died of peritoneal mesothelioma and one of bronchogenic carcinoma, and the…
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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 · Delaware Superior Court · August 23, 1983
Nutt v. AC & S., Inc. (1983)
Four consolidated Delaware cases were brought by present or former asbestos workers and their wives. The defendants were two employers, du Pont and Haveg, and a group of asbestos product suppliers. The workers claimed the defendants misled them…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 19, 1997
Potter v. Patterson (1997)
The widow and children of John Potter sued Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) and many other companies and individuals. They alleged he died of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure over many years of work for NOPSI. The plaintiffs settled with MSA alone…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 27, 1988
Blazek v. Nicolet, Inc. (1988)
Concetta Blazek sued a group of asbestos and asbestos product companies after her husband, Kenneth Blazek, died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos in 1951 and 1952 while working at the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company in Cicero,…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 9, 1999 · in the opinion
Harder v. ACandS (1999)
…were not permanent additions to or betterment of real property before or during their attachment to duct work and boilers. See Buttz v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 557 N.W.2d 90, 91-92 (Iowa 1996)…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · January 30, 1986 · in the opinion
Lohrmann v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1986)
…Industries, Inc., formerly known as Union Asbestos & Rubber Company, an Illinois Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc., an Ohio Corporation; Owens-Illinois Glass Company, an Ohio Corporation; Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc.…
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Company document · WARD Documents · December 16, 1981
Armstrong World Industries' Answers to Interrogatories in Evilsizor v. Fibreboard Corporation (1981)
…1966 to 1969: "Always wear a U.S. approved respirator when spraying." A packaging attachment says Armstrong sold Kaylo in cartons bearing the Owens-Corning Fiberglas name, and 85% magnesia and calcium silicate pipe covering made…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · December 2, 2004 · in the opinion
Holdampf v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2004)
…from secondary exposure to asbestos. The Port Authority also cites the Tenth Circuit's decision in Rohrbaugh v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (965 F2d 844 \[10th Cir 1992) to support its argument that a plaintiff must…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Common Pleas · March 22, 1984
English v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
Virginia English, as executrix of her husband Thomas English's estate, sued Johns-Manville and other companies. She claimed he died of pleural mesothelioma caused by inhaling asbestos fibers from the defendants' products. The defendants said the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 11, 2000
In re Patenaude (2000)
Three groups of plaintiffs from New York, Georgia and Oregon sued asbestos defendants for personal injury and wrongful death. Their injuries ranged from mesothelioma to non-malignant pleural disease, and many had died. Their federal cases had been…
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Court case · New York Court of Appeals · October 27, 2005
Holdampf v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Matter of Nyc Asbestos Litig, 2005)
…lost. Under New York law, an employer or landowner owes no duty of care to an employee's household member allegedly injured by asbestos dust brought home on work clothes, because no relationship between the defendant…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · January 10, 2002 · in the opinion
Harris v. AC & S., Inc. (2002)
…who worked on the roof and other parts of the Open Hearth." (Serna R. 30). As a mason, he repaired and maintained furnaces and ovens used to make steel. On March 18, 1998, Dr. Mark K…